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It's not for nothing that this book holds the title for the best thriller ever! I recently picked up Red Dragon, the first book I've ever read by Thomas Harris - after years of being a Hannibal fan solely through film and TV - and I loved it. It's dark, it's gritty, it's short! -... Continue Reading →
Haha! I messed up big time! Ok, so that's a weird way to start a book review, I know. Let me start over: Confession by Michael Cordell is a legal thriller following lawyer Thane Banning on his latest case: defending a young sex worker who's accused of murdering a high profile football coach. The kicker?... Continue Reading →
Whoa! I don't know what I expected, but it definitely wasn't this. I've been fascinated by Hannibal Lecter since I was a young teen and first saw Silence Of The Lambs sometime in the early 2000s. Since then I've seen every movie, adaption, remake TV series I've ever come across based on the incredible characters... Continue Reading →
Amisha Goel over at The Reading Palette has just written a fantastic review of my first thriller, The Consequence of Loyalty. You'll check it out, won't you? The Consequence of Loyalty - Book Review, by The Reading Palette When Amisha first reached out to me, I was mesmerized by the beautiful blog she keeps over... Continue Reading →
I'm a curator now!
Corruption, corruption, corruption... What people won't do for a taste of power. Cocaine by Pascal Engman starts off like any good crime thriller: with a dead body found under mysterious circumstances—in this case, an unidentiable man off the coast of Sweden. Shortly thereafter, the police find a downed cessna, the local community is flooded with... Continue Reading →
Review of The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson, reviewed by Trey Stone
Book review of Dirty by Robert White written by Trey Stone
I jumped into this head first, blind as a bat, and came out on the other side with a new thriller author on my list of greats. Damn, what a book! The plot: newly minted US Marshall Andrea Oliver is sent to Longbill Beach to protect a judge who's been receiving death threats. Simple enough,... Continue Reading →
What an incredible book! This is the kind of thriller people talk about around the water cooler! Right from the start I was hooked. Everything pulled me in, the plot, the pacing, the characters, the voices... I loved everything about how this is written and how the story slowly builds. The plot is simple: Saffron... Continue Reading →
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