Bellevue – Robin Cook’s lame attempt at a supernatural thriller My Rating – 2.5 out of 5 Plot Summary of Bellevue Robin Cook meets Stephen King….. Well, not quite, in fact not at all! Unfortunately, over the years, Robin Cook’s mastery over the Medical thriller genre has been slipping. The author who shook the world…
Book Review – The Horsewoman by James Patterson and Mike Lupica – A Charming Read My Rating – 4 out of 5 Plot Summary (Storyline) – The Horsewoman From the master of the page-turning thrillers – James Patterson – comes this sports drama as his first offering of the new year. Co-authoring with Mike Lupica…
Book Review – Serpentine by Jonathan Kellerman – Absorbing Narrative My Rating – 3.5 out of 5 Plot Summary (Storyline) – Serpentine Admittedly, my first Jonathan Kellerman, and it certainly won’t be my last! This year has been a year of discovery for me, particularly new authors. Some on their debut, some seasoned but I…
Book Review – Falling by T. J. Newman – Tantalizing Thriller My Rating – 4 out of 5 Plot Summary – Falling This book will give you the chills, of the fatalistic kind – where you wonder ‘What if this happened to me?’ and a cold shiver runs down your spine. The premise is frighteningly…
Book Review – The Cellist – Outstanding Thriller My Rating – 4 out of 5 Plot Summary – The Cellist The broad categorization of the Gabriel Allon series as thrillers is a little too broad, they are Spy Thrillers a la James Bond, without the fancy and mostly ridiculous gizmos. They can mostly be read…
Book Review of False Witness by Karin Slaughter – Exquisite Read My Rating – 4 out of 5 Plot Summary – False Witness The book starts off with a story thread that the book blurb seems unrelated to – A child, his hunk of a father and the child’s babysitter. Tragic incidents unfurl which then seemingly have no…
Book Review – The New Girl – Gabriel Allon # 19 – Irresistible Thriller My Rating 4 out of 5 Plot Summary – The New Girl I stumbled upon Gabriel Allon and Daniel Silva sometime in 2017, when my daughter received the “House of Spies” as a prize for academic achievements from her school. I…
Book Review of The Maidens by Alex Michaelides – Breathtaking Suspense My Rating – 3.5 out of 5 Plot Summary – The Maidens I sometimes hold it half a sinTo put in words the grief I feel:For words, like Nature, half revealAnd half conceal the Soul within. Lord Alfred Tennyson quoted in The Maidens The…
Book Review – The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave – Edge Of The Seat Thriller My Rating – 4 out of 5 Plot Summary – The Last Thing He Told Me When I picked up this novel, I wasn’t sure what I was getting into. Would the book live up to the…
Book Review – Choppy Water by Stuart Woods – Mundane Thriller My Rating – 3 out of 5 Plot Summary – Choppy Water This is 2020’s Stone Barrington installment, number 54 at that! There are many who’ve never heard of Stuart Woods or his main protagonist Stone Barrington, so here’s a small recap – Stone…
Book Review – The Rooster Bar – John Grisham My Rating : 3.5 out of 5 Plot Summary – The Rooster Bar Growing up as angsty teenagers, facing an uncertain future out of the parental umbrella, it is easy to be fooled by the lure of professional courses – what with the glitzy ads, smiling…