Category Archives: Thriller

The Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen (Review)

Released September 2008 (Ballantine) * 368 pages * ISBN 13: 9780345497628

I should know better than to start one of Tess Gerritsen’s books right before bed. I do it anyway because there is something delicious about being snuggled under a comforter with the wind howling outside, everyone else fast asleep, and being sucked into a world [...]

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Capitol Reflections by Jonathan Javitt (Review)

Release October 2008 (The Story Plant) * 380 pages * ISBN 13: 9780981608716
Capitol Reflections: A Thriller by Jonathan Javitt is a story of friendship as well as investigation. Gwen Maulder is an FDA scientist whose best friend Marci, a young lawyer, dies suddenly and spectacularly of a seizure while in court. Everyone else dismisses it [...]

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First Daughter by Eric van Lustbader (Review)

Released August 2008 (Forge) * 400 pages * ISBN 13: 9780765321701
First Daughter by Eric van Lustbader is a political thriller that may hit too close to home for some. Jack McClure is one of the Bureau’s top ATF agents, despite finding reading a continual nemesis due to his dyslexia. When the president-elect’s daughter, Alli, is [...]

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Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner (Review)

Released July 2008 (Bantam) * 368 pages * ISBN 13: 9780553804331

Kimberley Quincy is an FBI Special Agent. Someone is killing prostitutes according to a pregnant prostitute who insists she’ll only talk to Quincy. A predator who uses spiders in very nasty ways. The only problem is there are no bodies, no missing persons reported. Despite [...]

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The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper (Review)

Released August 2008 (Doubleday) * 336 pages * ISBN 13: 9780385663694

Patrick Rush is on a downward spiral. His wife has died, leaving him to raise their son alone. He is systematically being demoted at the newspaper where he works as the arts section becomes the entertainment section and he finds himself being the TV critic [...]

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