Baldacci turns in another action-packed thriller, bringing back government assassin Will Robie to thrill us with his deadly skills (and to make us wonder what the hell he is doing killing people for the government!) This time, Baldacci gives us double the excitement by giving us a female Will Robie in the form of Jessica Reel, another government assassin who had trained with Robie, but who has apparently gone rogue and killed several American government agents, including the number two in the CIA. When Robie […]
Fatale: A murder/mystery with more murder and more mystery
It is raining. Darkly clad people under umbrellas at the funeral of Dominic Raines. One woman stands out, beautiful and dark. Our protagonist is immediately taken with her as she explains how her grandmother had a fling with the deceased – the godfather to our protagonist. This is the scene where Nicholas Lash meets Josephine. We meet these people just this day because this is the day Nicholas Lash’s life changes; people try to kill him at his Godfather’s house and Josephine appears to save […]
I Should Pay More Attention to Hype
Room was a big deal when it came out a couple of years ago. If you tend to stay current with popular fiction, you’ve probably heard of it. I saw this book on a “recommended” shelf at my local library, and I vaguely remembered the buzz about it. I had zero interest in it back then, so I’m not sure why I picked it up this time. The subject matter is just not appealing to me: the main characters are a woman kept captive for […]
Lincoln Lawyer Returns in Fine Courtroom Style
Connelly does what he does best, combining excellent courtroom drama with personal stories that go beneath the surface and bring his characters to life. Mickey Haller is still doing business out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, and his employees include an ex-wife, her new husband, a chauffeur who owes him favors, and a newly-hired young lawyer with ambition. Haller himself is still that odd mixture of half selfish and half heart-of-gold that makes him an interesting character—the reader keeps rooting […]
A Mind Puzzle of a Crime Thriller
I’ve been a long-time fan of Deaver’s well-executed serial killer novels starring his dynamic duo Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs. His next series with Kathryn Dance was less inspired, and when he wrote the Ian Fleming knockoff Carte Blanche, I was worried that the old Deaver magic had gone walkabout. So I was happy to learn that Deaver has re-discovered his creative flair for the original and the bizarre in The October List. Don’t get me wrong—the writing itself is not stellar and the characters […]
Abductions, Dionysian Orgies and Mummified Corpses Oh My!
We’re back in Rome, where Detective Nic Costa gets drawn into the case of a missing 16-year-old American girl whose mother insists she was abducted by a mysterious man on a motorcycle in front of a bunch of disinterested Carabinieri. While few at police headquarters take the mother seriously—the girl’s been gone less than a day, after all—Nic suspects that something more is going on. For one thing, the girl is the spitting image of a girl abducted 16 years earlier, whose mummified corpse […]
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