Eric Olafson: Captain Black Velvet

Title: Eric Olafson: Captain Black Velvet Author: Vanessa Ravencroft Publisher: Inkitt Pub. Date: 24 July 2017 Series: Eric Olafson Genre: Sci-fi, Space Opera I have a weakness and last week I indulged it.   One morning I looked at my mound of literary fiction, YA, Mystery, Suspense, and Thriller titles in my TBR pile and…

Ill Will

Title: Ill Will Author: Dan Chaon Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub.Date: 7 March 2017 Genre: Psychological thriller, Literary Suspense, Crime, Horror, Contemporary   You know that chill you get when you walk into shadow? That is this book.   A cold dark truth emerges from beneath this twisted murder tale as the timeline of a man’s…

The Bone Witch

Title: The Bone Witch Author: Rin Chupeco Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Pub. Date: 7 March 2017 Genre: Fantasy, Magic, Necromancy, YA     This book is really two story-lines converging. In one, young Tea is learning to control her new magic without letting the darkness in. In the other, the Bard is recounting his meeting with…

Gone Without A Trace

Title: Gone Without A Trace Author: Mary Torjussen Publisher: Berkley Books Pub. Date: 18 April 2017 Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense   One day Hannah comes home to find her boyfriend gone– every trace of him erased from her life. No photos No Facebook posts. No text history. Her original belongings in the house returned to…

Sycamore

Title: Sycamore Author: Bryn Chancellor Publisher: Harper Pub. Date: 9 May 2017 Genre: Contemporary, Thriller, Suspense   This is not a love story. This is a tight, suspense filled, humanity revealing, cross-genre mystery thriller plus.   When newly unearthed bones (that just may belong to the long missing girl Jess Winters) are discovered in the…

The New Urban Crisis

Title: The New Urban Crisis Author: Richard Florida Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 11 April 2017 Genre: Nonfiction, Divisive Politics, Urban Issues, Global Commune Planning   First, I am going to say: Hey authors, readers are not stupid.   I am always mad when I think I am going to be reading an information packed…