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…
Category: Contemporary
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…
The Wanderers
Title: The Wanderers Author: Meg Howrey Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Pub. Date: 14, March 2017 Astronauts Helen, Yoshi, and Sergei are training for the first Prime Space Mars mission. It is interesting but occasionally stressful for them and their families. Apply external stimuli and observe the internal workings of complicated people. That is it….
All That’s Left to Tell
Title: All That’s Left To Tell Author: Daniel Lowe Publisher: Flatiron Books Pub. Date: 14February 2017 Genre: Psychological Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Literary Fiction This book is not about intrigue or terrorism, it is a story of humans and the power of stories. Marc, an American held hostage in Pakistan, is a man exposed,…
Fatal Option
Title: Fatal Option Author: Chris Beakey Publisher: Post Hill Press Pub. Date: 21 February 2017 Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Recommended, Fiction Hang on to your seats, people! This is a fast-paced wild ride from the very first page. It would be difficult to unfold the plot without giving some serious spoilers, which I do not…
The Pain Eater
Title: The Pain Eater Author: Beth Goobie Published: Second Story Press Pub. Date: 13 September 2016 Genre: Contemporary Fiction, YA Maddie Malone has been a train wreck since that terrible day last March. She tries to control her nightmare pain so it does not consume her, but the only method she has found…
The Girl From the Sea
Title: The Girl From the Sea Author: Shalini Boland Publisher: Adrenalin Books Pub. Date: 9 June 2016 Genre: Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Mystery, YA Mia washes up on a beach. She cannot remember who she is or what happened to her. After she is identified and begins to resume her supposed life, she begins having…
Everything You Want Me To Be
Title: Everything You Want Me To Be Author: Mindy Mejia Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books Pub. Date: 3 January 2017 Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Contemporary, YA Question: How many secrets can be exposed during an investigation into a young girl’s murder? Answer: As many as it takes to make a gripping and satisfying mystery….
All Our Wrong Todays
Title: All Our Wrong Todays Author: Elan Mastai Publisher: Dutton Pub. Date: 7 February 2017 Genre: Science Fiction, recommended This is the what-if-I-could-go-back-and-fix-it story you probably never imagined. It is also time travel as raw as the naked heart–especially once it goes soooo wrong. The characters are people who live on the page,…
Carousel Court
Title: Carousel Court Author: Joe McGinniss Jr. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 2 August 2016 Genre: General Fiction Okay. I finally finished reading it after putting it down twelve…yep, twelve…times. This is a story of misery and dissatisfaction, hopelessness and worthlessness, with drugs and sex. Everyone is pretty and unhappy. Blah blah…
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