January 28, 2024

“15th Affair” by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro – The Husband's Baggage

 

15th Affair by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Book cover)

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James Patterson and Maxine Paetro have developed a partnership rarely seen in the literary world, having penned over two dozen books together in their Women's Murder Club Thriller series, and still going strong. In the fifteenth entry, titled 15th Affair, we follow Lindsay Boxer as she searches for her missing husband while also trying to uncover the truth behind his ties to a mysterious blonde woman who disappeared from a brutal murder scene.

October 6, 2023

“The Mysterious Case of Rudolph Diesel” by Douglas Brunt – The Genius Vanishes

 

The Mysterious Case of Rudolph Diesel by Douglas Brunt (Book cover)

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Douglas Brunt veered off the path well-known to him and chose to dabble in non-fiction when he recently published The Mysterious Case of Rudolph Diesel. In it, he points his attention to the often overlooked inventor of engine by the same name, giving us a window into his complicated life, leading us all the way to its known conclusion, which leaves all too much room for speculation.

September 6, 2023

“The Only One Left” by Riley Sager – The Ageless Chant of Evil

 

The Only One Left by Riley Sager (Book cover)

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Riley Sager (pen name used by Todd Ritter) has been pumping out one sensational mystery thriller after the next, and his latest one, titled The Only One Left, captured my attention with its curious premise. The story follows Kit McDeere, a home-health aide who takes a job working for a stroke-scarred seventy-year-old woman with an infamous past. One night, the woman makes Kit an offer: she promises to tell her everything about the strange and sensational murder case which happened over fifty years ago, the one she was at the very centre of as the prime suspect.

July 19, 2023

“Private Berlin” by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan – Bowels of the Slaughterhouse

 

Private Berlin by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan (Book cover)

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James Patterson and Mark Sullivan have become an inseparable duo in the realm of thrillers a while ago, most notably with the Private series. One of the more prominent works is the fifth book, Private Berlin, and it follows the investigation into a slaughterhouse which holds many dark secrets from the East German days, a slaughterhouse where one of Private's agents is found murdered.

June 9, 2023

“Quantum Radio” by A.G. Riddle – The Hazard of Knowledge

 

Quantum Radio by A.G. Riddle (Book cover)

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A.G. Riddle is , for good reason, one of the foremost science-fiction authors of the modern age, his mind not only rife with original ideas, but also extremely well-versed in expressing them. In his latest novel, titled Quantum Radio, he follows Dr. Tyson Klein, a CERN scientist working with the Large Hadron Collider, on the verge of making a nigh-unimaginable discovery, the truth of which threatens to radically change the future.

April 19, 2023

“14th Deadly Sin” by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro – Wave of Hatred

 

14th Deadly Sin by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Book cover)

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James Patterson and Maxine Paetro are parents to one of the more recognizable and celebrated detective series with the Women's Murder Club, being over twenty books in and showing no intention of stopping. In the fourteenth installment, titled 14th Deadly Sin, they send Lindsay Boxer and the rest of the club chasing after a pair of maniacs holding San Francisco hostage through their sheer brutality. What's worse, none are above suspicion, not even the police themselves.

March 23, 2023

“Hell Divers VI: Allegiance” by Nicholas Sansbury Smith – The First Country

 

Hell Divers VI: Allegiance by Nicholas Sansbury Smith (Book cover)

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Nicholas Sansbury Smith has taken his divers a very long way from their humble beginning in the skies, having them fight for an unlikely oasis on Earth in the fifth installment. In the sixth one, Hell Divers VI: Allegiance, we follow Xavier as he tries to reign as the reluctant king of the islands, all while a new group of divers tries to locate other survivors on Earth, before hostile android defectors wipe them all out.

February 16, 2023

“IBM and the Holocaust” by Edwin Black – Alliance of Savages

 

IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black (Book cover)

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Edwin Black has become a celebrated thorn in the sides of many corporate and governmental entities, going to great lengths to pull their darkest secrets out from the shadows. In IBM and the Holocaust, he chronicles in minute detail how IBM co-planned and co-organized the Holocaust for the Nazis, and the unsavoury alliance which blossomed between the two.

January 6, 2023

“Hell Divers V: Captives” by Nicholas Sansbury Smith – Paradise in Abaddon

 

Hell Divers V: Captives by Nicholas Sansbury Smith (Book cover)

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Nicholas Sansbury Smith has taken us on a rather original and captivating adventure with The Hell Divers series, telling the story of a humanity stuck living in the skies on giant airships following World War III. In the fifth book, titled Hell Divers V: Captives, we follow our heroes as they try and reclaim a paradise on Earth, unaffected by radiation, but populated exclusively by cannibals.

November 25, 2022

“Unlucky 13” by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro – The Club in Danger

 

Unlucky 13 by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Book cover)

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James Patterson and Maxine Paetro have managed to develop a partnership few authors would even consider, having written over twenty books together, and still counting. Their Women's Murder Club Thriller series has earned them plenty of accolades, and in the thirteenth entry, titled Unlucky 13, they send their protagonists on a chase after a psychotic killer with nothing to lose intent on stalking them.

October 24, 2022

“Portals” by Douglas E. Richards – The Bane of Being Human

 

Portals by Douglas E. Richards (Book cover)

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Douglas E. Richards is one of the few authors with the remarkable talent of being able to pull the reader into his outlandish concepts and have them turning one page after the next, and Portals is a perfect example of that. It follows the story of Noah Harris and Ashley Finn, two field agents for an organization meant to protect humanity from itself, and the only ones standing between Earth and its invasion by humans from a different planet, connected by a mysterious portal.

October 7, 2022

“The Bullet That Missed” by Richard Osman – Decade-Old Phantoms

 

The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman (Book cover)

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Richard Osman has a real knack for plotting unusual story lines in his Thursday Murder Club Mystery series, and in the third book, titled The Bullet That Missed, things don't get much more unusual than this. The club sees a decade-old cold case risen from its slumber, leading them on an investigation involving a local news legend and a murder without a body, all while being stalked and hunted by a mysterious foe.