A Murder in Paris by Blake Pierce Diana Hope, 55, is still adjusting to her recent separation when she discovers her ex-husband has just proposed to a woman 30 years younger. Secretly hoping they would reunite, Diana is devastated. She realizes the time has come to reimagine life without him—in fact, to reimagine her life,…
Tag: Crime Fiction
Book Review | Pains and Penalties | Sarah Biglow
Pains and Penalties (A Geeks and Things Cozy Mystery #1) Small-town life brings big-city problems. Kalina Greystone’s return home to Ellesworth, MA to take over the family’s comic book shop brings back old friends and even older secrets. The death of her Great Aunt Agatha in plain sight at the annual Solstice Fair pushes…
Book Review | Killing Floor | Lee Child
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher 1) Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he’s about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.The cops arrest Reacher and the police…
Book Review | Gone Tomorrow | Lee Child
Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher 13) Suicide bombers are easy to spot.They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs.There are twelve things to look for.No one who has worked in law enforcement will ever forget them. New York City.The subway, two o’clock in the morning.Jack Reacher studies his fellow passengers.Four are OK.The fifth isn’t.The train…
Book Review | The Hard Way | Lee Child
The Hard Way (Jack Reacher 10) Jack Reacher is alone, the way he likes it. He watches a man cross a New York street and drive away in a Mercedes. The car contains $1 million of ransom money. Reacher’s job is to make sure it all turns out right – money paid, family safely…
Book Review | Persuader | Lee Child
Persuader (Jack Reacher 7) Never forgive, never forget. Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. But he has a burning desire to right wrongs – and rewrite his own agonizing past. Never apologize. Never explain. When Reacher witnesses a brutal kidnap attempt, he takes the law into his own hands….
Book Review | Tripwire | Lee Child
Tripwire (Jack Reacher 3) Digging swimming pools by hand in Key West, Florida, Jack Reacher is as tanned and as fit as he’s ever been. And what about the reappearance of a woman from Reacher’s own troubled past?Tripwire is a taut, nailbiting adventure which once again stars Lee Child’s irresistible hero, the maverick former…
Book Review | Echo Burning | Lee Child
Echo Burning: (Jack Reacher 5) Jack Reacher, adrift in the hellish heat of a Texas summer. Looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A woman stops, and offers a ride. She is young, rich and beautiful. But her husband’s in jail. When he comes out, he’s going to kill her. Her family’s…
Book Review | A Wanted Man | Lee Child
A Wanted Man: (Jack Reacher 17) When you’re as big and rough as Jack Reacher – and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose – it isn’t easy to hitch a ride in Nebraska. At last, he’s picked up by three strangers – two men and a woman. Within minutes it becomes clear…
Book Review | Deception Point | Dan Brown
Bad Luck And Trouble: (Jack Reacher 11) From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night…. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex–army investigators is being hunted down one by one…. And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher—soldier, cop, hero—is pulled…