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The Bullet Train

By John|2021-08-03T21:04:31+00:00August 9th, 2021|Mysterious Book Report, Thriller|

Bullet Train Mysterious Book Report No. 459 by John Dwaine McKenna Just published—and soon to be released as a major motion picture starring bonny Brad Pitt himself—Bullet Train, (Overlook, $28.00, 432 pages, ISBN 978-1-419-75633-7) by Kotaro Isaka, (translated from the Japanese by Sam Malissa), is a high-energy action and drama-filled robbery, kidnapping and murder mystery combined with a venomous snake creep show . . . told from multiple

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The Basel Killings

By John|2021-07-29T20:29:17+00:00August 2nd, 2021|Murder Mystery, Mysterious Book Report|

The Basel Killings Mysterious Book Report No. 458 by John Dwaine McKenna The Basel Killings (Bitter Lemon Press, PB, 268 pages, $15.95, ISBN 978-1-913394-54-7) by Hansjörg Schneider was the winner of the Friedrich Glauser Prize, Germany’s most prestigious crime fiction award. The novel begins with a pair of murders when an “old vagabond” named Hardy is killed on a park bench in the city of Basel, and a ‘lady

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Steel Fear

By John|2021-07-15T20:28:57+00:00July 26th, 2021|Murder Mystery, Mysterious Book Report, Thriller|

Steel Fear Mysterious Book Report No. 457 by John Dwaine McKenna Try and imagine being 12,000 miles away from home, aboard a 6,000 person naval fighting ship in a war zone, where there is activity, stress, grueling and dangerous work that never slows down or stops . . . then add to that heat, stress, cramped quarters, poor morale and an arrogant, detached and incompetent Captain . .

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Dead By Dawn

By John|2021-07-15T20:24:19+00:00July 19th, 2021|Murder Mystery, Mysterious Book Report|

Dead By Dawn Mysterious Book Report No. 456 by John Dwaine McKenna Just in time for the hottest days of the summer, comes a searing new novel by Edgar finalist Paul Doiron that features a Maine Game Warden named Mike Bowditch who’s fighting for his life in the midst of an arctic-like sub-freezing winter night, trapped on a remote part of the Androscoggin River and pursued by a gang

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Special Mysterious Book Report No. 9

By John|2021-07-06T19:25:51+00:00July 12th, 2021|Essays and Articles, Mysterious Book Report|

Our Point of View Special Mysterious Book Report No. 9 by John Dwaine McKenna When we began writing the Mysterious Book Report a little over ten years ago, its purpose was to encourage reading. It’s always been our belief that all of us have the right to read anything in print and then make our own decisions about its veracity, credibility or worth. Now, in what we’re beginning

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Special Mysterious Book Report No. 8

By John|2021-07-06T19:26:28+00:00July 5th, 2021|Essays and Articles, Mysterious Book Report|

Our Point of View Special Mysterious Book Report No. 8 by John Dwaine McKenna When we began writing the Mysterious Book Report a little over ten years ago, its purpose was to encourage reading. It’s always been our belief that all of us have the right to read anything in print and then make our own decisions about its veracity, credibility or worth. Now, in what we’re beginning

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Black Ice

By John|2021-06-29T19:45:49+00:00June 28th, 2021|Murder Mystery, Mysterious Book Report|

Black Ice Mysterious Book Report No. 455 by John Dwaine McKenna Black Ice, (Scarlet, $25.95, 400 pages, ISBN 978-1-61316-222-4), written by Carin Gerhardsen, and translated from the Swedish by Ian Giles, takes place on Gotland, a small island located in the Baltic Sea, off the southeast coast of Sweden. Told in alternating points-of-view by different participants, the novel begins in January of 2014, when a man dies a terrible

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Suburban Dicks

By John|2021-06-17T19:23:42+00:00June 21st, 2021|Murder Mystery, Mysterious Book Report|

Suburban Dicks Mysterious Book Report No. 454 John Dwaine McKenna After teaming up and co-creating the sensational comicbook superhero known as Deadpool, author Fabian Nicieza has turned his many talents to writing crime fiction, and authored an unconventional first novel that touches upon many of the hot button social and political issues that are currently driving our national discourse, alienating friends and families . . . as well as

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Widespread Panic

By John|2021-06-10T19:25:09+00:00June 14th, 2021|Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report, Paranormal|

Widespread Panic Mysterious Book Report No. 453 by John Dwaine McKenna In a departure of sorts from his usual crime thrillers, master wordsmith and MWA Grand Master James Ellroy takes a wiiiiiiiiild, wacky and wonked out trip down the paranormal rabbit hole, based on the schemes of a notorious real-life Hollywood fixer, PI and bent cop named Fred Otash. Hot off the presses, (released June 15, 2021) Widespread Panic,

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City of Fallen Angels

By John|2021-06-03T18:50:30+00:00June 7th, 2021|Hard-boiled/Noir, Mysterious Book Report|

City of Fallen Angels Mysterious Book Report No. 452 by John Dwaine McKenna City of Fallen Angels, (Legend Press, PB, $15.95, 222 pages, ISBN 978-1-78955-981-1), by Paul Buchanan, is a debut novel that announces in a loud and clear voice, the arrival of a first-rate new author, writing in a classic noir tradition. The novel opens in Los Angeles. It’s August of 1962 and the city is sweltering in

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