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The Last Paladin

By John|2022-07-07T18:52:02+00:00July 11th, 2022|Historical/Thriller, Mysterious Book Report|

The Last Paladin Mysterious Book Report No. 497 by John Dwaine McKenna The Last Paladin, (St. Martin’s, $28.99, 288 pages, ISBN 978-1-250-27986-6), by P.T. Deutermann, is a superb, battle-filled World War II adventure that takes place aboard the USS Holland, a lone destroyer escort on patrol in the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific Ocean during the summer of 1944—just as the two greatest armadas of the era are

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Havana Highwire

By John|2022-07-03T17:56:25+00:00July 4th, 2022|Crime Fiction, Murder Mystery, Mysterious Book Report|

Havana Highwire Mysterious Book Report No. 497 By John Dwaine McKenna Havana Highwire, (Severn, $28.99, 224 pages, ISBN 978-0-7278-5073-7), by John Keyse-Walker, takes place in 1957—a couple years before Fidel Castro came to town and imposed a whole new kind of tyranny, serfdom, and perpetual poverty on the island—at a time Cuba was in the thrall of a dictator named Fulgencio Batista . . . who’d gone into business

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Backstory

By John|2022-06-23T19:56:10+00:00June 27th, 2022|Mysterious Book Report, psychological|

Backstory Mysterious Book Report No. 496 by John Dwaine McKenna Backstory, (Oceanview Publishing, $27.95, 336 pages, ISBN 978-1-60809-490-5), by William L. Meyers, is a tale of psychological terror that begins when a man is attacked in an alley, where his head is repeatedly slammed face first into a brick wall, leaving him bloody, disoriented and without memory of who he is . . . or where. When he comes

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Death At Fort Devens

By John|2022-06-20T22:58:53+00:00June 20th, 2022|Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report|

Death At Fort Devens Mysterious Book Report No. 495 by John Dwaine McKenna Death At Fort Devens, (Severn, $28.99, 224 pages, ISBN 978-1-4483-0766-1), by Peter Colt, is a good old-fashioned private-eye yarn that features a wise-cracking and tough as a yellow toenail . . . hard-drinking, hard-fisted, and hard-living—as well as a hard-up—ex-Boston cop and former Green Beret named Andy Roark . . . a character who kicks ass

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The Old Man

By John|2022-06-13T02:29:14+00:00June 13th, 2022|Crime Fiction, Hard-boiled/Noir, Mysterious Book Report|

Just in case you’re not one of the many viewers of the trailer, the FX television network is kicking off a new series on June 16, 2022, starring Jeff Bridges in the title role, of the following Thomas Perry novel which we reviewed in April of 2017. We thought you might enjoy a quick review. The Old Man Mysterious Book Report No. 284 by John Dwaine McKenna The

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The Recruit

By John|2022-06-09T18:54:23+00:00June 13th, 2022|Murder Mystery, Mysterious Book Report|

The Recruit Mysterious Book Report No. 494 by John Dwaine McKenna The Recruit, (Random House, $28.00, 416pages, ISBN 978-0-399-59212-6), by Alan Drew, takes place in 1987, during the urbanization of southern California amidst the influx of Vietnamese, Central and South Americans as well as other groups from India, Asia, Africa and the Middle East who were all fleeing war, pestilence, persecution and corruption in their native countries. It was

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Cold Fear

By John|2022-06-13T02:23:30+00:00June 6th, 2022|Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report, Thriller|

Cold Fear Mysterious Book Report No. 493 by John Dwaine McKenna Cold Fear, (Bantam, $28.00, 432 pages, ISBN 978-0-593-35631-9), by Brandon Webb and John David Mann, is the second installment, (after 2021’s Steel Fear, about the hunt for a serial killer aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier: MBR 457), and it’s the perfect book to kick-off your summer reading season. The novel begins with an incognito and AWOL Navy

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Deep Water

By John|2022-05-26T18:48:11+00:00May 30th, 2022|Murder Mystery, Mysterious Book Report|

Deep Water Mysterious Book Report No. 492 by John Dwaine McKenna Deep Water, (Scout, $28.00, 320 pages, ISBN 978-1-9821-7036-3), by Emma Bamford is our second first-time author in the past two weeks and features a young, almost newly married British couple who’ve sold all of their possessions and bought a fixer-upper boat, spent most of their funds outfitting, repairing and provisioning it . . . then setting out to

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The Handler

By John|2022-05-17T20:29:11+00:00May 23rd, 2022|Mysterious Book Report, Spy/Thriller|

The Handler Mysterious Book Report No. 491 by John Dwaine McKenna The Handler, (Penguin Random House, $27.00, 448 pages, ISBN 978-0-5934-4163-3), by M.P. Woodward, is written by a debut author whose real-life experiences as a Naval Intelligence Officer working with U.S. Special Forces, CIA and NSA clandestine operations through-out the Middle East, Persian Gulf and Far East, makes Mr. Woodward exquisitely well qualified to write about the covert doings

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Every Cloak Rolled in Blood

By John|2022-05-16T19:56:20+00:00May 16th, 2022|Murder Mystery, Mysterious Book Report, Paranormal|

Every Cloak Rolled In Blood Mysterious Book Report No. 490 by John Dwaine McKenna Every Cloak Rolled In Blood, (Simon & Schuster, $27.00, 288 pages ISBN 978-1-9821-9659-2), by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master James Lee Burke, is his 50th novel and most unique ever . . . it’s autobiographical in nature, a heart-wrenching lament in honor of his daughter Pamala, who, in August 2020, died unexpectedly while still

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