Mysterious Book Report Archives - Page 9 of 63

Thunder Road

By John|2022-04-25T19:32:07+00:00March 7th, 2022|Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report|

Thunder Road Mysterious Book Report No. 480 by John Dwaine McKenna Thunder Road, (CamCat Books, $24.99, 384 pages, ISBN 978-0-7443-0497-8), the debut effort of author Colin Holmes, is a genre-jumping, rock-n-roll kick-ass, action-adventure novel that begins with some cattle rustling and a gun-fight, then roars off into a private-eye crime novel before ending with a bit of sci-fi for good measure. It begins in 1947, on a ranch near

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Vital Lies

By John|2022-04-25T19:32:40+00:00February 28th, 2022|Mysterious Book Report, Spy/Thriller|

Vital Lies Mysterious Book Report No. 479 by John Dwaine McKenna Vital Lies, (Thomas & Mercer, $24.95, 404 pages, ISBN 978-1-5420-3104-2), by award-winning screen-writer, producer and author Daniel Pyne is a spy-thriller that begins with a flashback to December 3, 1990. In East Berlin, at the Hohenschönhausen Prison, a young twenty year-old American woman named Aubrey Sentro stumbles toward freedom after being imprisoned and tortured for more than a

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The Runaway

By John|2022-04-25T19:33:29+00:00February 21st, 2022|Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report|

The Runaway Mysterious Book Report No. 478 by John Dwaine McKenna Master of hard-boiled crime fiction and award-winning writer Nick Petrie takes bad-assery to a whole new dimension in his newest (the seventh) novel featuring a PTSD-stricken U.S. Marine veteran named Peter Ash. The Runaway, (Putnam, $27.00, 400 pages, ISBN 978-0-525-53550-8), begins in rural Montana, where an orphaned, neglected, victimized and beautiful teenaged girl named Helene Johansen impulsively ditches

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Sierra Six

By John|2022-02-03T21:12:02+00:00February 7th, 2022|Mysterious Book Report, Spy/Thriller|

Sierra Six Mysterious Book Report No. 476 by John Dwaine McKenna Best-selling author, and a favorite of ours, Mark Greaney, has hit it out of the park with his newest “Gray Man” novel. Number eleven in the series, it’s a blockbuster in which the high octane action starts immediately and never stops. Sierra Six, (Berkley Press, $28.00, 528 pages, ISBN 978-0-593-098999-8), features Court Gentry, the aforementioned Gray Man—who’s a

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City of The Dead

By John|2022-04-25T19:34:31+00:00January 31st, 2022|Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report|

City of the Dead Mysterious Book Report No. 475 by John Dwaine McKenna City of the Dead, (Ballantine, $28.99, 336 pages, ISBN 978-0-525-61858-4), by Jonathan Kellerman is his 37th book featuring the duo of LAPD consulting psychologist Alex Delaware and Los Angeles Police Department Detective Milo Sturgis—now a Lieutenant, and an openly gay homicide investigator—whose solve rate is “close to 100 percent.” The novel opens with the body of

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The Matchmaker : A Spy in Berlin

By John|2022-01-25T18:45:57+00:00January 24th, 2022|Mysterious Book Report, Spy/Thriller|

The Matchmaker: A Spy In Berlin Mysterious Book Report No. 474 by John Dwaine McKenna The Matchmaker: A Spy in Berlin, (Pegasus Crime, $25.99, 352 pages, ISBN 978-1-643313-865-7), by Paul Vidich, opens in 1989 and life, as she knew it, is about to change forever for an American woman named Anne Simpson. She’s living in West Berlin, speaks several languages, works as a translator at the Joint Allied Refugee

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The Yards

By John|2022-04-25T19:35:03+00:00January 17th, 2022|Hard-boiled/Noir, Mysterious Book Report|

The Yards Mysterious Book Report No. 473 by John Dwaine McKenna Told from three alternating points of view, The Yards, (Mysterious Press, $25.95, 308 pages, ISBN 978-1-61316-235-4), by A.F. Carter, is hard-boiled crime fiction at it’s best. It takes place in the imaginary mid-western city of Baxter, where the last of four meat-packing plants is on the skids and failing. It’s closure will leave the already troubled area where

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Find Me

By John|2022-04-25T19:35:31+00:00January 10th, 2022|Crime Fiction, Murder Mystery, Mysterious Book Report|

Find Me Mysterious Book Report No. 472 by John Dwaine McKenna Hope Miller is the name adopted by a young woman who doesn’t know her real identity . . . or where she came from. She was found fifteen years ago, in a wrecked and stolen SUV, unconscious and severely injured. The woman who discovered the accident in a remote area just outside of Hopewell, New Jersey, is Lyndsay

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Anthem

By John|2022-04-25T19:36:01+00:00January 3rd, 2022|Dystopian, Mysterious Book Report|

Anthem Mysterious Book Report No. 471 by John Dwaine McKenna Anthem, (Grand Central Publishing, $29.00, 448 pages, ISBN 978-1-5387-1151-4), by award-winning writer and TV producer Noah Hawley, is going to be one of the most talked about books of the new year. The novel is thought-provoking, controversial, compelling and dystopian, beginning with its opening sentence: “The summer our children began to kill themselves was the hottest on record.” And that’s

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Legacy Report 16-Hudson’s Kill

By John|2022-12-27T21:26:32+00:00January 2nd, 2022|Historical/Thriller, Mysterious Book Report|

Just in case you’re wondering, we’ll be re-running some of our best and most popular book reviews every other week from now on. They will be described as our Legacy Mysterious Book Reports. Send us a quick request if you have a favorite that you’d like to see again and we’ll do our best to re-publish it. Legacy Mysterious Book Report No. 16 Published February 10, 2020 Hudson’s Kill

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