Cold Fear

By |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

Child Zero

By |2022-04-28T20:13:00+00:00May 2nd, 2022|Mysterious Book Report, Thriller|

Child Zero Mysterious Book Report No. 488 by John Dwaine McKenna Child Zero, (Mulholland, $28.00, 352 pages, ISBN 978-0-316-29512-3), by Chris Holm, is one scary-assed novel.  Written by a real scientist, it predicts an all-too-possible future where—due to global warming—an ancient virus is released into the atmosphere from the thawing Arctic permafrost.   It mutates in combination with ever-present bacterium to create a virulent strain of viruses which are impervious

Breathless

By |2022-04-21T21:07:39+00:00April 25th, 2022|Mysterious Book Report, Thriller|

Breathless Mysterious Book Report No. 487 by John Dwaine McKenna The Himalayan Mountains of central Asia are known as “the roof of the world,” for that is where all of the tallest mountains on Earth are located.  Higher than the Andes of South America or the Alps of Europe, the Himalayas are the mightiest of their kind, and, as such, they’re an irresistible challenge to a certain type of

The Echo Man

By |2022-04-25T19:28:36+00:00April 11th, 2022|Mysterious Book Report, Thriller|

The Echo Man Mysterious Book Report No. 485 by John Dwaine McKenna The Echo Man, (Crooked Lane, $26.99, 326 pages, ISBN 978-1-64385-991-0), the debut of author Sam Holland, is fascinating, frightening and utterly compelling reading . . . but you’d better be able to handle a lot of gore if you decide to give it a go . . . because it’s about serial killers.  Real ones.  And their

Woman On Fire

By |2022-04-25T19:29:14+00:00April 4th, 2022|Mysterious Book Report, Thriller|

Woman On Fire Mysterious Book Report No. 484 by John Dwaine McKenna Stolen art and strong women are the central themes of Lisa Barr’s exciting new thriller that rockets back and forth between now and here, then and there, Europe and the U.S. of A . . . . while at the same time educating, entertaining and fascinating her readers with a thriller about the wholesale pillaging of Europe’s

The Heights

By |2022-04-25T19:29:43+00:00March 28th, 2022|Mysterious Book Report, Thriller|

The Heights Mysterious Book Report No. 483 by John Dwaine McKenna The Heights, (Atria, PB, $17.00, 416 pages, ISBN 978-1-9821-7412-5), by internationally acclaimed and best-selling British author Louise Candlish, puts the reader right into the mind of a controlling, obsessed, and grieving woman named Ellen Saint . . . whose only son, nineteen year-old Lucas, was killed in an automobile accident.  The car was being driven by his best

Undermoney

By |2022-04-25T19:30:17+00:00March 21st, 2022|Mysterious Book Report, Spy/Thriller, Thriller|

Undermoney Mysterious Book Report No. 482 by John Dwaine McKenna Undermoney, (Scribner, $30.00, 484 pages, ISBN 978-1-9821-5602-2), by Jay Newman, is a complex, fascinating and frightening novel of politics, warped patriotism, ambition and ultra amounts of wealth and money by a writer who is infinitely familiar with the subject because he’s spent 45 years swimming among the sharks of high finance, hedge funds and edgy government officials. The word

We Are All The Same In The Dark

By |2022-04-25T19:36:44+00:00December 30th, 2021|Mysterious Book Report, Thriller|

We Are All The Same In The Dark Mysterious Book Report No. 414 by John Dwaine McKenna In one of the most highly anticipated novels of the 2020 summer reading season, international best-selling thriller writer Julia Heaberlin grabs the reader’s attention in her first sentence; “It takes about eight to ten hours to hand-dig a grave, more if you was doing it in the dark.”, and never lets go.

The Stolen Hours

By |2022-04-25T19:37:14+00:00December 20th, 2021|Mysterious Book Report, Thriller|

The Stolen Hours Mysterious Book Report No. 470 by John Dwaine McKenna The Stolen Hours, (Mulholland Books, $28.00, 311 pages, ISBN 978-0-316-70349-9), by Allen Eskens, is a riveting and twisted law and order thriller featuring three determined, strong women that’s a tour de force of psychology—as well as an intense look into the mind of a cunning rapist and stone cold serial killer.  His name is Gavin Spencer, and

At First Light

By |2021-12-03T20:35:47+00:00December 6th, 2021|Mysterious Book Report, Thriller|

At First Light Mysterious Book Report No. 468 by John Dwaine McKenna Award-winning and best-selling author—as well as personal friend—Barbara Nickless, has just launched her latest book featuring a pair of all new characters in a high intensity thriller that will take your breath away. At First Light, (Thomas & Mercer, $15.95, PB, 400 pages, ISBN 970-1-5420-26-41-3), by Barbara Nickless, introduces a female character named Addie Bisset, who’s a

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