The Bone Hunger Mysterious Book Report No. 415 by John Dwaine McKenna All novelists are bright. That’s because writing is a craft that demands much, and promises nothing more than thousands of hours of solitary and challenging work, putting together what we hope will be a story with an engaging plot, interesting characters and a few surprises along the way that will entertain and involve our readers, maybe even
Clean Hands Mysterious Book Report No. 411 by John Dwaine McKenna High finance, billion dollar banks and a Wall Street law firm on the brink of disaster . . . combined with a talented fixer, a determined, urbane and experienced warrior woman known for her smooth style, velvet touch and iron fist . . . and you’ll have just a few of the elements of a recent thriller entitled:
Dear Child Mysterious Book Report No. 423 by John Dwaine McKenna A woman—who’s been kidnapped and held in a boarded-up hovel deep in some remote woods, while being forced to act as a wife to a strange and brutal man and a mother to his two small children—manages to overcome her captor and escape . . . “But the end of her ordeal is only the beginning of her
The Last Hunt Mysterious Book Report No. 404 by John Dwaine McKenna A series of fortunate events brought our attention this week, to an awesome crime fiction novelist and master of the thriller genre. His work is inspired, captivating and totally entertaining as he weaves a complex plot together in such an electrifying manner that the reader just can’t put the book down. If you’re craving an intricate, well-plotted
The Apollo Murders Mysterious Book Report No. 467 by John Dwaine McKenna The Apollo Murders, (Mulholland, $28.00, 480 pages, ISBN 978-0-316-26453-2), by Chris Hadfield, is an alternate history of the cancelled Apollo 18 moon mission. In the novel it takes place in 1973 and is re-imagined as a military reconnaissance mission to spy on a Soviet space station known as Alnaz. Alnaz is nothing more than an orbiting ‘eye
Broken Genius Mysterious Book Report No. 465 By John Dwaine McKenna Broken Genius, (Oceanview, $26.95, 336 pages, ISBN 978-1-60809-388-5) by Drew Murray features a protagonist named Will Parker. He’s a genius. A man who became fabulously rich in his 20s as the CEO of a world-class tech company, and walked away to become a special agent for the FBI’s cyber division. The reason? Parker suffers from guilt for a
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
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 . .
Northern Heist Mysterious Book Report No. 445 by John Dwaine McKenna Belfast, Northern Ireland, has for decades been one of the most contentious, strife-ridden and fought-over territories in the world . . . which makes it a great place to set an electrifying crime fiction and thriller novel. Northern Heist, (Melville House, $26.99, 269 pages, ISBN 978-1-61219-903-0) by Richard O’Rawe, takes place in 2004, when a former IRA heavyweight
Interview With The Author: Will Carver by John Dwaine McKenna Our interviewee today hails from Great Britain. His name is Will Carver and he’s a writer with the ability to pack more original ideas into a single paragraph than most of us are able to conjure up in an entire chapter . . . so with great pleasure, it’s my honor to introduce him to our Mysterious Book