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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Review: Shadow of the Forgotten by McKenna Grey & Everly Archard

Title: Shadow of the Forgotten
Series: Kyndall Family Thrillers
Author: McKenna Grey
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: January 24, 2018
Publisher: Cambron Press
ASIN: B078Z1DM8Z

A woman preyed upon by corruption. A man who won’t abandon her. An obsession that could destroy them both.

Heather York’s investigative career with the U.S. Marshals Service is neither glamorous nor dangerous, but when she’s thrust to the precipice of an unexpected threat, she has no choice but to wonder if she was meant to be collateral damage or the intended victim.

At a luxury lakeside lodge in Maine, Jordan Kyndall’s plans to celebrate the wedding of his college roommate go awry before the happy couple has a chance to say “I do.” Jordan anticipated a good time with old friends. Instead, he stumbles upon a gruesome scene in the picturesque woods of the woman whose lifeless body unexpectedly stirs his protective nature.

As the threat against them grows and the questions multiply, they’ll have to trust each other—and their feelings—if they’re going to survive.


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Monday, June 14, 2021

Review: The Dragon's Staircase by McKenna Grey & Everly Archard

Title: The Dragon's Staircase
Series: Kyndall Family Thrillers
Author: McKenna Grey
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: August 31, 2016
Publisher: Cambron Press
ASIN: B01GQ7OPT2

A woman haunted by her past.

FBI Agent Alexa Kyndall devoted eight years of her life to the search for justice, showing no mercy to the guilty and depraved. When she joins a special task force to bring down a serial killer, Alexa encounters the most unexpected criminal of her career.

A man willing to do whatever it takes to save her.

When a child witnesses a brutal slaying, Alexa's life becomes intertwined with Craig Pierson's, a man with his own haunted past. They join forces, only to discover they must put everything on the line in a pulse-pounding struggle to protect and survive.

A killer closing in.

Nestled in a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, The Dragon's Staircase is an intriguing, nonstop adventure that will keep readers enthralled from start to finish.


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Review: Blade of Death by McKenna Grey

Title: Blade of Death
Series: Kyndall Family Thrillers
Author: McKenna Grey
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: March 6, 2017
Publisher: Trappers Peak Publishing
ASIN: B073DH1T48

He'll strike when she least expects it.

Alexa Kyndall, an FBI special agent, has seen too many vile and unrepentant people escape justice. After coming off a harrowing kidnapping case, she visits her hometown of Stewart's Crossing while on a two-week vacation.


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Friday, June 4, 2021

Review: The Mummy Returns by Max Allan Collins

Title: The Mummy Returns
Series: The Mummy Chronicles
Author: Max Allan Collins
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: April 1, 2001
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0425179265
ISBN-13: 9780425179260

THE EVIL RETURNS
Hidden deep in the Egyptian desert, the mummified remains of Imhotep—accursed High Priest of Osiris—are uncovered once more by his loyal followers. Brought back to life, Imhotep sets out to find the legendary resting place of the very first pharaoh—the Scorpion King—and unleash an unstoppable army of evil upon the earth...

THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES
Nine years after their adventure in the desert, daring ex-legionnaire Rick O'Connell and archaeologist Evelyn Carnahan are happily married, with their precious son accompanying them on a dig in the desert. What they accidentally discover is the key to locating the Lost Oasis of Ahm Shere, where the undead army of Anubis awaits the order to destroy mankind, and the hideous Scorpion King awaits those who will challenge his power. Now, Rick and Evelyn find themselves in a deadly race against Imhotep and his sinister minions, with the fate of all humanity—and the life of their son—hanging in the balance...


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Thursday, June 3, 2021

Review: The Mummy by Max Allan Collins

Title: The Mummy
Series: The Mummy Chronicles
Author: Max Allan Collins
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: May 1, 1999
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0425169480
ISBN-13: 9780425169483

Rick O'Connell, dashing American and legionnaire, is in Egypt looking for a good time. His discovery of the Lost City of the Dead is a fluke—but to British librarian Evelyn Carnarvon it's the archaeological find of the century. The city contains all the treasures of Egypt and possibly the secrets of life and death. Leading Evelyn's expedition deep into the Sahara isn't exactly easy money, though, as Rick must dodge death traps, escape the jaws of man-eating beetles, and even duel a hook-handed mercenary. And just when he's caught his breath, a long ago evil returns from the grave—with a taste for human flesh...

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Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Sunday, March 7, 2021

Review: Mulan by Elizabeth Rudnick

Title: Mulan
Author: Elizabeth Rudnick

Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: September 29, 2020
Publisher: Disney Press
ASIN: B085WWTBKC

Curious and drawn to adventure, Mulan struggles to meet her village's traditional standards. After a disastrous visit with the Matchmaker, Mulan worries she will never be able to bring her family the honor they deserve. But when the Emperor decrees that one man from every family must join the army to face a dangerous threat to China, Mulan decides to disguise herself as a man take her father's place. Now Mulan must hide her secret as she trains alongside with fellow soldiers. With the enemy drawing nearer, will Mulan become the hero China needs?

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Thursday, June 14, 2018

Review: The President is Missing by James Patterson & Bill Clinton

Title: The President is Missing
Author: James Patterson , Bill Clinton

Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: June 4, 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company & Knopf
ASIN: B072F3MYRH

As the novel opens, a threat looms. Enemies are planning an attack of unprecedented scale on America. Uncertainty and fear grip Washington. There are whispers of cyberterror and espionage and a traitor in the cabinet. The President himself becomes a suspect, and then goes missing...

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Saturday, March 31, 2018

Review: While My Pretty One Sleeps by Mary Higgins Clark

Title: While My Pretty One Sleeps
Author: Mary Higgins Clark

Read copy: Paperback
Published: April 2, 1992
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 009968330X
ISBN-13: 9780099683308

Gossip columnist Ethel Lambston knew everything about everybody who was somebody, and her forthcoming book is about to expose the leading figures in the fashion world. So there are more than enough suspects when she is found murdered, her throat slashed.

For Neeve Kearny, the owner of an exclusive New York boutique, the killing of one of her best customers has eerie echos of another death that occurred many years earlier—the murder of her own mother. Are the two deaths linked? Suddenly Neeve is plunged into the mystery of Ethel's murder, following a trail that leads from the glittering pleasure palaces of New York's rich and beautiful to the Mafia underworld. And who is the killer who reckons that anyone as inquisitive as Neeve deserves to die?


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Friday, March 30, 2018

Review: Loves Music, Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark

Title: Loves Music, Loves to Dance
Author: Mary Higgins Clark

Read copy: Paperback
Published: April 2, 1992
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 0099685000
ISBN-13: 9780099685005

Erin and Darcy, answering personal ads as research for a TV show, discover a whole new New York sub-culture—adulterers, con men, the shy and frankly weird, all looking for love. And one man looking for something darker...

A serial killer who has just got away with murder for fifteen years, and has promised himself just two more...


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Thursday, March 1, 2018

Review: Hard Road by J.B. Turner

Title: Hard Road
Series: Jon Reznick
Author: J.B. Turner
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: August 16, 2016
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
ASIN: B01DYC10NG

Jon Reznick is a “ghost”: a black-ops specialist who takes his orders from shadowy handlers, and his salary from the US government. Still mourning the loss of his beloved wife on 9/11, he’s dispatched to carry out a high-level hit. Reznick knows only that it must look like suicide. It’s textbook.

But the target is not the man Reznick expected. The whole setup is wrong. In an instant the operation is compromised, and Reznick is on the run with the man he was sent to kill. A man wanted by the FBI, and by a mysterious terrorist organization hell-bent on bringing the United States to its knees. FBI Assistant Director Martha Meyerstein is determined to track him down, and to intercept whatever it is Reznick was sent to do.

When Reznick’s young daughter becomes a pawn in the game, he has to use more than his military training to stay one step ahead of those responsible. Meanwhile, he is the only person who knows the true extent of the threat to national security—and has the stealth and determination to stop it.


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Friday, January 5, 2018

Review: A Hero to Come Home To by Marilyn Pappano

Title: A Hero to Come Home To
Series: Tallgrass
Author: Marilyn Pappano
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: June 25, 2013
Publisher: Forever
ASIN: B00A2DAB7W

First he fought for his country. Now he'll fight for her.

Two years after losing her husband in Afghanistan, Carly Lowry has rebuilt her life in Tallgrass, Oklahoma. She has a job she loves teaching third grade and the best friends in the world: fellow military wives who understand what it means to love a man in uniform. She's comfortable and content...until she meets a ruggedly handsome stranger who rekindles desires Carly isn't quite sure she's ready to feel.

Staff Sergeant Dane Clark wanted to have a loving family, a twenty-year Army stint, and then a low-key civilian career. But the paratrooper's plans were derailed by a mission gone wrong. Struggling to adjust to his new life, he finds comfort in the wide open spaces of Tallgrass—and in the unexpected attention of sweet, lovely Carly. She is the one person who makes him believe life is worth living. But when Carly discovers he's been hiding the real reason he's come to Tallgrass, will Dane be able to convince her he is the hero she needs?


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Sunday, December 17, 2017

Review: Origin by Dan Brown

Title: Origin
Series: Robert Langdon
Author: Dan Brown
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: October 3, 2017
Publisher: Doubleday
ASIN: B01LY7FD0D

Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to attend a major announcement—the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure. Kirsch, who was one of Langdon’s first students at Harvard two decades earlier, is about to reveal an astonishing breakthrough...one that will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence.

As the event begins, Langdon and several hundred guests find themselves captivated by an utterly original presentation, which Langdon realizes will be far more controversial than he ever imagined. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch’s precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. Reeling and facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape Bilbao. With him is Ambra Vidal, the elegant museum director who worked with Kirsch to stage the provocative event. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch’s secret.

Navigating the dark corridors of hidden history and extreme religion, Langdon and Vidal must evade a tormented enemy whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain’s Royal Palace itself...and who will stop at nothing to silence Edmond Kirsch. On a trail marked by modern art and enigmatic symbols, Langdon and Vidal uncover clues that ultimately bring them face-to-face with Kirsch’s shocking discovery...and the breathtaking truth that has long eluded us.


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Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Review: Wildfire by Zane Grey

Title: Wildfire
Author: Zane Grey

Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: September 2, 2014
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ASIN: B00IUPCLDG

In a land of red cliffs and towering stone monuments, with the brooding Colorado River running through it, the unmatched Zane Gray sets his classic novel about a rancher, a blood feud, and a horse named...Wildfire

Bostic, a powerful rancher with a strong-willed 18-year-old daughter, has lost track of Lucy's wanderings. Caught up in a feud with two families, running his empire with an iron fist, Bostic does not know that Lucy has met a man who chased a horse called Wildfire for weeks and months, hundreds of miles, across a canyon and a river...As soon as Lin Sloan, Lucy's strange rider, joins Bostic and his men, they are confronted by a brazen horse thief and an explosion of violence long coming. While Lucy has been chasing her freedom, and riding the wild horse that can only be ridden when he chooses, someone has been hunting her. Bostic and Sloan see the danger, but it's too late: Lucy's fate is in the hands of a brutal killer—and only killing can set her free.


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Sunday, September 3, 2017

Review: White Face by Edgar Wallace

Title: White Face
Series: Detective Sgt. (Insp.) Elk
Author: Edgar Wallace
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: June 4, 2016
Publisher: Amazon
ASIN: B01GM6HWG0

Tidal Basin was the toughest, poorest, lowest section of London, and somewhere in it's dark alleys lurked the Devil of Tidal Basin, terrifying the inhabitants, puzzling the police.

What connection had the Devil with White Face, the lone bandit who roamed London unmolested? Superintendent Mason, one of the Yard's Big Five wanted to know, and what Superintendent Mason wanted to know he generally found out. Criminals knew him as "Sympathetic" Mason, because of his curious methods of cross-examination.

But not until Janice Harmon fell in love with a man who had written her from South Africa did the tangled skeins of international crime, murder and mystery begin to sort themselves out—and the strange story of a cold blooded killer come out into the light at last.


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Saturday, September 2, 2017