Review: Huntress/FBI series by Alexandra Sokoloff

Title: Huntress Moon
Series: Huntress/FBI
Author: Alexandra Sokoloff
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: January 27, 2015
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
ASIN: B00NKTTDH4

FBI Special Agent Matthew Roarke is closing in on a bust of a major criminal organization in San Francisco when he witnesses an undercover member of his team killed right in front of him on a busy street, an accident Roarke can’t believe is coincidental. His suspicions put him on the trail of a mysterious young woman who appears to have been present at each scene of a years-long string of “accidents” and murders, and who may well be that most rare of killers: a female serial.

Roarke’s hunt for her takes him across three states...while in a small coastal town, a young father and his five-year old son, both wounded from a recent divorce, encounter a lost and compelling young woman on the beach and strike up an unlikely friendship without realizing how deadly she may be.

As Roarke uncovers the shocking truth of her background, he realizes she is on a mission of her own, and must race to capture her before more blood is shed.

Title: Blood Moon
Series: Huntress/FBI
Author: Alexandra Sokoloff
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: February 24, 2015
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
ASIN: B00NPEDYN8

Twenty-five years have passed since a savage killer terrorized California, massacring three ordinary families before disappearing without a trace.

The haunted child who was the only surviving victim of his rampage is now wanted by the FBI for brutal crimes of her own, and Special Agent Matthew Roarke is on an interstate manhunt for her, despite his conflicted sympathies for her history and motives.

But when his search for her unearths evidence of new family slayings, the dangerous woman Roarke seeks - and wants - may be his only hope of preventing another bloodbath.

Title: Cold Moon
Series: Huntress/FBI
Author: Alexandra Sokoloff
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: May 5, 2015
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
ASIN: B00N43K3DY

The hunt for mass murderer Cara Lindstrom is over. FBI Special Agent Matthew Roarke has been working for this moment: the capture of a killer who savagely hunts the worst of humanity. But Roarke remains traumatized by his own near-death at the hands of the serial killer who slaughtered Cara’s family…and haunted by the enigmatic woman who saved his life.

Then the sixteen-year-old prostitute who witnessed Cara’s most recent murder goes missing, and suddenly pimps are turning up dead on the streets of San Francisco, killed with an MO eerily similar to Cara’s handiwork.

Is a new killer on the loose with a mission even more deadly than hers? In the pulse-pounding third Huntress/FBI Thrillers book, Roarke will have to go on the hunt…and every woman he meets, even those closest to him, may prove deadly.

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Review: Ghost Flight by Bear Grylls

Title: Ghost Flight
Series: Will Jaeger
Author: Bear Grylls
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: March 24, 2016
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409156834
ISBN-13: 9781409156833

A mother and child savagely abducted from a snow-swept mountainside.

A loyal soldier tortured and executed on a remote Scottish moor.

A lost warplane discovered in the heart of the Amazon jungle, harbouring a secret of earth-shattering evil.

A desperate race to defeat a terrifying conspiracy emanating from the darkest days of Nazi Germany.

One thread unites them all.
Only one man can unravel it.

Will Jaeger.
The hunter.

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Review: Hči lune by Desa Muck

Title: Hči lune
Author: Desa Muck

Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 2005
Publisher: Mladinska knjiga (Žepnice)
ISBN: 8611172078
ISBN-13: 9788611172071

Kako kruto je življenje pri štirinajstih!

Lučka je v prekrasnega Krištofa, Krištof je v kokoško Diano, Bine se Lučki zdi popoln bedak, saj ji kvari vsake počitnice, Erika pa...

Bo luna izpolnila obljubo in nesojeni princeski Luciani Asteriji poslala viteza na belem konju, da jo reši iz objema mračnih sil?

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Review: Dominus by Tom Fox

Title: Dominus
Author: Tom Fox

Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: October 8, 2015
Publisher: Headline
ISBN: 147222616X
ISBN-13: 9781472226167

The Vatican Cathedral is packed to the rafters as Pope Gregory XVII leads the congregation in mass. A cloaked stranger steps suddenly and fearlessly towards the altar and commands the wheelchair-bound Pope to stand.

He does.

The miracle stops the world in its tracks. Who is this stranger?

More miraculous events follow and as the Vatican retreats and closes its doors to the world, journalist Alexander Trecchio and police officer Gabriella Fierro set out to find an explanation that might calm an increasingly hysterical nation.

Because the question on everyone's lips is what the stranger's arrival might mean...and whether it finally heralds the End of Days.

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Review: The Lost Testament by James Becker

Title: The Lost Testament
Series: Chris Bronson
Author: James Becker
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: November 7, 2013
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 0857500910
ISBN-13: 9780857500915

For thousands of years we guarded it. But now it has been found. This could be the end - for us; for our organisation; for the world. You must destroy it, and those who have taken it.

An ancient object is discovered in a Cairo souk. Hours later, the market trader who sold it is tortured to death. As the bodies begin to pile up, a request for help is sent to British Museum historian Angela Lewis.

Angela travels to Spain with her ex-husband, undercover police officer Chris Bronson. There they discover the key to the greatest secret in the history of Christianity.

Their only problem is deciphering it before they are brutally murdered like those before them...

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Review: Hidden Order by Brad Thor

Title: Hidden Order
Series: Scot Harvath
Author: Brad Thor
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: May 20, 2014
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 1476717109
ISBN-13: 9781476717104

The most secretive organization in America operates without any accountability to the American people. Hiding in the shadows, pretending to be part of the United States government, its power is beyond measure. Control of this organization has just been lost and the future of the nation thrust into peril.

When the five candidates being considered to head this mysterious agency suddenly go missing—and soon turn up as murder victims—covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is summoned to Washington and set loose on the most dangerous chase ever to play out on American soil. With the United States on the verge of collapse, Harvath must untangle a web of conspiracies going back to the 1700s and head off the greatest threat America has ever seen.

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Review: The Kill List by Frederick Forsyth

Title: The Kill List
Author: Frederick Forsyth

Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: August 5, 2014
Publisher: Signet
ISBN: 0451467639
ISBN-13: 9780451467638

In northern Virginia, a secret agency named TOSA (Technical Operations Support Activity) has one mission: to track, find, and kill those so dangerous to the United States that they are on a short, very close-held document known as the Kill List.

Now a new name has been added: a terrorist of frightening effectiveness called the Preacher, who radicalizes young Muslims living abroad to carry out assassinations. Unfortunately for him, one of his targets is a retired Marine general, whose son is TOSA’s top tracker of men.

The Preacher has made it personal—and now the hunt is on….

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Review: The Titanic Enigma by Tom West

Title: The Titanic Enigma
Author: Tom West

Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: June 20, 2013
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 1447210336
ISBN-13: 9781447210337

When the Titanic sank, it took a secret with it...

In the vast expanse of the Atlantic, 375 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, a ship’s crew film an extraordinary event: the ocean, covered with millions of floating fish, bubbles as though boiling. Then an enormous whale roars through the water and crashes down, dead, onto the surface. Some 13,000ft beneath—at these precise coordinates—lies the wreck of the Titanic.

Within twenty-four hours, the footage has become a global phenomenon. Commander Jerry Derham, charged with investigating the incident, rushes to see marine archaeologists Kate Wetherall and Lou Bates. The one-time couple specialize in deep-sea-diving and the scientific study of shipwrecks. Jerry needs to get the pair down to the ocean floor—fast.

None of them are prepared for what they find there. Someone on the Titanic had been keeping a secret: one that cost lives. A secret that has remained trapped beneath the ocean for a hundred years. And now there are those who would kill again to get hold of what one man died for in 1912...

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Review: Inferno by Dan Brown

Title: Inferno
Series: Robert Langdon
Author: Dan Brown
Read copy: eBook
Published: May 14, 2013
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385537867
ISBN-13: 9780385537865

'Seek and ye shall find.'

With these words echoing in his head, eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings.

A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city of Florence. Only Langdon's knowledge of hidden passageways and ancient secrets that lie behind its historic facade can save them from the clutches of their unknown pursuers.

With only a few lines from Dante's dark and epic masterpiece, The Inferno, to guide them, they must decipher a sequence of codes buried deep within some of the most celebrated artefacts of the Renaissance - sculptures, paintings, buildings - to find the answers to a puzzle which may, or may not, help them save the world from a terrifying threat.

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Review: Bela past by Bogdan Novak

Title: Bela past
Author: Bogdan Novak
Series: Zvesti prijatelji
Read copy: eBook
Published: 2008
Publisher: Večerova založba Ruslica
ISBN: 9616559907
ISBN-13: 9789616559904

Zima. Zvesti prijatelji se odločijo za turno smuko v Dolini Triglavskih jezer. Na poti čez Komarčo začne vedno huje snežiti in nekateri so prepričani, da zato, ker je Luka vrgel kepo verna jezero, kar naj bi prineslo nesrečo. V snežnem metežu se skušajo prebiti do koče pri Triglavskih jezerih, kar pa ni najbolj enostavno. Ko že skoraj obupajo, jih reši njihov zvesti spremljevalec Hani in jih pripelje do koče. Tam so ujeti tri dni, saj gorski reševalci zaradi plazov ne morejo do njih. Medtem se med mladimi porajaja prijateljstva in simpatije, grize jih ljubosumnost, postajajo tekmovalni A po mnogih zapletih in težavah še naprej ostajajo zvesti prijatelji ...

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Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Series: Millennium
Author: Stieg Larsson
Read copy: Paperback
Published: June 29, 2010
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307454541
ISBN-13: 9780307454546

An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.

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Review: Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves by Matthew Reilly

Title: Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves
Series: Shane Schofield
Author: Matthew Reilly
Read copy: eBook
Published: October 12, 2011
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
ISBN: 1416577688
ISBN-13: 9781416577683

At an abandoned Soviet base in the Arctic,a battle to save all life on Earth is about to begin...

THE SECRET BASE

It is a top-secret base known only as Dragon Island. A long-forgotten relic of the Cold War, it houses a weapon of terrible destructive force, a weapon that has just been re-activated...

AN ARMY OF MURDERERS

When Dragon Island is seized by a brutal terrorist force calling itself the Army of Thieves, the fate of the world suddenly hangs in the balance. But there are no crack units close enough to get to Dragon in time to stop the Army setting off the weapon.

ONE SMALL TEAM

Except, that is, for a small equipment-testing team up in the Arctic led by a Marine captain named Schofield, call-sign SCARECROW. It's not a strike team; just a handful of Marines and civilians. It's not equipped to attack a fortified island held by a small army.But it will go in anyway, because someone has to.

THE ULTIMATE HERO IS BACK, FACING THE ULTIMATE ARMY OF VILLAINS.

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