Imagine a world where you woke up every day unable to recognize where you were, who you were with, or even your own face in the mirror. This is the terror facing Christine in S.J. Watson’s “Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel.” Christine’s mind...

"Freeway Close" by Susan Calhoun is a gritty, realistic and well-developed book relating the literal 'birth' of a serial killer in Los Angeles. "Freeway Close" revolves around three main characters - the killer, Cathy Buchanan, a housewife struggling to hold her marriage together, and Lorraine...

I learned a lot about legal ethics from reading the cautionary tale called "Disbarment" by Jerry Sonenblick. I am interested in the process of taking the bar exam as a good friend of mine has two sons who are just starting out in the law....

"Life of a Double Agent" by Kenneth J. Kerr brings us into Jim Hunt's Junior year at college. While he was having that Junior year the CIA recruited him to monitor the activities of radicals on the college campus. Once he was graduated he went...

“The Last Keeper’s Daughter” by Rebecca Trogner is a genre breaker that seeps into fantasy, humor, romance, adventure, and epic thriller. Lily has always been unique and suffered from severe social disorders at best without medical explanation. The frail young woman receives more than a...

“Reaper Two-Six: Year 6 Act of Redemption” by Robert A. Grand is a part of a series, but it is quite capable of standing on its own. The author’s personal background has given him a measure of authenticity which shines throughout this engrossing thriller. Reaper...

Jeffrey Royer’s “The Mercy Project” is a well-planned, suspenseful, political thriller that doesn’t cut corners on detail. Henry Pendelton is the carefree college-aged son of famous Senator Daniel Pendelton and his family has been prestigious D.C. area socialites and political figures for years. One surprise...

By mixing together the world of finance, organized crime and savants, Marc Brem has come up with one thrilling potboiler in ‘Rain Fund’. Owned by Olivier van Dijk, this hedge fund is raining money on the investors; the savants use their mathematical genius to predict...

At the height of the Cold War, a beautiful Soviet nuclear engineer devised a plan code named Rustler. Zelta Rensky is a Russian Jewish woman who rises in the ranks in spite of her past. She is Russia's resident expert on nuclear submarines and submarine...

It starts out with two seemingly unrelated events. First, 19 year old Amanda Hofer, stoned on prescription drugs, is involved in a traffic accident that kills a mother and her young son, a child never seen by his father who is serving in Afghanistan. Then...