A Pointed Death is a riveting read. The strong female personality in the person of Nola Billingsley provided mystery, action and wit in one neat little package. The story is set in San Francisco and describes the city so beautifully that one is literally transported...

Aimee Reardon is just eight years old when she witnesses the brutal murder and burial of her mother by her father, Luther. She has the presence to telephone for help from the police as her father digs her mother's grave while demanding that Aimee play...

Gerard Le Caillec is the counterfeit consul, just one of many disguises he has held in his career in the French Foreign Intelligence Service. Quiet, unassuming and (to his superiors) utterly expendable, Gerard struggles for promotion. He is handed an excellent opportunity to make or...

Private Investigator Lance Carter lives in Philadelphia and is a former Navy Seal. Although he is a tough guy who can handle himself, he seems to run into trouble at every turn. As things go along, one case he is working on runs into another...

"American Fever" by Peter Hall is a very well-written book about a pandemic virus that threatens civilization as we know it. It is told through a 225-day blog by a writer known only as "Count Blogula" and the reader only knows the characters through the...

John Hunter has served time in a Florida jail for a crime he didn't commit. Now, he is out of jail and looking for vengeance. One problem with this is that the people he seeks out for doing him in are wealthy, connected, and have...

This book was an edge of your seat thriller; the kind that you read until your eyes burn, the type that makes you ignore everyone else around you until you finish the last page. The plot of this novel is just as twisted and convoluted...

What would you do if you had a secret...a secret that could help you and animals alike live a long healthy life? Would you be willing to share it, or guard it with your very life? This is what Jude Marrock is out to do...protect...

Even though "Nemesis" has been translated from its original Norwegian, the story comes through brilliantly as author Jo Nesbo has created a thriller that transcends nationality. Police Detective Harry Hole is an alcoholic but make no mistake, he solves cases even though he uses off-beat...

"Kill Switch" by Neal Baer and Jonathan Greene is one of those thrillers that keep you guessing right to the end. Written by former producers of Law & Order SVU, the book shows that they have managed to bring that about in their first novel....