In a remote, desolate area of New Mexico lies a compound so top secret that it wasn't even known about until an insider leaked information to the world. This was not just any government project. No, the workings inside this highly secure area was from...

Natalie Goldberg makes this comment about southern writers: “Often when a southerner reads, the members of the class look at each other, and you can hear them thinking, gee, I can't write like that. The power and force of the land is heard in the...

A megalomaniac with godlike delusions is destroying villages and killing people in Uganda. An American special forces team is sent in to eliminate the threat. The team is decimated when they encounter villagers gone mad and possessing super speed and strength. Colonel Jon Smith, part...

"Fallen" by Karin Slaughter is a fast paced thriller. I’ve been a fan of Slaughter for quite sometime. She has a unique way of presenting her characters. Sara Linton is a doctor and she worked closely with her deceased husband as a coroner. Slaughter has...

This s a review of the audio book, "Apocalypse Scenario 683: The Box" by Mira Grant. This story grew on me. This tale grabbed my attention and held it. My chief complaint is the length of the story. It left me wanting more. Ms...

"You Dog: The Owner’s Manual" by Dr Marty Becker and Gina Spadafori, audio format osing the right dog for your lifestyle. If you are going to be gone a lot you do not need a dependent breed. If you live a sedentary life you do...

Suicide Run When Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch and his partner Jerry Edgar are called to a scene, with a dead body, everybody thinks it is a routine suicide of a small time actress. But Bosch finds anomalies at the scene that won’t leave him alone....

Renee moved to Hollywood with aspirations of being an actress. When her mother is killed in a car accident, the inheritance sends Renee to the land of opportunity and she enters a beauty school in Burbank. A backup career is what she called it…just until...

Since Susan Morrow had always been her ex-husband Edward’s harshest critic, she was surprised when she received a box containing his manuscript. Eventually, she picks up the manuscript and begins reading. Quickly she becomes engrossed in the story of Tony Hastings. Tony’s story opens with...

"Christmas Even" A pawn shop owner suffering from repeated break-ins discovers what is at first assumed to be the dead body of the burglar still in his place of business. Harry Bosch, Los Angeles homicide detective, and his partner investigate and discover that things aren’t always...

Ex Marine and Iraq vet Spero Lucas works as an investigator for a Washington, D.C. defense attorney. He also has a side business finding lost items for people. Drug runner Anwan Hawkins, in jail awaiting trial, hires Lucas to find two shipments of marijuana stolen...

Mickey Haller is at it again! Reduced to representing foreclosure cases due to economic downturn (and defense clients having little to pay for a lawyer), he has found a lucrative niche. In fact, his team now has an office and has added an associate who...

"SMOKE AND BONE" is an amazing tale of blue haired Karou, a spirited seventeen-year old human girl that was adopted and raised by a group of monsters -- the chimaeras -- part human and part beast. Karou journeys into other realms in search of teeth...

Mickey Haller finds himself on the other side of the aisle in this suspenseful mystery of not just who-done-it but more of how Mickey is going to nail him! Asked to be the lead prosecutor on a trial that has already taken place once, Mickey...

"Now You See Her" by James Patterson and Michael Ledgewood is James Patteson at his best. Jeanine/Nina was a twenty one year old college student on spring break when she met Peter, a police officer. The handsome man appeared to be her rescuer. Upset and...

Harry Bosch is nearing retirement. He has 36 more months before he will have to leave. He and his partner are given a cold case to work on. While they are getting information on that one another case is dropped in their laps, one which...

"Zero Day" by David Baldacci is a bit unbelievable but still a thrill ride. Fans will have mixed feelings for Baldacci’s latest audiobook. Despite the over the top, exaggerated abilities of the main character, the way the author left the reader with no idea of...

"Shaq Uncut: My Story", by Shaquille O’Neal and Jackie MacMullan, is the story of the basketball great, Shaquille “Shaq” O’Neal, who was born on March 6, 1972, in a poor area of Newark, New Jersey. Shaq was raised by his mother, Lucille, and her husband,...

Grifting was just a way of life; it was a family trait, apparently. Lilly and her son, Roy, conceived when she was a child herself, are con artists. And they have skills. Lilly answers to the mob. Roy answers to nobody. He enjoys the lucrative...

Charlie Hardy has had a bad couple of years. Not only did he catch his wife cheating, but the Albanian mob tried to kill the family. In hiding and under the protection of the FBI, Charlie works as security--watching the homes of the wealthy while...