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by Anne Frasier My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon Page, Author Website Amazing thriller! Enjoyed it from beginning to end! A boy’s frozen body is found trapped in the ice of a Minneapolis lake. The horrifying discovery leads Detective Jude Fontaine and her partner, Uriah Ashby, to more bodies in the ice, all of twelve-year-old boys missing for twenty years. Then, in one of the worst blizzards the city has ever seen, a four-year-old is abandoned on Jude’s doorstep. The child can’t tell them where he’s from, who his parents are, or how he got there. He doesn’t even know his name. But in his unspoken language, Jude reads something horrifying—a connection to the dead boys. Now a four-year-old with no name may be the only key to a twenty-year-old, very cold case.
by B.J. Bourg My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon Page, Author Website Grabs you and doesn't let go! Clint, Susan and all the other characters make you want to pick up the next book in the series. Embattled former detective Clint Wolf is the newly appointed police chief for Mechant Loup, a small swampy town in southeast Louisiana. Usually a quiet town, the tranquility of the place is shattered when a human arm is found in the jowls of an alligator. Once it’s determined the arm belongs to a reputable business owner, the race is on to find the man and figure out what happened to him. Little does Clint know that solving the case could unearth a plot so evil it would go down as the worst event in Louisiana history . . . and he might not live to see it.
by Jeff Carson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon Page, Author Website Great prequel to a wonderful gritty series! After six tours in the Army special forces, David Wolf is finally back home in Rocky Points, Colorado, where he's in his third week of training for the Rocky Points PD. His survival instincts and fresh memories of military action are wreaking havoc on his chances of making a good impression, and when he screws up during his first week on patrol, everyone has written him off as hopeless--a dangerous kid without any self control. So when he thinks he sees trouble happening during a routine call, probie-Officer Wolf must decide if he can defy orders and trust the instincts that got him through six tours of death-defying military action, or if he's just seeing things again.
by Tim Tigner My rating: 2 of 5 stars Amazon Page, Author Website The premise was interesting and it started off well. Then it mellows out and plodded along till the end. The characters were interesting when first introduced but about half way through, I was no longer invested in them or the story. It was poorly developed. There’s a secret in Silicon Valley. A discovery. An invention. One so startling and surprisingly sinister that it needs to be kept—at any price. Tim Tigner takes a step back from his bestselling Kyle Achilles series to introduce Zachary Chase and Skylar Fawkes in a fresh standalone novel that’s bound to keep you glued and guessing. With secluded meetings, sudden disappearances and strange murders; secret agents, skillful assassins and sexy locations; The Price of Time is packed with fast-paced action and first-class intellectual intrigue. Propelling the thrills and perched at the middle of the mystery is one of humanity’s great questions: Would finding the Fountain of Youth be a blessing?
by Veronica Roth My rating: 2 of 5 stars Amazon Page, Author Website Its an interesting look at a what-if scenario. The story was slow, which was good for its length. If this had been a full-length novel, I would've stopped reading. Characters needed more development, they felt cold inside. If you like botany, this is for you. It’s only two weeks before an asteroid turns home to dust. Though most of Earth has already been evacuated, it’s Samantha’s job to catalog plant samples for the survivors’ unknowable journey beyond. Preparing to stay behind and watch the world end, she makes a final human connection. As certain doom hurtles nearer, the unexpected and beautiful potential for the future begins to flower.
by David Baldacci My rating: 1 of 5 stars Amazon Link, Author Website I've read a lot of Baldacci over the years. This is one of the worst. Like others, I question whether he really wrote it. Didn't have the same quality as his other books. The plot was so outlandish and the writing quality was more telling than showing, I couldn't believe I was reading a book by Davi Baldacci. Too many detailed chapters that ranged from Atlee's weight lifting workout and about restoring a Mustang. They added nothing to the story or character development. It seemed to be meant to get the word and page count up. Overall left me uninterested in continuing this series. Atlee Pine, an FBI special agent assigned to the remote wilds of the western United States. Ever since her twin sister was abducted by a notorious serial killer at age five, Atlee has spent her life hunting down those who hurt others. And she’s the best at it. She could be one of the Bureau’s top criminal profilers, if she didn’t prefer catching criminals in the vast wilderness of the West to climbing the career ladder in the D.C. office. Her chosen mission is a lonesome one–but that suits her just fine. Now, Atlee is called in to investigate the mutilated carcass of a mule found in the Grand Canyon–and hopefully, solve the disappearance of its rider. But this isn’t the only recent disappearance. In fact, it may be just the first clue, the key to unraveling a rash of other similar missing persons cases in the canyon. . .
by James Patterson My rating: 3 of 5 stars Amazon Page, Author Website It started off well. It goes from being one story to two. Both are intriguing. However, both are weakly linked. Could have easily been Bookshots. It was an alright legal thriller. Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar--and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defense counsel in a racially charged felony. The murder of a woman from one of the town's oldest families has Rosedale's upper crust howling for blood, and the prosecutor is counting on Ruby's inexperience to help him deliver a swift conviction. Ruby's client is a college football star who has returned home after a career-ending injury, and she is determined to build a defense that will stick. She finds help in unexpected quarters from Suzanne, a hard-charging attorney armed to the teeth, and Shorty, a diner cook who knows more than he lets on. Ruby never belonged to the country-club set, but once she nearly married into it. As news breaks of a second murder, Ruby's ex-fiancé, Lee Greene, shows up on her doorstep--a Southern gentleman in need of a savior. As lurid, intertwining investigations unfold, no one in Rosedale can be trusted, especially the twelve men and women impaneled on the jury. They may be hiding the most incendiary secret of all.
B. Shaun Smith 