Chain Reaction by James Byrne

January 28, 2025

How often do you read a book and say, “I wonder how they came up with that title?” I love it that I read this third Dez Limerick thriller by James Byrne, and understood how the title Chain Reaction was used. If Dez Limerick hadn’t received a text...

My Cousin Skinny by E.J. Copperman

November 08, 2023

What can be worse than returning home to a cousin’s wedding, and facing a judgmental mother and older sister? For Sandy Moss, in E.J. Copperman’s My Cousin Skinny, it’s seeing the bride-to-be covered in blood while insisting she wants Sandy as her...

The Match by Harlan Coben

March 15, 2022

Harlan Coben brings back some of my favorite characters from The Boy from the Woods, Wilde, attorney Hester Crimstein, and Hester’s grandson, Matthew, in The Match, a disturbing novel that takes on social media. Wilde, found in the woods thirty years earlier, is...

Find Me by Alafair Burke

January 11, 2022

While NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher isn’t the primary focus of Alafair Burke’s Find Me, some of us who followed her over eight years ago finally have answers, as does Ellie. It takes a complex storyline and a missing woman, but Ellie finally has a...

All These Ashes by James Queally

September 28, 2021

I’ll read almost any crime novel featuring a journalist. A journalist turned PI? I’m in. James Queally’s All These Ashes brings back Russell Avery in the sequel to Line of Sight. While I didn’t read the first one, I’d suggest interested...