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Review: Detour Amour (Detour Paris Series Book 3) by Jack Dancer ★★★★★

Detour Amour, by Jack Dancer, is the stunning conclusion to the Detour Paris series.

Tucker Blue is not playing Mr. Nice Guy anymore. The woman he loves is still being held captive and his enemies have pushed him too far. Tucker wants to destroy them, but he’s an advertising guy, not Rambo.

Tucker turns to unconventional means to out his nemesis in an attempt to rescue his princess. Will his plan work? And at what cost?

The main ingredients of the series thus far has been humorous unpredictability and crazy escapades. This series is creative, entertaining, and cringe-worthy. After […]

T B Markinson2016-01-13T11:17:47+02:00December 27th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Action and Adventure Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

The Peril Protocol by Robert Thornton

The Peril Protocol by Robert Thornton is a page-turning thriller about a renowned doctor who’s accused of being a serial killer. Dr. Hope Allerd is working under Dr. Erril, researching a miracle cure for meningitis. A reporter shows up on the scene and accuses him of the seemingly impossible: being the worst serial killer since Jack the Ripper. When women start showing up dead at the hospital, and the reporter is outed for being a serial plagiarizer, Dr. Allerd doesn’t know who to trust. But it gets worse. Allerd discovers that she’s slated to be the murderer’s next victim, and […]

Henry Baum2015-12-12T14:27:06+02:00December 12th, 2015|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews|

The Life Engine by Rick Baker

The Life Engine The Life Engine by Rick Baker is a pulse-pounding and thought-provoking thriller about two mismatched people on the run from the American government and a sadistic killer. Ian Wolfe is a down-on-his-luck former CIA agent who is tasked with investigating April Gentry, a female Indiana Jones and then some, who has access to a life-saving plant in the Amazon rainforest. Pharmaceutical companies aren’t so interested in having this come to market, and send an assassin to rectify the problem. Meanwhile, an associate of April hacks into a government database and downloads top secret information. Ian and April become closer as […]

Henry Baum2015-12-11T08:07:11+02:00December 11th, 2015|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: The Flight of the Mayday Squadron by Steve A. Madison ★★★★

The Flight of the Mayday Squadron The Flight of the Mayday Squadron is a high-octane conspiracy thriller about an epic battle between good and evil. The North American Order is a nefarious group with origins all the way back to the Roman Empire, and have been responsible for everything from the rise of Hitler to the JFK assassination. Their goal is to create a feudal utopia, and it’s up to a group of pious combat veterans to put a stop to a plot that is centuries in the making.

In order to talk about this book, it’s important to understand the author’s intention from his biography […]

Henry Baum2015-12-18T07:04:35+02:00November 11th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Bully by Emme Dun

★★★★★

Bully, by Emme Dun is an intelligent and aptly-timed legal thriller.

Based on true events, Bully kicks off during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The discrimination and hysteria surrounding gay parents resulted in many being treated as second class citizens. By 2008, Joanna Crawford, now an elected family court judge wants to atone for her treatment of her own father, a gay man. Lisa White, a lesbian mother, finds herself in Crawford’s court and their children become political pawns.

First-time author, Emme Dun, has penned an important and fascinating legal thriller that will captivate […]

T B Markinson2019-01-22T15:38:03+02:00October 6th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Legal Thriller Book Reviews, LGBTQI+ Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: The New Lease by John Stryder

★★★★½ The New Lease by John Stryder

The New Lease by John Stryder is a riveting conspiracy thriller following Fae Cunningham, who is being shadowed by a mysterious benefactor who rescued her many years before. Suffering from a history of mental illness, she follows her benefactor to the Middle East, only to find his control extends far beyond her own life. He has the power to bend minds at will.

Traveling from the halls of academia to the Persian Gulf, India, and other locales, this is a true globetrotting novel with enough cultural detail to give the novel increased depth and realism. Stryder seems to know […]

Henry Baum2016-03-04T04:23:03+02:00October 2nd, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Do You Solemnly Swear? by Lin Wilder ★★★★

Gabe McAllister, former Marine and Texas State Trooper is accused of raping a six-year-old Annie Bridges – the daughter of his ex-partner. With the DEA, Border Control, and the police coming down on him with an investigation seemingly watertight, with his supposed victim’s testimony taken on its word, Gabe is faced with the unimaginable: life in prison at Huntsville.

But not everyone can stand by and watch an innocent man go to jail, and now it’s up to Houston Tribune’s Kate Townsend and the foreman of the jury that convicted McAllister to come forward and do some investigating of their […]

Cate Baum2015-10-02T08:00:48+02:00September 28th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Legal Thriller Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Blind Thrust by Samuel Marquis ★★★★

Blind Thrust by Samuel Marquis A Blind Thrust is the term that describes an earthquake that occurs on a fault that is hidden from view – these sorts of earthquakes can be the most destructive – and here Marquis uses this as a metaphor in his thriller mystery of the same name, in the vein of Dan Brown, but instead of religion we get science, and instead of Langdon we meet a protagonist in the form of geologist Joe Higheagle, a man passionate about his work, and the environment.