Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben introduces Myron Bolitar and the series of books about this former basketball star who becomes a sports agent after an injury ends his promising basketball career. In this thriller, Myron investigates the disappearance of the sister of his former girlfriend and confronts the seedy side of professional sports. I have loved…

Acceptable Risk by Robin Cook is a medical thriller about a woman descended from a victim of the Salem witch trials. As she investigates the illness that consumed her relative, a doctor discovers a chemical compound in mold from the ancestral home. The chemical elicits startling symptoms that promise a therapeutic breakthrough in treatment of emotional…

Promise Me by Harlan Coben is a Myron Bolitar novel about two teenage girls who disappear and Myron Bolitar’s efforts to find and rescue them. As usual, things get complicated, and Myron’s friend, Windsor Horne Lockwood III, provides muscle and brains. I enjoyed the book. It kept my interest from the first page to the…

The Other Extreme by T J MacGregor is a thriller about Kit, a woman lawyer defending a young doctor charged with murder, a judge who committed the murder and is willing to kill again, and Kit’s young son who hears voices and knows things that only her dead brother could have known. Sparks fly between Kit…

In Sorry and Morticum, Charles E Stoll creates a futuristic world damaged by global warming and war. Mutant creatures, who have acquired the ability to talk, dominate the earth and help a wizard and his werewolf lover to battle the hostile environment. The author entertains with a vivid imagination, witty dialogue, and thought-provoking philosophical ideas.

The Enemy by Lee Child is a Jack Reacher novel that goes back to a time before Major Reacher left the army. He is a Military Police officer assigned to investigate the death of a two-star general in a motel in North Carolina. The case becomes complicated when the general’s briefcase is discovered missing and his…

Spencerville by Nelson DeMille is the story of a cold-war warrior who leaves government service after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He returns to his hometown and connects with his childhood sweetheart who is trapped in an abusive marriage to the chief of police. Soon he faces harassment by the entire police force and she…

The Last Mile by David Baldacci is a sequel to Memory Man. Amos Decker returns with his remarkable memory, a gift that allows him to remember everything, but also a curse that prevents him from forgetting the horrible things he has endured. Melvin Mars has spent twenty years in prison for murdering his parents. He sits on…