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Money Shot by Christa Faust (Hard Case Crime 2008). Ex-porn star, Angel Dare is having a really bad day. She arrives at a phony shoot and finds herself beat up, shot at and then left for dead in the trunk of a car.
To make matters worse, she doesn’t even know what the hell’s going on when she later […]
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Continue ReadingTHE REDEEMER (Harry Hole No.4) by Jo Nesbø and translated by Don Bartlett is apart of a series and is published by Random House (UK).
Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø has penned another page-turner. This man is simply brilliant when it comes to plotting and characterizations.
There’s not one boring scene in his books. None. Nada. Nesbø‘s […]
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Continue ReadingBone Crossed (2009) by Patricia Briggs is the fourth book in the Mercy Thompson series. Werewolves, fae, vampires and other hidden creatures live among humans or so says Mercy, the narrator of this series. By the way, I’ll try not to spoil it for you if you haven’t started this series yet.
Mercy is a shape shifter or […]
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Continue ReadingJoker (2008) story by Brian Azzarello and artwork by Lee Bermejo and published by DC Comics.
I really enjoyed Alan Moore’s classic origin story of the Joker in “The Killing Joke” and was more than happy to pick up and read Azzarello’s remake of “Joker.”
The Joker has been given new life thanks to the brilliant performance by […]
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Continue ReadingI’ve discovered a new author to add to my “authors to watch out for” list and her name is Debra Webb. Suspense must be her first, middle and last name because Nameless, her Feb 2008 release by St. Martin’s Paperbacks, kept me on the edge of my seat.
Former FBI agent, Ryan McBride is bitter at having […]
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Continue ReadingLeftovers by Laura Wiess published Jan 2008, by MTV books. Dysfunction seems to be the prevailing theme of Ms. Wiess’s second book. I read her first book, Such a Pretty Girl, when it first came out in 2007. The theme of that story was about surviving sexual abuse. Leftovers spotlight teens in crisis. The author describes […]
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Continue ReadingHow would you feel about having your life ruined? Having enemies out there that you didn’t know about or didn’t know existed? Old Boy by Tsuchiya Garon is a revenge story. Our protagonist is Goto. When we first meet him, he is the nameless man who was imprisoned for ten years. He was locked up in a hotel room and served food and water […]
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