The Last Tiara by M.J. Rose is inspired by real missing Russian Crown Jewels. M.J. Rose explains in an article to The Adventurine how she stumbled upon an NPR article about the disappearance of the missing Russian Crown Jewels that to date, have not been found. Captivated by it and how such amazing items could simply disappear, she …
To this reader, two of the scariest book and life scenarios are that of cybersecurity and cyberterrorism. Richard Sandford in his novel The Soul Snatchers has achieved both scenarios. The time is the near future. The locales include the San Juan Islands in Washington State, Seattle, Portland (Oregon) and the Bay Area of California. The …
Carol Cassella’s Gemini is a great mystery, leaving you wanting to know who left Jane Doe to die in a ditch. Through flashbacks, we find out more about the characters, little by little. Jam packed with medical terminology, this novel will make you actually want to go look up what the characters are talking about. …
There are always books we mean to get to… but somehow time gets away from us, there are newer books popping up, look – something shiny! So it took me until now to finally get to Warren Ellis’s Gun Machine, and I’m sorry it took me so long! I’d been intrigued by the premise: a locked room filled …
I’m not sure of all the artistic and/or contractual reasons why Richard Price wrote his latest novel under (or, rather, as the cover has it, over) a pen name, but any Price fan will be glad to hear that, even when he’s trying to write a quick, commercial crime thriller, he can’t help but write …
“An elderly woman shows up in Three Pines during the Christmas holidays. She thinks no one knows who she is, but someone does recognize her. When it comes time for her to leave, she is asked to come back for Christmas, but as we all know, death never takes a holiday. “Not long after, she …
My taste in books includes historical fiction, mysteries, techno-thrillers, and military fiction. When it comes to legal thrillers, I turn to Robert Dugoni. He is a lawyer who specializes in civil law. Consequently, his books have traditionally featured civil law cases. Until now. In Murder One, Dugoni’s fifth book, Seattle lawyer David Sloane is hired by Barclay …
I recently had an opportunity to see and hear Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire mysteries. If he appears in your town, go see him. As great as he writes, he speaks even better. While I was at the bookstore to hear Craig speak, I purchased Death Without Company. This is the second book of …
“I have just ‘discovered’ Anne Perry, a very prolific writer. My first taste of Ms Perry’s works was The Face of a Stranger, the first book featuring William Monk. The setting is London after the Crimean War (late 1850s). As the story opens, Monk is in a hospital and has no idea who he is …
