Posted by Reader | | Mystery |
Some books are barely worth reading once and then there are the very few that are worth reading a second time.
Long Lost by Harlan Corben is one of those in the latter category.
I had the good fortune to read this one a second time. I read it the first time some months ago and when a friend passed along some books to me to read, I found it in the stack and immediately had to begin reading it again.
Mr. Corben pens characters with flair and creativeness; characters who leave us wanting to be their friend or their enemy. We feel their anguish over a lost child; their desperation to solve the puzzle that is their life.
Long Lost is an intricately intertwined double plot tale of a terrorist scheme to infiltrate and destroy the US and a story about a child killed in a wreck and another born into the midst of that scheme and how she was found.
Both plots are all too believable and terrifying in their implications.
But that is the true test of a good mystery’s tale – is it far enough “out there” to be unique and is it reasonable enough to be something you could conceive of happening. Long Lost passes both tests with flying colors.
I invite you to read Long Lost for yourself and see if you don’t enjoy it – once or twice!
Long Lost by Harlan Corben
ISBN: 978-0-525-95105-6
Published by Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2009
Posted by Reader | | Thriller |
Boneman’s Daughters threads current issues facing returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan with threads that make a thriller…well, thrilling! It’s a great mixture of the two tapestries and it’s sure to fire your imagination as well as engage your emotions.
Ted Dekker takes a serial killer, a returning vet and a police department besieged by a serial killer and winds them into a story that will have you up until the final pages turn under your eyes.
Set in Texas, the killer stalks young girls seeking one to become the perfect daughter. When all fail, they are killed by systematically breaking every bone in their body. He has created a science of this and makes it a point to not break the skin.
The afterword is just as compelling as the book, so don’t skip that either.
Boneman’s Daughters by Ted Dekker
Published by Center Street 2009
ISBN 978-0-446-54720-8
Posted by Reader | Kay Hooper, Paranormal, Touching Evil | Science Fiction |
You have to love how Kay Hooper integrates the paranormal into her novels. Her characters are perfectly normal people with faults and foibles just like the rest of us, but with an added “something”.
In this novel, we are introduced to Maggie Barnes an empath whose strength increases with each victim she helps get over being touched by an evil that has come down through time to re-enact it’s killing spree.
At first it leaves them alive, but blind. Now it has discovered that leaving them alive leaves it vulnerable to the psychic forces aligning against it and so it begins killing it’s victims after perpetrating unspeakable acts against them. Unexpected help comes from one of the victims of his first killing spree as well as one of the victims from this spree who miraculously gets her sight back by virtue of transplanted eyes from an accident victim. As Hollis is recovering from the surgery, she begins communicating with Annie, the dead sister of the killer.
This intricately woven tale will keep you intrigued throughout.
Touching Evil by Kay Hooper
Bantam Books 2001
ISBN 0-553-58344-1
Posted by Reader | Murder Mystery, Mystery, Ricochet, Sandra Brown | Mystery |
Sandra Brown brings us another great read with Ricochet. Set in Savannah, GA, the main character Detective Duncan Hatcher is a complicated mixture of moralist and tough cop. His partner, DeeDee Bowen and he have been trying without success to catch and prosecute a local drug lord named Robert Savitch. Mr. Savitch is nothing if not canny and manages to keep out of the clutches of the law and above prosecution, often by way of one Judge Cato Laird’s rulings in his favor.
The latest encounter with Savitch and Laird have seen Duncan put in jail for two days for contempt after Judge Laird orders a mistrial on the basis of one of the juror’s not disclosing that her son was enrolled in the Police Academy and Duncan’s subsequent loss of composure in the courtroom.
When Duncan and DeeDee are called to the Judge’s home to investigate a homicide, it’s pretty apparent that the story they are given is full of half-truths and outright lies. The Judge’s beautiful wife, Elise Laird has killed an intruder. She cites self defense, but some things just aren’t adding up.
To further complicate the whole case is Duncan’s strong attraction to the beautiful Elise.
Despite his upbringing as the son of a preacher and his adherence to a high moral ground in his dealings with perpetrators and victims alike, Duncan succumbs to his baser self with Elise all the while doubting everything she’s ever told him and knowing he’s likely compromising any case he and DeeDee might bring against the woman.
Ricochet by Sandra Brown
Published by Pocket Books 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4165-2332-1
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