Archive for the 'Suspense' Category

BOOK REVIEW | Amber Morn

Posted by admin on 19 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Book Reviews, Suspense

I’m looking at my stacks of books (the read pile) and thinking, I need to get some book reviews posted. I have a habit of reading and then writing reviews in one sitting. I also tend to write my reviews by hand and then transfer them to the blog. Uhm, I see making better use [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Unpretty

Posted by admin on 16 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Book Reviews, Suspense

Unpretty by Sharon Carter Rogers
The novel opens with an art gallery bombing, where eight people associated with a Michelangelo exhibit are killed. A cult is responsible for the bombing and their mission is to rid the world of all “unpretty” people.  The cult’s leader and the bomber made one [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Ripple Effect

Posted by admin on 27 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Book Reviews, Suspense

Ripple Effect by Paul Mccusker
I don’t generally read young adult books, but the title and the book cover caught my attention. Ripple Effect is the first book in the Time Thriller Trilogy. It opens with best friends, Elizabeth and Jeff, having a conversation, or rather Elizabeth is venting about her [...]

BOOK REVIEW | My Soul to Keep

Posted by Ty on 09 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: Book Reviews, Suspense

My Soul to Keep
by Melanie Wells
Psychology professor, Dylan Foster, doesn’t have the best of luck, especially since a very odd man entered her life. Strange things seem to happen around her all the time.  When a close friend’s little boy is kidnapped during a birthday party, Dylan wonders if the sketchy clues about Nicholas’ kidnapper [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Try Dying

Posted by Ty on 03 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Book Reviews, Suspense

Try Dying by James Scott Bell
Try Dying is only the second book I’ve read by James Scott Bell, but I can officially say I’m  a fan. The character Ty Buchanan is a lawyer like many of the characters in Bell’s books. Readers meet Ty just as he loses his fiancee [...]

BOOK REVIEW | The Hunted

Posted by Ty on 25 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Book Reviews, Suspense

The Hunted by Mike Dellosso
Joe Saunders returns to his childhood home in Dark Hills to join the search party for his missing nephew, Caleb. When Caleb is found badly injured, news of the boy’s wounds are linked to some ferocious animal at large. Soon folks around town report seeing [...]

An Edgy Genre Takes Off in the Christian Market

Posted by Ty on 05 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Suspense

Kimberly Winston of Publishers Weekly writes “You could say there’s not a lot of suspense in Christian suspense. In the battle between good and evil, good always wins; if there is violence, the worst happens off-page; and if the main character is a woman, she’ll wind up with the right guy in the end. But [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Crimson Eve

Posted by admin on 14 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Book Reviews, Suspense

Crimson Eve
by Brandilynn Collins
While showing a home, realtor Carla Radling finds her potential buyer charming in a James Bond sort of way. Carla is ecstatic that someone finally is interested in the dead actress’ property. After all, who really wants to live in the home of a murdered person. To her [...]

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