Category Archives: Reader's CircleAllison DuBois is best known for her contribution to the NBC Series, Medium, starring Patricia Arquette. The series was inspired by DuBois’ work as a medium with various law enforcement agencies. Don’t Kiss Them Good-bye is DuBois’ personal account of her experiences; growing up with psychic abilities; overcoming self doubt and skeptics; and finding a [...]
Fans of John Sandford’s Prey series will find themselves in familiar territory in Dark of the Moon, even though Lucas Davenport is only a supporting character. Virgil Flowers, introduced in Invisible Prey, works his own homicide investigation for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA).
The townsfolk of Bluestem are stunned with murders of two residents, [...]
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold is a disturbing story of family dysfunction, impulsive violence and mental illness. The story begins with the murder of Clair Knightly, a senile 88 year old, at the hands of her daughter, Helen. Over the next 24 hours, Helen’s actions will endanger her loved ones, destroy relationships and raise [...]
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She touched the note in her pocket, reassuring herself that is was still there. She had touched it a hundred times on her walk to the market, though she didn’t dare take it out of her pocket in broad daylight.
“G’day Miss, sweet, juicy apples for your pleasure.” Lost in thought, Amanda was startled by [...]
Cynthia Bigge awakes one day to find her family, father, mother and brother, have vanished. Both family cars are gone and there is no trace of violence. Twenty five years later, Cynthia agrees to have her story told on news show, Deadline, still hopeful someone will come forward with information. After the show airs, strange [...]
Readers were first introduced to Kathryn Dance in Jeffery Deaver’s The Cold Moon. She assisted Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs (forensic investigators who have appeared in several Deaver novels) hunt for calculating killer; the Clockmaker. Dance possesses extraordinary interrogation skills, observing and interpreting body language as a human lie detector. Her skills are showcased in [...]
Megan Blair has put the tragic events of her childhood behind her, working as an ER physician and living with her beloved Uncle Phillip, the only family she has left. One night, on the way home from work, Megan is run off the road by a drunk driver. Phillip isn’t sure it was random event [...]
Retribution is the story of Chloe Larson, an ambitious law student who is on the brink of a bright career and future. Instead her life is changed in one night of terror, as she is raped, tortured and left for dead.
‘He whistled to himself as he rinsed the blood off the knife in her clean, [...]
Odd Thomas is back and he still sees dead people, helping them resolve issues to move forward, while longing for Stormy. His love and loss is like a suit of sadness, replacing Odd’s naked naivety of the previous book. As in other works by Dean Koontz, the characters of Pico Mundo are fundamentally flawed, whether physically [...]
Even though half of my work day is spent reading technical specifications, it’s not what I have in mind. I want to be paid to read the books I never seem to enough FREE time to read. I can’t tell you how excited I was this afternoon that a box from Amazon arrived, full of [...]
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