Suspense

Christine Mangan’s noir novel, Tangerine, draws a fine line between homage to Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley novels and downright copying or pastiche.

A natural-born trapper and hunter raised in the Alaskan wilderness, Tracy Petrikoff spends her days tracking animals and running with her dogs in the remote forests surrounding her family’s home.

Hundreds of white-hot meteor fragments plunge toward earth near Monterey Bay, California.

“This is a book that will keep you up all night, unable to turn off the light, because the pages almost literally fly beneath your fingers.”

Jason Matthews’ The Kremlin’s Candidate is the finale in his Red Sparrow series. The story is very “today” with action and events pulled from current headlines.

James Grippando won the prestigious 2017 Harper Lee Prize for excellence in legal fiction for Gone Again, his 12th Jack Swyteck thriller, and A Death in Live Oak is the 14th offer

When the book jacket describes this book as “fiendishly clever,” “with masterful twists,” which “gallops along at breakneck speed with an ending that takes your breath away,” it is enjoyable to fin

“A well-written novel of deep resentments, long-stifled conscience, and justice a long time coming.”

“An entertaining, intriguing, and well thought-out novel with hints of the supernatural hovering in the background.”

“one of the best Caitlin Strong novels . . . An absorbing but reflective thriller.”

“a story closely reminiscent of a good number of Poe’s short stories . . .”

“a sometimes lonely, definitely dispassionate, journey through the mind of a man who always gets what he wants, no matter the sacrifice.”