Tag: thrillers
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Book review: The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich
The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the first in a new series by a well-known mystery author, Janet Evanovich, who writes the Stephanie Plum series. Gabriela Rose is a “recovery agent,” someone who is retained to find lost/stolen/missing items. And this time she is off to find…
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Book review: Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a difficult-to-place genre of a book, which I really enjoyed). A group of middle-aged female assassins are retiring, but someone is trying to kill them, and they have to “unretire” long enough to fend off attempts to kill them…
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Book review: Priority Target by Ethan Jones
Priority Target by Ethan Jones My rating: 2 of 5 stars I don’t generally post reviews of books that I didn’t particularly like (mostly because books are a deeply personal thing, and authors work hard at their craft, regardless of whether I liked the book or not), but this book irked me in ways that…
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Book review: Keeper by Greg Rucka
Keeper by Greg Rucka My rating: 4 of 5 stars I am reading the work of Greg Rucka backwards, having started with his Queen and Country series, “Alpha” (the first book in his new Jad Bell series) and now back to his initial series with Atticus Kodiak in “Keeper.” As I’ve mentioned in a previous…
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Book review: Killing Floor by Lee Child
Killing Floor by Lee Child My rating: 4 of 5 stars Hard boiled thrillers are a bit hit-and-miss with me. I like some of them but many are off-putting due to their unlikeable main character. I was surprised I liked this book as much as I do. There’s violence, of course, (you can’t have a…