Iris Johansen
A CIA agent's two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she can't.
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I hated it. I couldn't bring myself to finish it.
Harlan Coben
Myron Bolitar hasn’t heard from Terese Collins since their torrid affair ended ten years ago, so her desperate phone call from Paris catches him completely off guard.
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Not what I expected, but wow.
Just proof some parents will do anything for their children and their family.
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Always a twist.
Antoinette Van Heugten
Murder in a psychiatric hospital. A 17-year-old patient is stabbed to death — there are over 300 puncture wounds to his body. He is found in his bed, and lying nearby on the floor is another patient, Max, who was supposed to be restrained in his own bed. Max is unconscious and the murder weapon is cradled in his lap. Making this discovery is Danielle, Max’s mom.
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So good.
Jane Lynch
A memoir.
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So funny. But sad as well.
J.A. Jance
In the heat of the Arizona desert, a raging fire pushes temperatures to a deadly degree, and one woman is left to burn. Pulled naked and barely breathing from the fire, the victim has no idea who she is, let alone who would do this to her -- or why. In her hospital bed she drifts in and out of consciousness, her only means of communicating a blink of the eye. And then an angel appears. Misguidedly known around town as the "Angel of Death," Sister Anselm has devoted her life to working as an advocate for unidentified patients. To her burn patient, she is a savior. But to this Jane Doe's would-be killer, Sister Anselm's efforts pose a serious threat. Ali Reynolds is on the scene as the new media relations consultant for the Yavapai County Police Department, keeping reporters at bay and circumventing questions about arson and a link to a domestic terrorist group called Earth Liberation Front. But her job quickly becomes much more. As Ali struggles to help Sister Anselm uncover the helpless woman's identity, they realize that by locating the missing relatives they may be exposing the victim once more to a remorseless killer determined to finish the job.
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I liked it.
Andrew Grey
The two young men meet on Evan’s first day at St. Bartholomew’s Academy and start a life-long relationship of friendship and support. Their relationship is the backbone of Seven Days. The story follows them through their time at the academy through college and the early days of their careers.
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Absolutely amazing story.
Jennifer Weiner
Everyone has their own plans, but sometimes circumstances change everything whether you want it or not. We are all connected.. Somehow.
David Baldacci
Jack Armstrong is a former army ranger married to his other half...a marriage meant to be, made in heaven. Then he comes down with an unnamed fatal illness which will leave his wife and 3 children alone. But there is always a little twist in everything.
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Tear jerker.
Jay Asher
I would NEVER let my children read this book. It is about this teenager that sends out 13 tapes of reasons why she killed herself. I think it glorifies suicide instead of deterring.
I am NOT a fan. This guy should be shot.
James Patterson
Matthew Bannon, a poor art student living in New York City, finds a duffel bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his gorgeous girlfriend Katherine fill his thoughts—until he realizes that he is being hunted, and that whoever is after him won't stop until they have reclaimed the diamonds and exacted their revenge.
NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him—he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each café through the eyes of his daughter's killer.
A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York—including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes.
A calculating murderer who calls himself the Teacher is taking on New York City, slaughtering the powerful and the arrogant. Everyone is his potential student–from the loudmouthed girl on her cell phone to the city's snooty upper crust. His message to them is clear: remember your manners or suffer the consequences!
A serial killer is stalking and murdering newlyweds on their honeymoon. San Francisco Homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer takes the case and along the way meets three other women–a lawyer, a reporter, and the city medical examiner. Joining forces to solve this gruesome crime, the Women's Murder Club is born.
When family members of San Francisco cops are found dead, Detective Lindsay Boxer, Medical examiner Claire Washburn, reporter Cindy Thomas and Assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt are faced with a tough case. As the killer looks for his next victim, the women must quickly track him down before he kills again.
Lindsay Boxer and friends must track down a deadly terror group who begins their killing spree by blowing up an expensive townhouse–with the family still inside. In the meantime, a member of the club may be in some trouble of her own and Lindsay could be too late to save her.
After an arrest goes awry, Lindsay finds herself facing police brutality charges. But taking time off to cool down proves harder then she thought. As she heads out of town, Lindsay finds herself in the middle of a killing spree, and must locate the killers before they find her. Back in San Francisco, the Women's Murder Club helps to get Lindsay through the trial...but will she be found innocent?
Patients at San Francisco medical Center are mysteriously dying hours before they are to be released with a clean bill of health. Lindsay and the rest of the Women's Murder Club begin their own investigation into the hospital, but the list of suspects proves to be as long as the list of patients.
Someone opens fire on unsuspecting pedestrians and one of the Women's Murder Club is caught in the middle. As she struggles for her life, the others must work fast to track down the madman. In another part of the city, somebody is targeting children and their nannies. As the kidnappers await their ransom, Lindsay and company are faced with finding the mastermind before more children are harmed.
The beloved son of California's former governor disappears into the ether. The angel-faced prostitute Junie Moon admits to the crime and Yuki Castellano is faced with the media circus surrounding her prosecution. But is Junie Moon really to blame? At the same time, a serial arsonist is torching some of San Francisco's most beautiful homes and leaving it's occupants to suffer terrible deaths in the flames. It doesn't add up, but Lindsay Boxer is charged with finding the truth.
It's the only Murder Club episode this year, and Lindsay, Cindy, Yuki, and Claire are overwhelmed. A killer picks off San Francisco's super-rich one by one–without a leaving so much as shred of evidence behind. And a street preacher and patron saint to the homeless is brutally beaten and left to die. What secrets lurk behind his mantle of holiness? Meanwhile, danger strikes close to home when an unexpected romance threatens to tear the girls apart. In the 8th Women's Murder Club, the stakes are high, but the truth is shrouded. Who will confess?
A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in blood-red lipstick.
Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals—but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well.
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James Patterson is a pretty good writer. However his choice in book covers is just silly.
Really though, his stories have these twists to them that aren't as obvious as other mystery writers. I'm a fan, slightly.
Professional Idiot: a memoir
Steve is so annoying.
The words "Generally and Genuinely" were in this book more then a hundred times. It was almost to the point where I would feel my blood pressure rise slightly. Uhg
John Sandford
One Sunday in late fall in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator — and a young man hits him on the head with a t-ball bat, drops him into the grain bin, waits until he's sure he's dead (if the blow didn't kill him, the smothering grain surely would), and then calls the sheriff to report the "accident."
An entire block on the edge of the Minneapolis loop is being torn down for development, when an unpleasant surprise is unearthed: the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic, underneath an old house. It looks like they've been down there a long time.
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It was an intense book. It didn't end quite like I was hoping.
Jeff Lindsay
(pages 288)
This is basically like the t.v show but this book has a little twist.
I think I like this book better than the t.v show. But not by much.
John Grisham
Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father’s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential. But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn’t want—even though it’s a job most law students can only dream about.
In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb…Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client — even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom… or cost them both their lives.
Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die. His heirs, to no one’s surprise–especially Troy’s–are circling like vultures.
The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young man. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle — and takes justice into his own outraged hands.
In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A’s, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits—drinking, drugs, and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa.
Travis Boyette is such a man. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row.
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I have a new found love for criminal mysteries.
People are crazy. Sometimes it's good to be reminded how good we have it.
There is always someone worse off.
Michael Connelly
Cassie Black is an ex-con who needs to make one more score in order to fulfill the dream that sustained her in prison.
A collection of short stories
Harry Bosch is back with a badge. Teaming with former partner Kizmin Rider, Harry is assigned to the Open-Unsolved team.
From the streets of L.A. to the shimmering skyline of Hong Kong, Harry Bosch must find his missing daughter.
Harry Bosch rediscovers a startling unsolved murder among his old case files. He cannot rest until he finds the killer.
Private investigator Harry Bosch confronts a villain who’s long been in hiding — a fiend known as the Poet.
When the bones of a 12-year-old boy are found Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up dark memories.
Would you risk your life for a woman you’ve never met? A thriller about a simple wrong number that opens a line into terror.
A lawyer is found murdered on the eve of a landmark trial at the foot of Angels Flight in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. And Harry Bosch is put in charge.
Both Terry McCaleb and Harry Bosch are featured in a story that is a murder mystery, a legal thriller, and a psychological drama.
Relentlessly pursuing two cases, Harry Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department.
A collection of short stories.
Blood Work: (1998) Terry McCaleb, one of the most effective serial-killer investigators in the history of the FBI, hunts down his heart donor's killer.
Fifth Witness: (2011) Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take her home.
Lincoln Lawyer: (2005) Mickey Haller, a cynical defense attorney whose one remaining spark of integrity may cost him his life.
Trunk Music: (1997) The murder of a Hollywood producer has all the signs of a Mafia hit but something doesn't add up to Harry Bosch.
The Overlook: (2007) An execution on the overlook above the Mulholland Dam entangles Bosch with F.B.I. Agent Rachel Walling and Homeland Security.
The Last Coyote: (1995) After being put on involuntary stress leave for attacking his boss, LAPD detective Harry Bosch tackles his mother's murder case.
Concrete Blonde: (1994) Four years ago, Harry Bosch shot the notorious serial killer "The Dollmaker." Now Harry is accused of killing the wrong man.
The Poet: (1996) A cunning, poet-quoting serial killer of unprecedented savagery executes one homicide cop after another.
The Reversal: (2010) Defense attorney Mickey Haller changes sides to prosecute the high-profile retrial of a child murderer, with LAPD Detective Bosch as lead investigator.
Brass Verdict: (2008) Mickey Haller, from The Lincoln Lawyer, takes over the law practice of a murdered defense attorney. Detective Harry Bosch is assigned to investigate that murder.
Black Echo: (1992) LAPD Detective Harry Bosch must walk the line between criminals and crooked cops following the death of an old war buddy.
Echo Park: (2006) Bosch reopens the hunt for a psychotic killer who stalked the streets of Los Angeles years before.
The Scarecrow: (2009) Crime reporter Jack McEvoy reunites with FBI Agent Rachel Walling to go after a killer who has worked completely below police and FBI radar.
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I love Michael Connelly's Micky Haller character.
Though there is only 3 books I think with him in it.
If you like Law and Order you will probably like Michael Connelly's writing. But there are different view points. Some are from a Lawyers prospective, some are from an investigator, and so on..
It always has a twist. Keeps you thinking.
Clearly I am obsessed.
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