Tag: Crime Thriller

Book Review – What She Left (Martina Monroe Book 1)

What She Left (Martina Monroe, #1)

What She Left by H.K. Christie

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Crime Thriller, Police procedural Thriller

“I gazed down at her and wondered how something so magnificent could have come from something so horrible.”

Martina Monroe is a Private Investigator who is trying to get her life back on track after a drunken car crash that nearly ruined her life. Now sober and determined to stay that way, her boss has finally entrusted her with a real case. The client, an old acquaintance from high school, found a picture in her late mother’s things of her mom and a baby she doesn’t recognize. It’s not her and her dad won’t talk about it. She wants Martina to try and find out who the baby is.

“I would do everything in my power to make sure I found this baby, even if it meant returning to my hometown, something I hadn’t ever planned to do.”

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Book Review – The Stowaway

The Stowaway

The Stowaway by James S. Murray

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Crime Thriller

“A far stronger smell blasted out of the dark space, immediately overwhelming and shocking Pam’s senses. It was putrid. Something rotten. Like a decomposing animal.”

“All passengers on board are accounted for. All crewmembers are accounted for. No one is missing, not a single person.” Hendricks shrugged. “So it seems we have a stowaway.”

Maria Fontana’s life changed the day she was selected for jury duty for the murder trial of Wyatt Butler. Charged with the murder and mutilation of eight children, he was labeled the worst serial killer in decades. When the jury couldn’t agree on conviction, the mistrial threw their lives into turmoil. The public and the victim’s family were furious, how could they have let this monster go?

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🏅Top Shelf Tuesday🏅

Happy Tuesday everyone!

This week’s pick is:

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Millennium Series book 1
by Stieg Larsson
Mystery Crime Thriller
Paperback
Published by Vintage Crime, June 2009

Another Bora Bora vacation read that I devoured. I read this one in 2015, after the Swedish and the co-produced Swedish/American/United Kingdom movies were out. I LOVE Mara Rooney as Lisbeth! Hands down, I could not have casted better 😁.
So of course I wanted to read the book. I had no idea that I would love it and the rest of the series as much as I do. Lisbeth Salander is a character that I have never encountered before and I absolutely love her! She is the ultimate female badass.
I have not ventured on to the later books in the series written by David Lagercrantz. I’m a chicken like that. I know that I will eventually. But if you haven’t checked out these books you should!

Between Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole series I’m a huge Scandinavian Crime Noir!

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Book Review – Three to Get Deadly

Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum, #3)

Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Crime Thriller, Comedy Thriller

“I wasn’t sure why I was still working for Vinnie. I suspected it had something to do with the title. Bounty Hunter. It held a certain cat he. Even better, the job didn’t require panty hose.”

Stephanie Plum is at it again and this time the bodies are really piling up.

“Christ, Stephanie, this makes four! Four dead bodies. Eight if you count the ones in the cellar.” “It’s not my fault!” I stuffed my fists onto my hips. “You think I want to keep finding dead bodies? This is no picnic for either, you know.”

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