If you are on the lookout for a quick and entertaining, yet well-written summer read, I’ve found one for you in The Rosie Project. The Rosie Project is the debut novel of Australian author-cum-IT consultant, Graeme Simsion. It focuses on routine-laden genetics professor, Don Tillman, who has decided he is ready for marriage. He hopes… View more
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes is a psychological thriller that follows a young woman, Cathy, who was attacked by her ex-boyfriend, Lee. As she tries to deal with the aftermath from the attack and nearly being killed, she develops PTSD and OCD. The novel is split between the present and the past when… View more
The Hunter is another great standalone thriller by John Lescroart. One of Lescroart’s dynamic, recurring characters, San Francisco private investigator Wyatt Hunt, stars in a very private story about family and identity. The Hunter begins with Hunt receiving a cryptic text about the biological parents who abandoned him: “How did ur mother die?” We quickly… View more
Lee Child’s The Affair, the 16ththriller in the bestselling Jack Reacher series, finally delivers the origins of the idealistic (and lethal) Reacher persona. When the series started in 1997 with The Killing Floor, the hero was already a former Army M.P. At last, we find out why he had to leave the Army. The first… View more
John Sandford’s latest entry in the Prey series brings back Lucas Davenport and all the characters we’ve grown to love: Del, Marcy, Weather and Letty, Shrake and Jenkins. It’s a terrific suspense novel. Two plastic-wrapped bodies are unearthed at a construction site, and Davenport has to see for himself. He is certain these are the… View more
Green Rider is the first book in a four book series of fantasy novels. The main character is a girl named Karigan, who runs away from school after fighting off a bully. In the woods she encounters a Green Rider, one of the king’s elite messengers, with arrows in his back. Before he dies, he… View more
Dead Reckoning is the latest in the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris, which means it is sure to be a huge hit. This installment is a continuation of the the drama from the last few books. Sookie’s vampire boyfriend Eric Northman and his sidekick Pam (my favorite character in the series) are in political… View more