Mysteries and Thrillers

I read mostly Mysteries and Thrillers.  A few recent titles I can recommend (summaries are from our Library catalog records):  Audiobook of The Woods by Harlan Coben – Scott Brick is a wonderful narrator, and Coben a very good writer, so this one rocks; audiobook of The Dangerous Hour by Marcia Muller (When one of her investigative operatives is arrested for credit card fraud, Sharon McCone’s efforts to prove the woman’s innocence are complicated by evidence that points to a larger conspiracy), female narrator took me awhile to get used to, but now enjoying. 

 Hooked (Barely escaping with his life when he receives a warning note telling him to flee an Internet café that subsequently explodes, a San Francisco writer recognizes the note’s handwriting as belonging to his believed-dead girlfriend, a realization that enmeshes him in a web of manipulation and conspiracy) by Matt Richtel, This is one of the best books I’ve read recently.

Play Dead by David Rosenfelt (Rescuing a golden retriever from euthanasia, wisecracking New Jersey defense attorney Andy Carpenter learns that the dog was involved in a previous owner’s murder conviction and is persuaded by the man’s sister to reopen the case)  A Welcome Grave by Michael Koryta (Following the murder of a prominent attorney, Cleveland private detective Lincoln Perry is called in by the victim’s widow to help locate the attorney’s estranged son, only to find himself the prime suspect in the killing of the missing man).  Lincoln Perry and Andy Carpenter are both wise-ass detectives.

Final Payment by Steven Havill (Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman has her hands full with her son scheduled for his first public piano concert on the same day as a local bike race, a situation complicated when she and former sheriff Bill Gastner find the body of one of the nation’s top bicycle racers) The latest in the Posadas County mystery series.