One Step Too Far ( Frankie Elkin Book Two) by @LisaGardnerBks #CrimeThriller #NetGalley #TuesdayBookBlog

Posted in Book Review by Cathy

Author: Lisa Gardner

Published: January 2022 by Penguin

Category: Crime Thriller, Mystery, Contemporary Fiction

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If he never left the woods, where did he go?
A young man disappears during a stag weekend in the woods. Years later, he’s still missing.
But his friends who were with him that day are still searching for him. Still hunting for answers.
They hike deep into the wilderness.
With them is missing person specialist Frankie Elkin.
What they don’t know is that they are putting their own lives in terrifying danger, and may not come back alive . . .

In this second outing for Frankie Elkin, she reads about Timothy O’ Day in a small local newspaper. Timothy went missing in the Wyoming wilderness several years ago while camping with four friends prior to his marriage. The National Guard and volunteers searched initially but after finding no trace they gradually gave up.

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28Apr2022

#Spotlight with #Extract ~ Lethal Keystrokes by John D. May #Action #Adventure

Posted in Extract, Spotlight by Cathy

Are you scared about our on-line and real-life security in this digital era? I am.

Every day, I witness the power and influence of electronics in our children’s lives and fear for their future. What has happened to person-to-person communication? Where has truth gone? You can be liked and unliked with a click. The internet is freedom but anarchy reigns. Who can our children trust?

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29Mar2022

The Florentine ~ the New Spy Thriller from Tom Trott @tjtrott #TheFlorentine #TuesdayBookBlog

Posted in Book Review by Cathy

Author: Tom Trott

Publishing date: May 6th 2022

Category: Espionage, Thriller,

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When Cain retired from the CIA, he moved to Florence, Italy to get away from his past.

He’s had nine years to enjoy fine wine, good food, and the Tuscan countryside.

But now his old boss has tracked him down, and he needs Cain to do one last job.

What starts as a simple trade entangles Cain in a web of secrets involving the mafia, an NSA whistleblower, and his own past.

Opening with an action packed prologue, The Florentine focuses on Cain, an American living in Florence and enjoying his retirement. That is until he gets a phone call from his old friend and boss from his days in the CIA, Jo, offering him ‘one last job’ as a courier. All he had to do was drive to a house in the country, enjoy a nice dinner with the family who lived there and make the exchange. Simple. Not leaving him much choice, Cain reluctantly agrees.

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18Mar2022

Sunset Swing (City Blues Quartet Book 4) by Ray Celestin #Historical #CrimeFiction

Posted in Book Review, Crime/Thriller/Suspense, Historical by Cathy

Author: Ray Celestin

Published: November 2021 by Mantle

Category: History, Crime, Fiction

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A young nurse, Kerry Gaudet, travels to the City of Angels desperate to find her missing brother, fearing that something terrible has happened to him: a serial killer is terrorising the city, picking victims at random, and Kerry has precious few leads.

Ida Young, recently retired Private Investigator, is dragged into helping the police when a young woman is discovered murdered in her motel room. Ida has never met the victim but her name has been found at the crime scene and the LAPD wants to know why . . .

The City Blues Quartet started in New Orleans in 1919, took in Chicago in the 20s, New York in the 40s, now we’re in Los Angeles in the 60s and each time and place has been depicted vividly and atmospherically, incorporating real characters and events. I’ve loved these books and am sorry this is the final one, but I enjoyed very much catching up with those characters I was drawn to during the series.

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14Mar2022

The Deep Dark Descending by Allen Eskens @aeskens #Thriller #AudiobookReview

Posted in Audiobook, Book Review by Cathy

Author: Allen Eskens

Performed by R.C. Bray

Published by Tantor Audio, released on Audible October 2017

Category: Thriller, Suspense, Mystery

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Homicide Detective Max Rupert never fully accepted his wife’s death, even when he believed that a reckless hit-and-run driver was to blame. Haunted by memories both beautiful and painful, he is plagued by feelings of unfinished business. When Max learns that, in fact, Jenni was murdered, he must come to terms with this new information—and determine what to do with it.

Initially believing his wife had been killed by a hit and run driver, Max Rupert was devastated to learn she had been targeted and her murder planned. He is consumed with anger, grief and a desire to make those responsible pay for their crime. He is totally out of step with the person he has always been, even taking into acccount the bad days since Jenni’s death.

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16Dec2021

#BlogTour ~ Silenced By Jennie Ensor #Gangland #Crime @HobeckBooks @Jennie_Ensor

Posted in Blog Tour, Book Review, Contemporary, Crime by Cathy

It’s the final day of the blog tour for Silenced, published on the 7th December by Hobeck Books, and I’m delighted to share my review.

My Thoughts

A shocking opening sets the scene for Jennie Ensor’s latest novel. Teenager Solita Milton is walking home from school, thinking about what to buy her sister for a birthday gift and her determination to work hard at school, get good grades which hopefully will pave the way to university and her goal of being a social worker.

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29Nov2021

Dark Is The Grave: A DCI Bone Scottish Crime Thriller by TG Reid #BookReview for #RBRT #CrimeThriller

Posted in Book Review, Crime, Fiction, Murder/Mystery, Police Procedural, Thriller by Cathy

Author: TG Reid

Published: July 2021 by Glass Works Press

Category: Police Procedural, Fiction , Crime Thriller

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When the chief suspect in the notorious Peek-a-boo cop killer case blew himself up, almost taking lead investigator DCI Duncan Bone with him, the psychologically damaged detective thought his days on the force were over. But when another PC is abducted and murdered in the same deranged Peek-a-boo fashion, Bone is persuaded to return to lead the new investigation. But as Bone and his team hunt a copycat killer, and with time running out before yet another cop is slain, Bone’s terrifying past returns to tear open old wounds and push him to very edge of the abyss.

Can DCI Bone end the killing before the killing ends him?

Set among the dramatic hills and glens of Scotland’s Campsie Fells, Dark is the Grave is the first in a series of edge-of-your-seat crime thrillers that will keep you guessing right up to the nail-biting, heart-stopping climax.

Dark Is The Grave opens with a horrific prologue. PC Hazel Garvey has been abducted and buried alive, a crime which is reminiscent of the Peek-a-Boo serial killer who was killed in an explosion. Also caught in the explosion and seriously injured was DCI Duncan Bone. He was lucky to be alive. Left to cope with PTSD and a ruined home life, he was physically and mentally damaged, which probably accounts for his general irascibility.

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23Nov2021

#SpotlightFeature ~ The Arcane by Andrew S. French #SupernaturalThriller #TuesdayBookBlog @andrewfrench100 @rararesources

Posted in Promo, Spotlight, Supernatural, Thriller by Cathy

For my stop on the blog tour for The Arcane, a supernatural thriller, I have a spotlight feature courtesy of Rachel’s Random Resources.

Here’s what the book is about…

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20Oct2021

#GuestPost by #author Jim Alexander on Writing a Sequel @JimPlanetjimbot

Posted in Crime, Fiction, Guest Post, Thriller by Cathy

I’m delighted to welcome Jim Alexander with his guest post about writing Good Cop (a sequel to GoodCopBadCop) which was published on 7th October.

Over to you, Jim…

Picture the scene. I’m sitting across the table from someone. Let’s call him Person A. Person A asks me if I’m working on a sequel to my novel GoodCopBadCop. No spoilers here, but there could be an argument (at least that’s Person A’s view) to suggest the ending to GoodCopBadCop is ambiguous. And that, naturally, I should be thinking about a sequel. At the time in response, I’m pretty adamant. I’m not interested. I leave Person A in absolutely no doubt that there is no prospect of doing a follow-up. I’m done with that particular chapter (or collection of chapters).

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17Aug2021

The Perfect Lie by Jo Spain #CrimeFiction #Mystery @SpainJoanne @QuercusBooks #TuesdayBookBlog

Posted in Book Review, Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller by Cathy

Author: Jo Spain

Published: May 2021 by Quercus

Category: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Book Review

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He jumped to his death in front of witnesses. Now his wife is charged with murder.

Five years ago, Erin Kennedy moved to New York following a family tragedy. She now lives happily with her detective husband in the scenic seaside town of Newport, Long Island. When Erin answers the door to Danny’s police colleagues one morning, it’s the start of an ordinary day. But behind her, Danny walks to the window of their fourth-floor apartment and jumps to his death.

Eighteen months later, Erin is in court, charged with her husband’s murder. Over that year and a half, Erin has learned things about Danny she could never have imagined. She thought he was perfect. She thought their life was perfect.

But it was all built on the perfect lie.