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Peter Swanson’s New Thriller Riffs On a Mystery Classic

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Bruce DeSilva

The elderly owner of a decaying hotel in Kennewick, Maine, is shoved to the ground, dragged to a tidal pool, and held there face down until he drowns. When police arrive, they find a crumpled piece of paper clutched in … Continue reading →

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My Review of Nick Petrie’s New Thriller

Posted on January 20, 2022 by Bruce DeSilva

Long haul trucker Roy Wiley is handsome and charming, so when he stops at a gas station in dreary Coldwater, Montana, the lonely 19-year-old girl working behind the counter begs him to take her with him. But Wiley is not … Continue reading →

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Raymond Fleischmann’s Debut Thriller — My Review

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Bruce DeSilva

Raymond Fleischmann’s new thriller, How Quickly She Disappears, is  a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game that will remind readers of the menacing dance between Hannibal Lecter and FBI agent Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs. Fleischmann tells his story with such … Continue reading →

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My Review of “Blood in the Water,” a New Thriller Set in Boston

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Bruce DeSilva

Jack Flynn does a fine job developing complex characters while keeping the tension high in Blood in the Water, his fast-paced yarn of intrigue, violence and personal betrayals. His prose, for the most part, is tight and precise. And his … Continue reading →

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Tensions Run High in C. J. Box’s New Cassie Dewell Thriller

Posted on August 16, 2019 by Bruce DeSilva

After losing her law enforcement job following a tumultuous serial killer investigation in Paradise Valley, Cassie Dewell resurfaces as a struggling private detective in C.J. Box’s new crime novel, The Bitterroots. Hired to examine what appears to be an open … Continue reading →

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My Review of “Lost You” by Haylen Beck, AKA Stuart Neville

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Bruce DeSilva

Surrogacy — in which a woman agrees to carry a baby for another person or couple — is a legal swamp in America, and in this, veteran crime novelist Stuart Neville, writing under the pen name Haylen Beck, has found … Continue reading →

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Ben Coes, Thriller Writer, Has a Temper Tantrum

Posted on July 30, 2019 by Bruce DeSilva

I didn’t find anything to like about The Russians, the new thriller by Ben Coes, but I WAS amused by his petulant temper tantrum over my review for the Associated Press. I rarely write negative book reviews. I think life … Continue reading →

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My Review of “The Perfect Liar,” a New Crime Novel by Thomas Christopher Greene

Posted on January 17, 2019 by Bruce DeSilva

The great thing about being an artist, Max tells his students, is that you can imagine things into being. But only he knows the extremes to which he has taken that. Max lacks the academic credentials for his job as … Continue reading →

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Check Out My Review of T. Jefferson Parker’s “Swift Vengeance”

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Bruce DeSilva

For the last decade or so, T. Jeffferson Parker has been using the popular form of the thriller to explore the pressing issues of our day. His previous series, an uneven but sometimes brilliant one featuring undercover cop Charlie Hood, … Continue reading →

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My Review of Jon Land’s New Caitlin Strong Thriller

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Bruce DeSilva

Caitlin Strong, a trigger-happy, often insubordinate, fifth-generation Texas Ranger, is back in Strong Cold Dead,  another rollicking Jon Land adventure that reads like a cross between a Randolph Scott Western, a Steven King horror story and a Jason Bourne movie … Continue reading →

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