Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in mass market), 310 pages, 2005 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: It looked like it would be fun in an Ocean’s Eleven kind of way. Synopsis: It’s bad guy vs. bad guy vs. bad guy as groups of criminals plot to come away richer at the expense of the other […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Mass market, 427 pages, 2004 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: I was running low on my supply of thrillers by the authors I usually read; time to try someone new! Synopsis: In a previous novel (The Poet) Rachel Walling, an FBI agent shipped off to the boonies for previous bad conduct, believed […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Trade, 249 pages, 2004 Rating: 8/10 Reason for Reading: Mosley’s name rang a bell from the movie based on his book Devil in a Blue Dress…even though I never saw it. I was also in the mood for something nice and short. Synopsis: Charles Blakey is a thirty-three year old black man […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in mass market), 348 pages, 2004 Rating: 7/10 Reason for Reading: I saw Codex while browsing through an Amazon Hot 100 List. Synopsis: Edward Wozny is supposed to on a two-week vacation before he’s transfered from NYC to another investment banking firm in England, but at the request of an […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in mass-market), 424 pages, 2002 Rating: 7/10 Reason for Reading: I’ve been trying to restrain myself from racing through all of Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme series, but couldn’t stop myself from reading The Stone Monkey, the fourth book (of five) in the series. Synopsis: When a ship carrying illegal Chinese immigrants […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in mass-market), 411 pages, 2000 Rating: 10/10 Reason for Reading: I got into Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme series thanks to a recommendation at Book Crazy, and I’ve found they make excellent slump-breakers. This is the third in the series. Synopsis: Criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his protégé Amelia Sachs abandon the bustle […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in mass market), 454 pages, 2003 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: One of 2003’s big (if not biggest) buzz books. Synopsis: Robert Langdon, a symbologist, is called to the scene of a murder in the Louvre after disturbing codes are found on and around the dead body. With the help […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in mass market), 342 pages, 2003 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: Gerritsen is the best forensic science-based thriller writer around. Synopsis: It’s almost impossible to imagine – one nun murdered and another left for dead in a savage attack in a church in a secluded nunnery. Medical examiner Maura Isles, […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in mass market), 306 pages, 2003 Rating: 6/10 Reason for Reading: It’s hard to resist reading a book in a series, even if you were less than impressed with the previous book or two. Synopsis: Tempe Brennan, forensic anthropologist, returns in the sixth book in Reich’s series. Using her forensic […]