Archive for the ‘Thriller’ Category
Thursday, July 1st, 2004
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 eccentric but ridiculously rich client, he finds himself cataloguing books. Something doesn’t quite add up, and he soon enlists a young female scholar to help him find a mysterious book that may or may not exist, and may have far-reaching consequences that someone wants to keep hidden…
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Thursday, July 1st, 2004
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 into America capsizes, criminalists Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs find themselves in a race to catch the notorious human smuggler whose elusive nature has earned him the nickname of the Ghost. At stake are the lives of the surviving immigrants, because there’s no way a driven criminal like the Ghost is going to leave behind any witnesses. With all of the Ghost’s underground crime connections it’s going to prove tough to find him, much less bring his killing spree to a halt.
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Friday, April 30th, 2004
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 of Manhattan for the University of North Carolina, where Rhyme wants to try a highly experimental procedure for quadriplegics, which may be his only hope to get mobility beyond his head and one pinky finger - if it doesn’t make him worse. Before he can even finish his first consultation, the local police are knocking on the door and asking for their help. A teenage boy has been murdered, and two girls are missing. They need Rhyme and Sachs’ help deciphering forensic clues to find them before it’s too late.
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2003
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 of Sophie Neveu, the two must race to prove Langdon’s innocence by cracking the codes that are somehow tied in with Leonardo Da Vinci’s works and a secret society.
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2003
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, with the help of Detective Jane Rizzoli, must uncover the secrets the dead have left her. The criminals are hiding things, certainly, but the investigation is hampered because it seems that nuns can have secrets too…
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003
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 skills, Tempe must find out what connections exist between a baby burned to a crisp in an oven, dead drug dealers, and bags of bones containing both bear and human remains. To think, she was supposed to be vacationing on the beach with a handsome detective…
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2003
Mass-market, 502 pages, 2001
Rating: 7/10
Reason for Reading: The title caught my eye when I was working at a bookstore.
Synopsis: Ray, married with a screaming colic baby, has taken a job as a schoolteacher and is quickly discovering real life isn’t quite as much fun as the games he’s played on his computer, or his times in college playing with a band. But real life takes a weird turn when he spies his ex-flatmate Simon, supposedly dead for three years, breezing through the airport, and Ray can’t help but think Simon and the terrorist activities in Britain are somehow linked…
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Saturday, August 16th, 2003
Hardcover (available in mass-market), 421 pages, 1997
Rating: 9/10
Reason for Reading: I liked The Blue Nowhere so thought I should start Deaver’s Lincoln Rhymes series.
Synopsis: Quadriplegic Detective Lincoln Rhymes, able to move only a finger and his head, is discussing assisted suicide with a doctor when the police force asks him for help on a case. Despite himself, he’s intrigued. A criminal is kidnapping people and leaving clues to their whereabouts - and if the police can’t crack the clues in time, the victim dies. Rhymes uses Officer Amelia Sachs as his eyes to do the legwork on the scenes. Despite her insistence that she’s been transferred to deskwork and isn’t trained in crime scene work, Sachs finds herself bagging and tagging bones and other gruesome evidence for forensic testing in order for Rhymes to use his brilliant mind to try and save the victims.
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Saturday, August 9th, 2003
Hardcover (available in mass-market), 326 pages, 2000
Rating: 9/10
Reason for Reading: Recommended at BookCrazy.
Synopsis: A number of teenagers in Algonquin Bay have gone missing, and Detective John Cardinal’s worst suspicions are confirmed with the discovery of the first body. Cardinal’s pursuit of the killer is impeded by problems at home, and his own criminal past being investigated, but he doesn’t have much time: another victim has been chosen.
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2003
Mass-market paperback, 505 pages, 2001
Rating: 9/10
Reason for Reading: Deaver was recommened at BookCrazy for a good thriller.
Synopsis: A cracker with the nickname Phate is using the Internet to collect information on innocent people - so he can then kill them. Baffled at his skill, police spring Wyatt Gillette, super-hacker, from jail to try and trace Phate and stop his killing spree.
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