by Billbrown | Jun 3, 2016 | Action Adventure, Book reviews, Murder Mystery, Suspense Thriller, Thriller Novels
“Kane” – This police procedural novel is a very good blend of a police manhunt for a smart, vicious serial killer, who is every bit as nasty as Thomas Harris’s Francis Dolarhyde and Hannibal Lecter. That is juxtaposed by the extensive backstory...
by Billbrown | May 24, 2016 | Action Adventure, Book reviews, Murder Mystery, My writing blog, Suspense Thriller
Book Review – This is a very good Harry Bosch novel by Michael Connelly. You don’t need to know anything else. Connelly is the best in the business. The stories are always about watching Harry Bosch slowly pick at the threads of a mystery, one thread at a...
by Billbrown | May 24, 2016 | Action Adventure, action thriller, Book reviews, Good fiction writing, My writing blog, Suspense Thriller
A Wanted Man – I’m not sure what Lee Child has against Nebraska and its surrounding states, but he has placed several recent novels in that setting. Not just Nebraska, but Nebraska in winter, with flat, cold, muddy, stubbly cornfields. This story, like a...
by Billbrown | Jan 26, 2016 | Action Adventure, American Sniper, Delta Force, FBI Murder Mystery, mafia murder mystery, Murder Mystery, Suspense Thriller
“Burke’s Gamble” – It is the ‘American Sniper’ meets ‘The Godfather,’ Round #2, or Bob Lee Swagger takes on the New York City mob. In last year’s best selling “Burke’s War,” Bob Burke witnessed a woman being murdered, and ends up...
by Billbrown | Apr 26, 2015 | Action Adventure, action thriller, Book reviews, Middle East Thrillers, Suspense Fiction
The Heist – Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon stories are always entertaining and he’s one of the best writer of spy novels in the business, but I’m beginning to have three bones to pick with his story telling. First, too many of his books have the...
by Billbrown | Aug 26, 2014 | Action Adventure, Book reviews, Murder Mystery, Thriller Novels
A book review by Bill Brown of John D McDonald’s Travis McGee mystery story, “Dress Her in Indigo.” I think I discovered John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee thriller novels when I was a senior in high school and devoured all 21 at least once....
