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First the Dead by Tim Downs – Review
First the Dead (Bug Man Series #3) by Tim Downs
No TagCSI lovers rejoice “the bug man” is here. A forensic entomologist is sent to New Orleans to prepare for Katrina, and be ready to process the dead. He’s told to save the living first then work on the others, but he wants to preserve evidence of murder before it washes away. He commandeers a boat, rescues a 10 year old boy and of course promptly finds a suspicious body. They team up and float all over the 9th Ward finding evidence of an active murderer. They also look for the child’s father.
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Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski – Review
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Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski Thirty-seven year old reporter Mickey Wade recently lost his position at the Philadelphia City News. Broke and heeding his mom’s advice, he moves into the apartment of his ailing grandfather to reduce his costs and to help care for his elderly relative. The Frankford neighborhood is nasty; worse than when he
Broken by Travis Thrasher – Review
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Spellwright by Blake Charlton – Review
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Spellwright by Blake Charlton Spellwright, when looked at beyond the fascinating concept of using dyslexia to create new plot tensions, is at its heart a simple tale. There are forces of good, mysterious arcane forces, and nefarious, menacing forces of evil. Nicodemus and his mentor, the wizard Shannon, find themselves trying to clear their name
Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett – Review
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Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett “Mr. Shivers” is set during the Great Depression of the 1930s, in a western America leached gray and dry until it resembles a lunar wasteland. The whole world seems to be dying, with nearly all its inhabitants sick or hungry and desperate. Across this hopeless, ravaged landscape there travels
Thriller Books: the World of Books is Finally Coming Out of the Blues
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It has always been said that books are a man’s best friend, this is because a man can learn several lessons of life without actually getting involved in them in the real sense. Apart from that, one can have an easy access to writings of knowledge, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, thriller and biography to stay
The 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch – Review
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Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child – Review
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Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin – Review
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Singing to the Dead by Caro Ramsay – Review
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Writing a Great Novel – The Secret Every Writer Needs to Know
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