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178 reviews
Chelsea Cain

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008

Eyes wide open...
Eyes wide open... Chelsea Cain's latest offering Sweetheart, like Heartsick, reads like the interaction of various conscious and unconscious mental or emotional processes, especially as they influence personality, behavior, and attitudes. I would not recommend reading this book before going to bed! Modern, Gruesome, Psychodynamic. --Katharena Eiermann, 2008

The Secret History

536 reviews
Donna Tartt

Vintage, 2004

A Very Powerful Novel
I have just completed reading this novel for a second time, having initially read it shortly after it was first published. Then, as now, I simply did not want it to end; and each time I put it aside, I did so reluctantly. The rarely seen, but always present force behind this novel is Julian, a classics teacher at an elite school in Vermont. Around him gathers a small cadre of select students. ...

The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel (Lincoln Rhyme)

75 reviews
Jeffery Deaver

Simon & Schuster, 2008

George Orwell and Aldous Huxley are spinning in their graves!
"1984" and "Brave New World" gave us a brief glimpse of the world they feared we were creating but "The Broken Window" takes it over the top. Every reader will shiver as they come to grips with the realization of just how much the state likely knows about their life. In "The Broken Window", Jeffrey Deaver has pitted Lincoln Rhyme, his famous paraplegic forensic consultant, against his most ...

Once Were Cops: A Novel

20 reviews
Ken Bruen

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008

"Shake Hands with the Devil"
There is magic in Ken Bruen's unadorned prose that is not easily identified. But once you've read it, you may wonder why it takes other authors paragraphs to conjure an image that Bruen knocks off in a single line, making it look easy. And once you've read him, you'll never mistake for anyone else in his uncluttered style telling of life on those mean streets outside the pages of "People ...

Run for Your Life (Michael Bennett)
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge

Little, Brown and Company, 2009

A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City , killing the powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear: remember your manners or suffer the consequences! For some, it seems that the rich are finally getting what they deserve. For New York 's elite, it is a call to terror. Only one man can tackle such a high-profile case: Detective Mike Bennett. The pressure is enough for anyone, but Mike also has to ...

Shadow Country (Modern Library)

11 reviews
Peter Matthiessen

Modern Library, 2008

Matthiessen does it again!
Shadow Country (Modern Library) I wondered why I should read another 900 pages of the Mr Watson saga. After all, I'd already ready the previous Watson books. But since i am a huge Peter Matthiessen fan I bought the book anyway. Time and money well spent, this is another masterpiece. He takes the reader so deep into the Florida backcountry of yesterday that you, like me, will probably catch ...

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

770 reviews
Erik Larson

Vintage, 2004

Time machine
This book makes me wish I had a time machine to go back and see the White City in person. I work in downtown Chicago and I walk by many of the buildings described in the book every day. I find it fascinating to think of what Chicago must have been like in 1893. Of course the story of HH Holmes is also fascinating and frightening. It makes me think that people were more trusting and naive back ...

Adam

50 reviews
Ted Dekker

Thomas Nelson, 2008

The ultimate psychological thriller
To say that this novel is a psychological thriller is an understatement. The human psyche is deeply explored, as well as more about spiritual forces than at first glance. It's also not just a serial killer book, though that is one aspect. Abuse, fear, evil, victimization, freedom of choice, religion, triumph over evil, truth over lies, courage, and love all have a part in the whole. But the whole ...

American Psycho

1078 reviews
Bret Easton Ellis

Vintage, 1991

Not for those with a weak stomach!
I had been meaning to read this book for a long time, and I must say that I am glad to have finally read it. There is horror and gore in this book, but the only purpose is not to make you sick. Pat Bateman exists in a society that most of us will never understand. His ability to keep up appearances in a world filled with designer clothes and daily facials in the face of such a psychopathic, ...

Change of Heart: A Novel

189 reviews
Jodi Picoult

Atria, 2008

Changes Hearts and Minds
If you've read earlier reviews, you know the storyline: June's first husband died in a car accident leaving her with a small daughter. The police officer who brought the bad news becomes the knight on the white steed, wooing and winning her and her daughter's affections. Then, just as in old fairy tales, when June is married to the policeman, pregnant and renovating their home, the idyll is ...

Thunderstruck

152 reviews
Erik Larson

Three Rivers Press, 2007

An Artful Reconstruction of History
A wonderful, exciting, and vivid look at what life may have been like for and in the time of Guglielmo Marconi, (often cited as the inventor of but, more accurately, the first to successfully commercialize wireless communication). The author painstakingly reconstructs many events in Marconi's life and juxtaposes them against the life of the notorious English murderer Dr. H. H. Crippen using ...

Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster

14 reviews
Harold Schechter

Pocket Star, 2004

One of true crime's best
This is one of Schechter's best, and IMHO, one of the best true crime novels I have read. It is about a murderer/rapist nicknamed the Gorilla Man, who seemed to be "cursed" from birth. He was abnormal from the beginning and lived a bizarre lifestyle his whole life. Both of his parents had and died of syphillis--it makes you wonder if this disease somehow affected this child's brain and warped ...

Odd Thomas

476 reviews
Dean Koontz

Bantam, 2006

What an interesting protagonist Odd is!
Book 1 is my favorite Odd Thomas book, to-date. Awesome story with a memorable character. I thought about Odd long after I put the book down, and it definitely made me want to read more. I started on Forever Odd (book 2) the same evening. Dean Koontz has created a very interesting character and some witty dialogue and humor. While it might not be as dark as most of his other works, Odd Thomas ...

Whistling In the Dark

66 reviews
Lesley Kagen

NAL Trade, 2007

Classic
This book is right up there with To Kill A Mockingbird. It is destined, I'm sure, to be a classic. What a delight to be transported to that time and place with such colorful characters. It would make a fabulous movie.

Cell: A Novel

909 reviews
Stephen King

SCRIBNER PUBLISHING, 2006

This book freaked me out!
I'm a huge King fan and this book was no disappointment. Zombies and worldwide phenomena are hot items and King delivered. I'd like to see more.

The Night Stalker: A Novel of Suspense

6 reviews
James Swain

Ballantine Books, 2008

Topnotch writing you expect from Swain
James Swain's latest book is fast paced and riveting, with more twists than a roller coaster-just what you'd expect from him. Abb Grimes spent twelve years on death row for murdering eighteen women that had gone missing. Jack Carpenter helped put him there. And now Abb Grimes needs help. His grandson has been abducted and he wants Carpenter to find him. And Carpenter is good at finding missing ...

Skin

70 reviews
Ted Dekker

Thomas Nelson, 2007

A mindblowing concept; well done, Ted
This book was an amazing breakthrough for Ted's career. Writing a book for the secular market was a smart move because it will cause readers that may be non-believers to want to read his other material that has more Christian-themed messages. In many interviews, Ted Dekker specifically said he was not writing this book to have obvious spiritual concepts but was targeting secular audiences with ...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

407 reviews
Patrick Suskind

Vintage, 2001

A scentillating examination of a murderer's mind!
Humans that are deprived of one or more of the senses naturally compensate by focusing and overdeveloping the remaining senses. Suskind brilliantly chose to deprive Grenouille of something other than senses, the ability to be recognized. I don't believe any human in history had a complete absence of a body scent, whether it's a pleasant or unpleasant one; we all associate places, loved ones, ...

For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago

12 reviews
Simon Baatz

Harper, 2008

The Legend of Leopold and Loeb Comes To Life!
Despite the fact that Bobby Franks's grizzly murder took place in 1924, the subsequent trial of Leopold and Loeb has never let go of our collective imaginations. When one reads For the Thrill of It, one can easily understand why. The murder of Bobby Franks by wealthy teenagers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb touces on many issues that are still fervently talked about today: the limits of ...

The Darker Side

9 reviews
Cody Mcfadyen

Bantam, 2008

Everyone has a secret...
Smoky Barrett is no stranger to violent crime. She sees it every day in her job as an FBI Special Agent, but she has also experienced it firsthand. Three years ago, her husband and daughter were killed by a serial killer Smoky was chasing. The same man brutalized Smoky, leaving her face horribly disfigured. Her personal tragedies give Smoky a unique insight into both the mind of a killer and the ...

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