Tag Archives: thriller

The Brass Verdict

Posted on March 6, 2025 by smellincoffee

Attorney Mickey Haller hasn’t been practicing law the last year or so, having been recuperating from being shot and a subsequent addiction to pain meds that could have destroyed his life. On the verge of getting back in the game, … Continue reading →

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Camino Ghosts

Posted on March 2, 2025 by smellincoffee

In The Guardians, readers were teased with a voodoo-cursed cabin that..ended up never being visiting again, causing me to wonder why on Earth it had been included to begin with. Camino Ghosts revisits not that cabin, but the general premise … Continue reading →

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The Death of Mrs Westaway

Posted on December 30, 2024 by smellincoffee

Hal is a working girl in a bind. She had to take over her mother’s tarot shop after she lost her to a reckless driver, and while she can usually keep her head above the water weaving stories from the … Continue reading →

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The Last App

Posted on September 19, 2024 by smellincoffee

If there was an app that could crunch all the numbers of your medical history, diet, lifestyle, etc, and predict how many days you have to live — would you try it? The Last App opens with that premise, featuring … Continue reading →

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Pride and Premeditation

Posted on July 26, 2024 by smellincoffee

Liz Bennet’s mother wants to marry her and her four sisters off, but Liz has something more interesting in mind for her life than men — most of whom, her father aside, she has little use for. She wants to … Continue reading →

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The Turn of the Key

Posted on July 16, 2024 by smellincoffee

This….book. I was twenty minutes late returning from lunch because of it, I burned a pizza because of it, I didn’t even notice the thunderstorm was over and it was safe to go in the pool I was housesitting because … Continue reading →

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One Perfect Couple

Posted on July 13, 2024 by smellincoffee

Lyla is a frustrated virologist in a relationship with an equally frustrated aspiring actor — so when Nico tells her they’ve been invited to join a new reality show called One Perfect Couple, she hesitantly accepts. A reality TV show … Continue reading →

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Extinct: searching for murder amid the mammoths

Posted on July 5, 2024 by smellincoffee

Frankie Cash, newly promoted to Agent in Charge at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, has just received a whale of a first case. In an isolated park in the Colorado Mountains, where visitors go to see de-extincted species like woolly … Continue reading →

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A Daughter of Fair Verona

Posted on June 27, 2024 by smellincoffee

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was a cautious tale about the dangers of pride and unbridled passion. A Daughter of Fair Verona says phooey on that, tweaks Shakespeare so that our teenage lovers prove too incompetent to actually do … Continue reading →

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Fan Fiction

Posted on June 22, 2024 by smellincoffee

First up: do not read this. Do not read this. Listen to it. Reading this is the equivalent of getting your knowledge of War and Peace from a Wishbone classics edition. Fan Fiction is an audiobook that’s transcended to the … Continue reading →

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