Thrillers from Harlan Coban, Francine Mathews and David Rollins are on My Reading Horizon!
So yesterday I got caught you up on the books that I have read over the last several weeks. Now let’s move into the present and onto the future. Currently, I am reading The Secret Crown by Chris Kuzneski, which is book number 6 of 8 in the series that features Jonathan Payne and Douglas Jones. This will be the fourth book that I have read by Kuzneski and they have not been read in order. The most recent book I read was The Death Relic which is book 7, the two others are books 2 and 4, leaving me 1, 3,5 and 8 to read. I recently added book one The Plantain to my Kindle library. so I guess that’s next!
Now on to the three new thrillers I added to my “to be read shelf” after my last trip to the library. The first one is the latest from Harlan Coban Fool Me Once. From Goodreads….
Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe—who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past before she can face the unbelievable truth about her husband—and herself. Read More
I just read the first several pages last night and I am still waiting for the hook. But I know that as soon as Harlan catches me, I won’t be able to put the books down! So I better read a little more in The Secret Crown before dipping back into Fool Me Once!!
The next thriller is one that I saw at Barnes & Noble on my most recent visit last week, Jack 1939 by Francine Mathews. Again from Goodreads…..
It’s the spring of 1939, and the prospect of war in Europe looms large. The United States has no intelligence service. In Washington, D.C., President Franklin Roosevelt may run for an unprecedented third term and needs someone he can trust to find out what the Nazis are up to. His choice: John F. Kennedy.
It’s a surprising selection. At twenty-two, Jack Kennedy is the attractive but unpromising second son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Roosevelt’s ambassador to Britain (and occasional political adversary). But when Jack decides to travel through Europe to gather research for his Harvard senior thesis, Roosevelt takes the opportunity to use him as his personal spy. The president’s goal: to stop the flow of German money that has been flooding the United States to buy the 1940 election—an election that Adolf Hitler intends Roosevelt lose. Read More
I thought that the premise of the book sounded really intriguing! Here’s what author Iain Pears writes about the book:
“A triumph: an exciting thriller, an intriguing exploration of a troubled time, and an absorbing take on the early history of one of America’s most iconic figures. Highly recommended”
Sounds great to me!!
The final thriller is one that I saw as I was browsing through the stacks, A Knife Edge by David Rollins. I guess the name Rollins caught my eye as did the picture of the Capital building on the spine of the book. A Knife Edge is the second book in Rollins’ Vin Cooper series. From Goodreads…..
In this latest internationally bestselling thriller from David Rollins, author of The Death Trust, a bizarre murder leads an ex–Air Force special investigator into a shadow world of conspiracy, cover-up, and military secrecy where the difference between friend or foe is thin as…
A scientist meets a grisly end when he falls from a military research ship and is attacked by a two-ton white shark off the Japanese coast. By the time Special Investigator Vin Cooper reaches the scene, there’s literally very little left to prove that the death wasn’t an accident. But Cooper’s instincts tell him that he’s looking at murder and that in assigning him to this case someone might just as well have shoved him, too, into shark-infested waters. Read More
This one sounds exciting too. I just hope he David lives up to his last name Rollins and is as good as James!!
Now the good thing is that all of these thrillers are great, but I do think that I need to go back and review my Reading Challenges and in June pick out some books that fit the challenge categories!!
