Great thriller with memorable characters
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The title of this book initially put me off because I'd got it on sale and couldn't remember what it was about, so I bypassed it on my Kindle several times. Once I got reading though, I virtually could not put it down. Thoroughly gripping, the characters were so well-drawn I never lost track of who they were. Highly recommended!
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I enjoyed reading this book.  It had everything I like in a good thriller.  The heroine was vulnerable but strong.  She did not have to be rescued but accepted help when needed.  The romantic parts were good but did not take over the story.  When humanity encounters something different and stronger, the initial reaction is fear.  This story makes you look at the issues from both sides.
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I'm glad that the negative reviews on Amazon UK (which set their own standard for unreadability) did not deter me from reading this thriller, which is well-crafted and absorbing. Without giving anything away there are several strands which provide what it's fashionable to call a social commentary; the television expos, the faux psychic, the withdrawn but creative schoolkid, and the soft-hearted thug, to name but four. Of course you can pick holes in the plot if you so choose, but the same is true of Raymond Chandler novels, and I find it significant that the people who criticise on that count never specify just what flaws they've found.
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Tess Devlin delivers a psychological thriller about a serial killer.  As a mystery novel, this book has all the elements needed. Set in Chicago, in the 1950's, in a predominantly Irish community, the unraveling of the killer is a page-turner. When Kate, a young child goes missing, this tight-knit community searches to find her, only to find her dead body. We get a glimpse inside the killer's mind in some dramatic scenes.
Devlin does an excellent job with the diverse cast of characters, but reads more like a script for a movie, than a book. Too many characters are introduced to follow them all, and the reader may feel a little lost at times with all the names of the kids in the community, but the writing is superb and realistic. The plot twist is vital to mystery novels, and Wallace Street indeed has so many twists and turns that keep you hanging on to find out who the serial killer is among the community. There are a few grammatical errors, and the book is in need of a few edits, but the story and plot can be seen turning into a movie. If you love to read mystery novels, and especially the sort with serial killers, then you will love this book. The portrayal of Chicago in the 1950's and the community gave the book an authentic feel. I highly recommend it.
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It 's a gripping thriller, adventurous, with many compelling characters and an engaging and well built storyline.
Jackie Walls and Jeremy Cobin are a young American couple from New Jersey. He has a shop, she is a police officer and they have a beautiful baby girl, Annie. During  their trip very adventurous in Europe they have known Eytan Morgestern that helped and rescued them. Jackie and Jeremy have not heard from him until he reappears in their lives to save them again from an attacks. This time offers them to join him in his fight. During World War II, in Poland, he was victim of an experiment: now they're looking because they want to study him and maybe try to repeat the experiment on other people. Their team also belong  Eli Karman, an old man, Greg, responsible for the security of Jackie and Jeremy, and Avi, a charming doctor. Can they defend and save him?
The various characters in this novel are many and all well characterized. Eytan is a brave man although mysterious, is an Israeli agent, his past  not know anyone with accuracy. He was deported to a camp in Poland during the war and they underwent him an experiment. Jackie is a brave woman, with a strong sense of duty. She loves her family but also loves her work which performs in an excellent way.
It 's a thriller adventurous and exciting, full of twists, suspense and mystery. In this story, nothing is missing: there is conspiracy, sects and secret alliance. attacks, war strategies, experiments and can not miss a bit of love and romance. It 's very well written, with a style and a language simple and essential, also the various descriptions are minimalist and effective, enrich the text but does not make it heavy and boring. The pace is very fast and captivating: the history alternate continuously past and present, and often changes the city in which the action takes place. We pass continuously from Poland of 1942/43, to the contemporary New Jersey, through present and wartime London and with escape briefly to Tel-Aviv.
It's the third book in the series "Consortium Thriller", can be read as a stand-alone but for an easier and understandable reading, I recommend reading the series in order.
I recommend it to those who love thrillers and novels full of action and adventure
I have received this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
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I liked everything about this thriller: the richly drawn characters, the exotic setting, the taut storyline, and the perfect pacing. Peyton's knowledge of Mexican culture is evident and is intricately interwoven in this unique novel. Artemas is a worthy protagonist, trying to fight corruption in a country steeped in it. While there are disturbing scenes of violence, they are done tastefully and there is even comic relief when the medical examiner from a neighboring town can't help but make a wry comment (gallows humor) about all the gruesome murders happening in Bustamante. The novel is realistic with a touch of mysticism that keeps the reader wondering what is really happening and what is going to happen. And just what is that winged creature that is decimating the goat population? Great suspense.
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I really enjoyed this book.  Despite some of the reviews that said they could not "like"the character, I found no problem.  The main character can be rough and a bit off center, however, he has to be to endure what he does in this thriller of a story.  This is a book that I would likely read again.  You won't be disappointed.
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THE EDGE OF NORMAL is a thriller, a genre I've been reading more of this year.  I blame GONE GIRL.  It's not that I loved GONE GIRL (I just liked it), but that publishers are giving their thrillers more of a push.  And why not?  Thrillers have a wide ranging appeal.  They're fast, but have to be clever to deliver twists.  They're driven by plot, but often require psychological depth.

Reeve LeClaire was held captive for three years.  Her kidnapper was caught only because of a freak car accident.  Six years later, she's still recovering when her therapist asks her to travel across the country and speak to young girl, Tilly, who was recently rescued from her kidnapper.  He thinks it will help both Reeve and Tilly.  It does, but it soon becomes apparent that there's more going on in Tilly's case, and that it isn't as open and shut as it seemed.  There's two other missing girls, Abby and Hannah, and Tilly could be the key to finding them in time.

THE EDGE OF NORMAL switches between points of view, and it's a rare example of villain point of view done well.  The passages narrated by the villain reveal how he keeps staying one step ahead, when otherwise the plotting might fall apart.  The passages are also careful not to reveal his real name.  You know he's in other scenes, but it's often hard to guess which person he might be.

I also liked that the book wasn't overly sensational.  This is Carla Norton's fiction debut, but she has a background in true crime writing.  Reeve and Tilly have been through terrible things, but the focus on them is not that terrible things happened, but how they're moving on.  Reeve keeps a secret for Tilly perhaps longer than she should, but it's clear she wants the girl to have as much control and trust as possible.

I also like that unlike many thriller heroines, Reeve goes to the police pretty quickly.  (She's laughed off, because the plot wouldn't work otherwise, but I like that she went to the authorities like a normal person.)  Reeve gets a couple of potential romantic storylines, but they don't go very far since they aren't about perfunctory romance, but Reeve opening up to chance.

THE EDGE OF NORMAL will leave you at the edge of your seat.  I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and hope Norton keeps on with this fiction thing.  THE EDGE OF NORMAL has fascinating, complex characters, a twisting, fast-paced plot, and it lingers in the mind afterwards.  It's everything a good thriller should be.
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Fast-paced modern thriller with fun characters and great dialogue. This story takes the domestic terrorist threat to places none of want to consider. Once I got to the middle of the book, I couldn't put it down.
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Four friends - Frauke, Tamara, Kris and his brother Wolf - all have been having difficulty in creating the life they want.  One fateful night they come up with a plan - they create a company that will apologize for those who refuse to apologize for themselves.  It's a brilliant plan and they're very successful.  Then, one day, Wolf walks into an apartment and finds a dead woman, nailed to the wall through her hands and forehead.  The four find themselves involved in a situation they never expected - and may not survive ...

Brilliant and chilling, this book is very intense.  Written in a mixture of second and first-person narratives, mainly in present tense, it quickly hauls  you into the story and doesn't let you go until you've finished the last page, at which point you will find yourself breathless.  Anyone who enjoys a good thriller should love "Sorry."  Don't miss it!
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I loved this book. It kept me reading until long after my wife was ready to turn out the light. It has a powerful plot, strong and developed characters and clever twists that surprised me, even though I was sure I was ahead of the story. I wasn't. And after I was finished reading, I still couldn't sleep. The scenarios are so real they appear in current headlines. I highly recommend this book to anyone who appreciates an intelligent thriller.
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Pretty good thriller with some nice twists and turns. You really get into the mind of the paranoid main character, constantly feeling threats around every corner, consistently thinking each new person met could be a threat regardless of their suggested intentions. Things spin at a relatively nice and fast pace, building to a really fun climax. I immediately looked up the series and was happy to see the second book is coming in December of this year - I will definitely be checking it out.
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I applaud the author's choice to use a woman with highly functional autism as her lead character. The team she allows to build around her, a law enforcement detective, criminals, a hacker and her mentor at the art insurance organization she works in, introduces us to different individual characteristics that make for very interesting study. The science of body and facial language is liberally shared in this thriller and provides interesting side bars to the story.

Genevieve Lenard, highly skilled in reading facial and body language, lover of lists and with the ability to find patterns in behavior and events, is called in to help solve the mystery behind the murder of an unidentified female with a piece of canvas identified as a Gauguin painting, a dead Russian who died shouting an apparently insensible riddle and stolen military weapons.

I don't know enough about autism to know if a person who has been thus diagnosed would so easily be able to master control over some of her coping mechanisms. In this case, our protagonist, at the beginning of the story, needs to write out Mozart compositions on music sheets in order to calm herself down, but over the course of a matter of days, she appears to no longer need that familiar coping mechanism but has managed to switched to just imagining writing the scores in her mind in order to calm herself down.

It's an interesting and entertaining thriller, not least because of the interplay between the characters and I'm looking forward to following this series.
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Oooh, this is GOOD.  A psychological thriller that grips you early on and becomes almost impossible to put down.  It's about a woman called Christine who wakes up every day with no idea who she is or where she is.  When she looks in the mirror she sees someone who's much older than she should be.  Her husband, Ben, has to explain to her who she is - and who he is - every morning.  An accident many years ago has left her with the ability to retain any short term memories, so every night the slate gets wiped clean and she starts again.

Then Christine gets a phone call from a Dr Nash who claims to be treating her.  He returns to her a journal in which she has been writing an account of what she does everyday.  On the first page she has written "Don't Trust Ben".

This is a terrific novel.  It's riveting and full of suspense.  We are restricted to Christine's perspective and so there's always the delicious sense of confusion - baffling events that appear sinister may have innocent explanations (and some of them do).  There were elements that I figured out but other parts kept me guessing until the end.  While not perfect, this is a very original and entertaining thriller.
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Jack Be Quick is a gem among small-press published thrillers. It's the story of a paramedic who works overnight shifts in Connecticut. After suffering an injury that left him reliant on opioids, our main character, Noah, finds his life sliding downhill. His personal demons force the woman he loves away. His addict fuels his personal demons until both his personal safety and career are on the line. Then, he finds himself dragged into a mystery puppeteered by a copy-cat murderer intent on recreating the killings of Jack the Ripper.

No matter what happened in life, the water remained the same. Rocking back and forth. Existing in a perpetual state of waiting.
From page one, I felt immediately immersed in Noah's word. The dialogue was quick and realistic. The characters were distinctive, but not overly saturated in unimportant detail. Having a crime novel interlaced with characters from the medical profession was a new genre to me, and I loved it. The medical lingo was especially thoroughIt always felt genuine and surrounded by enough context that I always understood what was going on among the bustle of EMTs and nurses.

As a character, Noah is a perfect combination of unreliable narrator and unstable hero. We see that his intentions are good. He wants to be happy. He wants everyone he loves to be safe and protected from both outside foes and his own angerbut time and time again we see him fail. Despite his shortcomings, I felt myself routing for a happy ending, one where Noah realizes the mistakes he's making and gets his life back on track. Despite this novel's numbered pages, we see Noah go through many different stages. In fact, all of the featured characters inJack Be Quickundergo some major change by the end of the novela choice that makes the story that much more believable.

Once I picked this book up, I could barely set it down. It flowed like a true thriller, pulling its reader along for the ride. I would highly recommend this book, especially to those who love immersive thrillers or fast-paced reads.
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The Healer by Christoph Fischer is a book you must read as soon as it is released. You do not want to run the risk that the buzz about the book will spoil this thriller for you. The book is, of course, well-written. Its a quick read that you will want to hurtle through in an afternoon, or over a weekend. At its core are interesting, enigmatic characters, and a clever plot. The story is told from the point of view of the main character, Erica Whittaker, who in midlife is diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. It comes as no surprise that shes desperate. Traditional medicine has nothing more to offer her. She is about to give up and accept her fate when, at the urging of her devoted office assistant, Hilda, Erica decides to pursue another path. That path takes her to the door of a once-renowned faith healer, Arpan. Using a different name, the man is, virtually, a recluse. A man with a mysterious past, Arpan also possesses a great gift, as testimonials from previous recipients of his healing bear out. He is, at first, reluctant to treat Erica. When he finally takes Erica on as a client, his treatment unleashes a series of unfortunate events, as big pharma and other opponents from his past, line up against him. Erica, who has secrets of her own, soon finds herself caught up in a web of intrigue, being stalked, cornered, and manipulated, fighting for her life. Will she survive? What will happen to Arpan, and those around him? Youll have to read the book, of course, to find out. Quite entertaining and well worth the read, this book is highly recommended.
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This is a well thought out thriller with great characters and human emotions. I enjoyed taking the trip to the Cottage with Rowena and meeting all her new friends as her life changes in so many ways. I hope LeAnn has more stories up her sleeve to entertain us again and again. Thank You!