Category Archives: Fiction

The Crossing by Michael Connelly

Posted on January 29, 2016 by bseat

Harry Bosch retired from the police; forced into it by being suspended for a minor infraction. He hired his brother, Mickey Haller, the so called Lincoln Lawyer, to sue the LAPD and so when he gets a call from Mickey … Continue reading →

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The Promise by Robert Crais

Posted on January 15, 2016 by bseat

Elvis Cole was hired to find Amy Breslyn who has vanished.  She had recently lost her son, a rising journalist who was killed in a terrorist bombing incident overseas.  Although she was grieving she seemed to be coping with this … Continue reading →

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The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan

Posted on December 18, 2015 by bseat

Grace Winter is twenty two years old and on trial for her life. The events she is on trial for occurred on a lifeboat she was on after the ship, the Empress Alexandra, exploded  one fateful summer night in 1914 … Continue reading →

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Last Words by Michael Koryta

Posted on December 11, 2015 by bseat

Markus Novak is a tortured man.  He and his wife, Lauren were working for a Florida based firm called Innocence Incorporated that defends death row inmates. As part of their investigation Lauren was going to interview a psychic who claimed … Continue reading →

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Disclaimer by Renee Knight

Posted on November 27, 2015 by bseat

Catherine Ravenscroft is living a fairly perfect life. She is an award winning documentary film maker and her husband, Robert, is a lawyer.  Their son, Nick, is finally out of the home, living on his own after a few shaky … Continue reading →

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You Will Never Find Me by Robert Wilson

Posted on November 20, 2015 by bseat

Amy Boxer is fed up with her life. Her parents are controlling, as only a cop and a private investigator can be. She hates school and doesn’t know what she wants to do, but she is certain that she doesn’t … Continue reading →

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The Hand That Feeds You by A. J. Rich

Posted on November 6, 2015 by bseat

Morgan Prager, a masters student at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has been working on her thesis exploring the idea that identifying what makes a victim could help change the definition of a predator.  To that end she … Continue reading →

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The Company of Strangers by Robert Wilson

Posted on October 30, 2015 by bseat

Andrea Aspinall, a  gifted young mathematician is recruited away from academia by the British intelligence service in 1944 to help them track Germany’s efforts to create a nuclear weapon.  Convinced that her mathematical skills will enable them to untangle German … Continue reading →

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The Investigation by J.M.Lee, Translated by Chi-Young Kim

Posted on October 23, 2015 by bseat

“Life may not have a purpose. But death requires clarity-not to prove that death occurred but for the benefit of those who survive.” And Yuichi Watanabe a Japanese soldier and prison guard during WWII, who is now charged as a … Continue reading →

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Alibi by Joseph Kanon

Posted on October 16, 2015 by bseat

Adam MIller is desperately tired. As a US Army War Crimes investigator he has been working in Germany to bring the Nazis to justice, but it has taken its toll and he struggles with the enormity of the evil he … Continue reading →

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