Category Archives: Suspense

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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The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu and Translated by Ken Liu

Posted on September 4, 2015 by bseat

The search for alien life has been going on for more than thirty years, but if you are like me you don’t think about it about it very much, except when you watch the movie Independence Day and see the … Continue reading →

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All The Old Knives by Olen Steinhauer

Posted on August 28, 2015 by bseat

Six years after the dreadful hijacking in Vienna and the resulting loss of life of those on the plane, Henry Pelham is traveling to California to visit, Celia, a former colleague and lover who was working in Vienna with him … Continue reading →

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Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon

Posted on August 7, 2015 by bseat

Alex Meier has made a devil’s bargain. In exchange for making the McCarthy Committee’s investigations into his youthful fling with communism before World War II go away, the CIA wants him to return to Berlin and act as their spy. … Continue reading →

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