Category Archives: Suspense

We Begin At The End by Chris Whitaker

Posted on December 3, 2021 by bseat

Duchess Day Radley, at thirteen years old, is carrying more than her share of responsibility. Her mother, Star, seems incapable of taking care of herself much less Duchess and her five year old brother, Robin.  Fiercely independent and ferocious in … Continue reading →

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Constance by Matthew Fitzsimmons

Posted on November 12, 2021 by bseat

What would you do if you had no memory of what happened in the last eighteen months of your life? What if during those lost months you did something to anger a lot of people who are now after you … Continue reading →

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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Posted on November 5, 2021 by bseat

Lost in space, overcoming enormous obstacles and always duct taping something together in order to survive. Those are the things I think of when I see a book by Andy Weir, and Project Hail Mary is no exception. When Ryland … Continue reading →

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Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

Posted on October 29, 2021 by bseat

Sometimes I come across a book that is an “almost.” It is almost a compulsive read, it is almost a intriguing plot, it is almost profound, but not quite. There is just something that prevents it from being those things … Continue reading →

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Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger

Posted on October 15, 2021 by bseat

I have really enjoyed reading novels by Krueger. His This Tender Land and Ordinary Grace are quite extraordinary and are on a par with Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead series in terms of the prose and their evocative characters and themes. But Krueger … Continue reading →

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The Plotters by Un-Su Kim (Translated by Sora Kim-Russell)

Posted on October 1, 2021 by bseat

An assassin must fulfill the requirements of the job they are hired to do. Reseng knows this because he was raised by and now works for one of the most famous killers of all time, Old Raccoon, who runs a … Continue reading →

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Istanbul Passage by Joseph Kanon

Posted on September 10, 2021 by bseat

There are usually two kinds of spy stories: the thriller/action type like The Red Sparrow series by Jason Matthews or Shanghai Factor by Charles McCarry and the the more cerebral/thinking type like John Le Carré’s  Agent Running in the Field … Continue reading →

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The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

Posted on August 27, 2021 by bseat

This book has everything; spies, romance, code breaking, strong female characters and an intriguing plot. Quinn, who wrote The Huntress and The Alice Network, which I previously reviewed, is quickly turning into one of my ‘go to” authors. In 1940 … Continue reading →

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The Distant Hours by Kate Morton

Posted on August 6, 2021 by bseat

Do you ever lose books? It doesn’t seem it was as easy to lose books when I bought physical books, since I could usually visualize in what bookcase and in what room I had shelved it, but since I went … Continue reading →

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One by One by Ruth Ware

Posted on July 30, 2021 by bseat

Ruth Ware has an ingeniously disturbed mind! The first book I read by Ware was In a Dark, Dark Wood. The title says it all and it kept me up at night.  The next book was, The Woman in Cabin … Continue reading →

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