Category Archives: Thriller

Our Kind of Traitor by John Le Carré

Posted on July 16, 2021 by bseat

Somehow I missed this book by John Le Carré when it came out in 2010! I imagine I was waiting for the price to go down or for it to show up in my library queue. Whatever the reason it … Continue reading →

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The Last Flight by Julie Clark (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 62)

Posted on June 4, 2021 by bseat

Claire is running away from her perfect life. Married to man from a rich and famous family with his own political aspirations, Claire knows the importance of looking perfect all the time. But behind the scenes, her husband is controlling, … Continue reading →

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All Systems Red by Martha Wells 9 (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 38)

Posted on December 11, 2020 by bseat

One of my friends, a librarian, recommended these books by Wells which are collectively known as The Murderbot Diaries. Somehow I never got around to reading them. Then when the pandemic began and she recommended them again, I listened and … Continue reading →

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A Dangerous Man by Robert Crais (Books to Read During the Pandemic, Part 33)

Posted on November 6, 2020 by bseat

Joe Pike and Elvis Cole are some of my favorite characters. As private detectives and investigators they are tough, thorough and have an innate sense of justice that kicks in when they see something going wrong. Pike is in the … Continue reading →

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Testimony by Scott Turow (Books To Reading During a Pandemic, Part 29)

Posted on October 9, 2020 by bseat

You cannot think of Scott Turow without thinking of his book Presumed Innocent and the movie starring Harrison Ford. Scott Turow is a master of the the legal procedural, by both making the law relevant and exposing its limitations. His … Continue reading →

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The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 26)

Posted on September 18, 2020 by bseat

Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent and Sarah Linton series is probably one of my favorite things to read. The combination of the complicated romance between Will and Sarah and the fact that Will is an agent for the Georgia Bureau of … Continue reading →

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Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carré (Books To Read During A Pandemic, Part 14)

Posted on June 26, 2020 by bseat

John Le Carré has not lost his touch! This was a fascinating inside look into what it means to be a spy in the time of Brexit and Trump. As always, Le Carré creates characters that are interesting and complex … Continue reading →

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The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre

Posted on December 6, 2019 by bseat

In 1973, Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet intelligence agent became a double agent working for the British intelligence service, MI6.  Gordievsky was an unlikely spy since his parents were both KGB agents and he had lived a fairly affluent life with … Continue reading →

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The Girl In The Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz

Posted on October 25, 2019 by bseat

I loved Steig Larsson’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series with Lisbeth Salander as the incredibly broken but strong and smart heroine. When the dust finally settled after Larsson’s sudden death and a new writer was chosen to continue the … Continue reading →

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The Huntress by Kate Quinn

Posted on July 12, 2019 by bseat

Ian Graham should have been happy, but instead he felt empty. He and his partner, Tony Rodomovsky had just  caught another German war criminal who was now on his way back to Germany to face justice. Ian had been a … Continue reading →

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