by vjbooks | Aug 22, 2014 | Collecting, We're Talking Books!
The Dagger of the Assassin The assassin seems to have been edging his way into the suspense genre for some time now, wrapped in a dark mystique and lurking in the pages of political thrillers, epic and urban fantasy, and even young adult titles. Using what some may...
by vjbooks | Jan 18, 2010 | We're Talking Books!
Watchlist is a two-part thriller by Jeffery Deaver, who created the characters and set the plot in motion. In turn, twenty-one of the world’s greatest thriller writers contributed to the work, some of which include Linda Barnes, Brett Battles, Lee Child, David...
by vjbooks | May 30, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
In Edgar-winner Liss’s enjoyable third thriller to feature the estimable Benjamin Weaver, an 18th-century London “thieftaker” (after A Spectacle of Corruption and A Conspiracy of Paper), Weaver finds himself working reluctantly for a mysterious gentleman, Jerome Cobb....
by vjbooks | Dec 25, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(boston.com, Dec. 19, 2008, David Liss) As he does with his many preceding novels, Ivan Doig roots “The Eleventh Man” in rural Montana of the past, but this book, set during the years of American involvement in World War II, is much more wide-ranging than...