BookCase Club October 2016 Subscription Box Review & Coupon – Thrill Seeker Case

Bookcase.Club sends hand selected books to your door for less than $15 including shipping per month. With eight different reader options there is something for everyone. I picked the thrill seeker case: mystery/thriller books. This box contains two books, one hard cover and a paperback and as well as a card with a quick description of each.

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A quote about the amazingness we call autumn by George Elliot. I love how this quote ties the box and season together.

The inside gives a quick description of the books and a note to remind readers to take some time out to relax and enjoy a good book. The handwritten closing makes me smile every time, no matter how short and to the point it is.

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The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne ($12.48)

“By turns a thriller, a mystery and a ghost story….THE ICE TWINS draws from other, similar thrillers on the shelf. Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby, Thomas Tryon’s The Other and Ken Follett’s Eye of the Needle . . . come to mind.” –Washington Post

A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcroft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited from his grandmother, hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives. But when their surviving daughter, Kirstie, claims they have mistaken her identity–that she, in fact, is Lydia–their world crashes in once again. As winter encroaches, Angus is forced to travel away from the island for work, Sarah is feeling isolated, and Kirstie (or is it Lydia?) is growing more disturbed. When a violent storm leaves Sarah and her daughter stranded, they are forced to confront what really happened on that fateful day.

To say the description on the jacket gives me chill is an understatement. A case of mistaken identity within the immediate family, an island setting and somewhere the truth will be found.

The Ghost Shift by John Gapper ($26)

In the tradition of Gorky Park, John Gapper’s new thriller takes readers inside the secretive and dangerous world of modern China, as a young woman makes a haunting discovery—one that forces her to choose between duty to her government and a desperate desire to learn the truth about herself.
 
This wasn’t just a body in a field. The corpse’s shape was hers—same length, same curves. Then she knew, and everything else receded to nothingness. All she could see was a woman with the same nose, the same eyes, and the same face.
 
Her twin.
 
As an up-and-coming agent of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, Song Mei probes political corruption, not mysterious deaths. But that changes when she arrives on the scene of a grim police investigation and is confronted with a crime—and a victim—impossible to ignore. Despite strict orders and threats from superiors, Mei knows she can not turn away.

Breaking protocol, Mei undertakes a covert search for the truth about the mystery woman’s death—and life—by following in her footsteps from a factory plagued by worker suicides to a luxury hotel dealing in high-end escorts to an American home haunted by tragedy. But when Mei crosses paths with an ex–CIA operative on a shadowy mission of his own, her personal quest takes a jarring turn into political and industrial espionage that pits both agents against the highest ranks of communism and capitalism.

A strong female character who is breaking the rules to solve a crime, count me in for this book. According to the jacket the plot is fast paced and completely addictive. I’m just hoping my lack of financial understanding doesn’t make the story hard to follow.

Two hard covered books instead of the normal paperback and hardcover, this makes my day. I’ve never read these authors and I’m thrilled to not only get introduced to new authors but these stories sound amazing. I love that the curators of this box are able to hit my book loving stride each month. I also like that the books are normally in great shape for being a little bit older. Thanks to BookCase.Club I always have something to read.

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