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This is the review of the Thrill Seeker Case: mystery/thriller books.
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The Rising: A Novel by Heather Graham and Jon Land ($11.23)
From acclaimed thriller-suspense novelists Heather Graham and Jon Land comes a story of action, mystery, and the endurance of young love in The Rising.
Twenty-four hours. That’s all it takes for the lives of two young people to be changed forever.
Alex Chin has the world on a plate. A football hero and homecoming king with plenty of scholarship offers, his future looks bright. His tutor, Samantha Dixon, is preparing to graduate high school at the top of her class. She plans to turn her NASA internship into a career.
When a football accident lands Alex in the hospital, his world is turned upside down. His doctor is murdered. Then, his parents. Death seems to follow him wherever he goes, and now it’s after him.
Alex flees. He tells Samantha not to follow, but she became involved the moment she walked through his door and found Mr. and Mrs. Chin as they lay dying in their home. She cannot abandon the young man she loves. The two race desperately to stay ahead of Alex’s attackers long enough to figure out why they are hunting him in the first place. The answer lies with a secret buried deep in his past, a secret his parents died to protect. Alex always knew he was adopted, but he never knew the real reason his birth parents abandoned him. He never knew where he truly came from. Until now.
I am on the edge of my seat and all I’ve done is read the synopsis, there were hardcore open mouth breathing and a desire to drop all I have going on until I finish this novel. Family secrets are one of those things that just drag me into a book and I have to know if our main characters end up together. I know it’s not the adult thing but I like my books to have a soap opera flair so I don’t have to watch tv.
The People’s Police: A Novel by Norman Spinrad ($7.97)
THE PEOPLE’S POLICE is the first new novel by Norman Spinrad to be published in the United States since The Druid King (2003)…. Spinrad has, in a five-decade career, authored only one sequel to a previous title; his two-dozen other novels are all singletons with no direct relation to one another….
The People’s Police…embraces cynicism and decadence with admirable gusto. Set in a near-future New Orleans in the aftermath of disasters both natural and financial, the plot follows three main characters whose stories gradually intertwine: Jean-Baptiste Lafitte, a loquacious proprietor of taverns and whorehouses whose livelihood is abruptly endangered by the advent of the “Superdollar,” a deflationary spiral that has made fixed mortgages impossible to pay; Martin Luther (“Luke”) Martin, a young cop from the “Alligator Swamp” who becomes a popular hero by spearheading a police strike against home foreclosures; and MaryLou Boudreau (a.k.a. Mama Legba), a street performer who enters into a partnership with voodoo gods that she parlays into a popular cable program, Mama Legba and Her Supernatural Krewe, and eventually — by means too bizarre and improbable to recount — into the governorship of Louisiana…. Eventually….the main characters come into contact, whereupon the tale starts zooming along like one of those flat-bottomed airboats that New Orleans cops use to patrol the swamps….
New Orleans is not that big of a deal to me, I know a lot of people who are in love with the lifestyle and history of the area. I’m intrigued to see how the author can tangle all three major groups into one story. I will be reading this but not as quickly as the other book.
When I started reading for fun I started with mysteries and over the years I’ve branched out but I have come to realize that thrillers are easily my favorite. I love meeting new authors and new characters. I love that both of these books have authors I haven’t read before, so instead of two new authors, I have three. I’ve also enjoyed seeing what different writers do to throw me off the beaten path. I never have to search the internet or library for good reads, I love this subscription!
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