There’s no better way to start the new year than by watching a good thriller (I rang in the New Year by watching a scary movie, I have an addiction). Escape Room, a new psychological thriller, brings together six strangers who must solve clues and puzzles or meet a much more sinister end than expected. Escape rooms have become […]

  When it comes to my experience reading Consuming Fire: An Alexa Silven Novel by C.B. Hoffmann, I should probably start at the very beginning. The first sentence of this enticing novel reads, “She was accustomed to coming here; she was an assassin embroiled in a sultry web of blackmail and deceit.” Well, that did it for me. For one […]

Al Campo is trying to avoid falling back into bed with government work when he stumbles across a mystery of his own. After a stint in the Middle East as an FBI consultant, Campo is on his way to a safe house in Pennsylvania when he narrowly misses running over a small girl, and succeeds in hitting a ginger haired […]

Andrea Harding has just graduated from Princeton and is preparing to spend her summer traveling through Europe before starting law school at Duke in the fall. She’s just your average twenty-something when a knock at her door in the middle of the night turns her world upside down. Her father, Nicholas, and Uncle Michael have been shot, and New Jersey […]

If you are planning on hiring a nanny to help you prepare for your soon-to-be born baby, this book might make you think twice! Samantha Hayes‘ novel, Until You’re Mine, is a psychological thriller about an expecting mother who lets a secretive new nanny into her family at a time when – by coincidence? – pregnant women are being attacked […]

I remember a few summers ago when Gone Girl came out and I was instantly hooked…as was the rest of the world. Mary Kubica‘s debut novel, The Good Girl  will instantly grip you the same way. Sure to be a national success, this is one of the best new books I’ve read in a long time. However, unlike in Gone […]