Ascension by Oliver Harris

 

Ascension by Oliver Harris

Rating: 5 stars

Summary: Elliott Kane returns from a forced seclusion teaching and recruiting possible spy’s. He is called to look into a suicide of a man on the desolate South Atlantic spy island of Ascension. 

Comments: An incredible researched spy novel in the likes of David Ignatius and Brad Thor. There is a several points in the novel when it becomes difficult to tell fiction from reality based on the research written in. By far the spy novel of the year. Highly recommended. 

https://www.amazon.com/Ascension-Elliot-Thriller-Oliver-Harris-ebook/dp/B08B3LKJ31

In The Cage Where Your Saviors Hide by Malcolm Mackey

 

Rating: 5 stars

Summary: A young PI Darien Ross is introduced in rural Scotland in the rich history city of Chillaid. He is tasked with finding the killer of a local man that police seemingly want kept quite. 

Comments: Mackey might be the finest crime writer around right now. Gives new meaning to Rebus. A must read author. Do yourself a favor and read all his books. Not a single bad novel. This is part one of a two story novel with the same protagonist. 

https://www.amazon.com/Saviors-Two-Novels-Malcolm-Mackay-ebook/dp/B07L2TPM6V

Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby

 

Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby 

Rating: 4 stars

Two damaged fathers trying to reform come together to try and find out who killed there sons in a brazen shooting in downtown Richmond Virginia. The path they follow is violent, fought with race and often times difficult realities must be confronted to right wrongs.

Comments: A extremely fast paced crime novel of two fathers facing there own biases to find the killer of there once disproving family members. I hoped for more past from the two main characters, but the pages will turn with no wasted effort. Also read Blacktop Wasteland a marvelous crime novel. 

https://www.amazon.com/Razorblade-Tears-Novel-S-Cosby-ebook/dp/B08FGVMHNG

City of Dark Corners by Jon Talton

 

City of Dark Corners by Jon Talton

Rating: 5 stars

Summary: Gene Hammons is a down on his luck PI in the new city of Phoenix. He was a former rising star in the Phoenix police department. With ties still strong with the police he is asked about a dismembered women found in a dirty rail yard. Hammons has got demons from the war and is a guy who won’t stop looking for justice in a corrupt city.

Comments: An old school detective police procedural. Hammons is a great character that kept me reading. Not much crime fiction in Phoenix but this is great mid century historical crime novel. Read it.

https://www.amazon.com/City-Dark-Corners-Jon-Talton-ebook/dp/B08NBZKJWZ

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

 

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Rating: 4 stars

Summary: A psychologist who runs a private group therapists is asked by her niece to come to Cambridge to help her with a murdered student she knew. Once she arrives she finds a group of maidens attached to a professor who are suspect of misdeeds. 

Comments: A tightly page turner novel of suspense. If you enjoyed his first novel The Silent Patient he follows a similar formula of pealing the onion. He makes a few nice references to his first novel.

https://smile.amazon.com/The-Maidens/dp/B088DRJXHW