Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson

Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson

Rating: 5 perfect stars

Summary: A Boston bookseller is approached by a FBI agent and asked to aid her looking for a unknown murderer who she thinks is following a blog post he wrote years before listing the best murder books ever written.

Comments: Never doubt the brilliant storytelling from Peter Swanson. Fantastic! Be ready for a long list of books to read.

https://smile.amazon.com/Eight-Perfect-Murders-Peter-Swanson-ebook/dp/B07TD5CGZQ

The Lonely Witness by William Boyle

The Lonely Witness by William Boyle

Rating: 5 stars

Summary: Amy leads a self contained existence as a church helper when she witnesses a brutal stabbing of a young man she knows from the neighborhood. She lets him die and then becomes obsessed with avoiding the killer who she thinks is stalking her.

Comments: My third Boyle novel and the man is blessed with storytelling only a few can do. A wonderful written crime novel. Highly recommended book and author. Boyle has me leaning back to my Catholic roots, albeit Irish not Italian.

https://smile.amazon.com/Lonely-Witness-Novel-William-Boyle-ebook/dp/B077J6X68Z

 

Broken by Don Winslow

Broken by Don Winslow

Rating: 5 short story stars.

Summary: Several short crime stories with various levels of violence and intrigue by a master storyteller.

Comments: Winslow can write like not many other. Enjoy some great fast moving crime shorts! Excellence.

Fair Warning by Michael Connelly

Fair Warning by Michael Connelly

Rating: 5 DNA strands

Summary: Jack McEvoy is back working for online news site Fair Warning when his name comes up in a murdered women’s homicide investigation. Jack starts his own look into her death and leads us right into a active serial killer.

Comments: Connelly is not capable of telling a solid story. A true master of our time.  A warning to those interested or have sent your DNA in for testing, yikes!

https://www.amazon.com/Fair-Warning-Jack-McEvoy-Book-ebook/dp/B07YSNB24G

Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bauman

Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bauman

Rating: 4 fracking stars

Summary: Rural NE Pennsylvania a small town police officer with a deep history of the the area is tasked with finding a shooter of man found in a wooded property. 

Comments: A great beginning of a series I am hearing great things. Looking forward to the next two in this series. Solid outing. 

https://www.amazon.com/Dry-Bones-Valley-Novel-Farrell-ebook/dp/B00FQUDNG2

Charlie 316 by Colin Conway and Frank Zafiro

Charlie 316 by Colin Conway and Frank Zafiro

Rating: 5 dirty politics stars. 

Summary: A patrol officers is involved in a questionable deadly shooting in which he is ambushed. When investigators start digging through the evidence many questions arise. The politicians become involved and a unholy mess overtakes a great cop novel.

Comments: A brutal cops cop novel with top notch dialogue and suspense. It’s fair to say that the follow up will be even better. I can not wait. Think Kent Anderson’s Night Dogs with politics as a side dish. Highly recommend.

https://www.amazon.com/Charlie-316-Colin-Conway-ebook/dp/B07QM9YZVP

Hard Cash Valley by Brian Panowich

Hard Cash Valley by Brian Panowich

Rating: 4 Redhawk stars

Summary: A GBI detective is called into action to solve the grisly slaying of a loser drug dealer with a crabby FBI investigator. The nonstop action leads back to some double crosses and solutions to past crimes.

Comments: I’m not a big fan of anything Ruger, but a .44 is a .44.

https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Cash-Valley-Brian-Panowich-ebook/dp/B07Z2KZZ3F

The End of October by Lawrence Wright

The End of October by Lawrence Wright

Rating: 5 ending stars. 

Summary: A world renown cdc doctor finds the beginning of a unknown virus. As the world crumbles rapidly with war and a new pandemic Henry search’s for the cure to having the world as we know it end. 

Comments: The book had to have been written well before our current events. But the timing could not have been scarier. A highly recommended book for what could and still is quite possible. Page turner! Everyone will be affected. Wright certainly understands the world around us. 

https://www.amazon.com/End-October-novel-Lawrence-Wright-ebook/dp/B07WKJSP4J

A King of Infinite Space by Tyler Dilts

A King of Infinite Space by Tyler Dilts

Rating: 4.5 stabbing stars

Summary: A brutal murder of a beloved high school teacher in her classroom leaves two police detectives searching for the killer.

Comments: A pretty straightforward police procedural with some solid ingredients. Many plot points lack details and could have been explored deeper. There is enough here to read more from a Dilts.

https://www.amazon.com/King-Infinite-Space-Beach-Homicide-ebook/dp/B00395ZYY0

Zero Zero Zero

Zero Zero Zero on Amazon Prime

Rating: 5 amazing tv stars

Summary: 3 separate interests in a mega large shipment of cocaine from Mexico to Italy is followed in a eight part series on the violence and triple crosses it takes to deliver cocaine to those party people across the world.

Comments: Best thing I’ve watched in sometime. Intricately plotted, hated criminals, and good old double crosses. Amazing must watch.

https://www.amazon.com/ZeroZeroZero/dp/B084GJTDYV