Steph Broadribb – Deep Down Dead

Did you ever get the urge to shake a book’s protagonist for acting stupid? Well, in Deep Down Dead I did. Multiple times. I am quite sure that I do not understand how women think, but for Lori Anderson, a female bounty hunter, I actually wondered how she survived that long. Maybe as a mother […]

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Alex Thomas – Die Tränen der Kinder

Mystery und Thriller ist eine Kombination, der ich mich in Romanen äußerst gerne widme. Mit Die Tränen der Kinder ist der erste Roman einer Reihe erschienen, die in der Ankh-Welt von Alex Thomas spielt und sich um die Agentin Paula Tennant dreht. Und bevor ich weiter über den Roman schreibe, gleich vorneweg: Ich kenne und […]

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Layton Green – The Summoner

So, more than a year has passed to finally get around to book number 1 of the Dominic Grey series: The Summoner. I wrote about how I started with book #3 in autumn 2016, but of course, I had to go back for the first one. Well, I can say that it did not disappoint. […]

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Mason Cross – The Killing Season

I came across (no pun intended) this book because of a tweet by Steven Dunne, whose Reaper series I already wrote about. The Killing Season is the first book in the series of Carter Blake, some kind of ex-mercinary on his mission to help finding people. Well, I don’t spurn a recommendation by a great […]

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Steven Dunne – The Disciple

So I finally came around to read the successor of The Reaper: The Disciple. Yes, it is DI Damen Brook again who cannot let go off the reaper. And while he is quite sure the reaper is dead, incidents happening in Derby and at his doughter’s place not only bind him as suspect to a […]

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Marcus Sakey – Brilliance

Now, here we have an action packed thriller with a twist. Brilliance is the first in a series of books by Marcus Sakey that is very much in the mutated humans, i. e., individuals with special “enhanced” abilities here called Brilliants. In contrast to many other mutant fiction (be it inhumans, meta-humans, or the like), […]

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Layton Green – The Diabolist

Whoever recommended this book to me: be cursed. First, it made me start with the recent book (well, it was the third one while there actually is a fourth book of the series by now) and not the first of the Dominic Grey Series, and second, I now am hooked. Layton Green’s The Diabolist is […]

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Steven Dunne – The Reaper

With The Reaper I had the first book of Steven Dunne’s DI Brook series on my reading list. Damen Brook is quite a broken character as Detective Inspector. It was published in 2007, and although the idea of the character with personal issues is not new in the world of novel-investigators, the story itself is […]

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Marcus Johanus – Tödliche Gedanken

Ein halbes Jahr ist es bereits her, dass ich den Roman von Axel Hollmann, einer Hälfte der SchreibDilettanten, hier kritisierte. Nun endlich bin ich zu seinem Videocast-Kollegen gekommen: Marcus Johanus. Mit Tödliche Gedanken hat er einen Mystery-Thriller geschaffen, der sich um eine rebellische, aber im Grunde sehr intelligente Jugendliche mit außergewöhnlichen Eigenschaften dreht. Mit hinein […]

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Thomas Thiemeyer – Medusa

Empfohlen wurde mir eigentlich Nebra, aber da ich gerne mit dem ersten Buch einer Reihe beginne, startete ich mit Medusa von Thomas Thiemeyer. Ich bin ja grundlegend ein Fan mystisch angehauchter Thriller, insbesondere, wenn Autoren mit Legenden und Sagen spielerisch umgehen und einen unerwarteten Blickwinkel darauf bieten. Dies ist das erste Buch mit der Archäologin […]

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