Friday, January 31, 2020

Book Review: Deep Freeze (Stormwatch #2) by Vicki Hinze

Deep Freeze (Stormwatch #2)
Title:  Deep Freeze (Stormwatch #2)

Author: Vicki Hinze 

Stars: 4

Review:
Deep Freeze is a quick action pack clean mystery romance.  The story plays on the theory of Denver Airport conspiracy theories. The character pop off the page and cones to life in the fast pace story.  Every time readers get a breathe the characters are thrown into another crisis.  Wondering who they can trust. The author packs in back story while keeping the story moving forward.  There are gun, bombs and clean romance packed into one long night of a winter storm of the century.
Thank you to Netgalley for the copy of Vicki Hinze Deep Freeze.


Synopsis:
The storm sweeps in like a thief in the night...

Winter storm Holly is the worst in eighty years bringing high winds, subzero temperatures and snowfall better measured in feet than in inches. The weather paralyzes everything in its path, but, in this storm, weather isn't the only threat.

Emma Miller, a probationary security consultant posing as a reporter, is stranded at Portal International Airport in the worst storm in eighty years. She’s reassigned to protect a top-secret High Containment Lab in the international airport that houses the deadliest bio-contaminate diseases on the planet. A lab under attack by international terrorists who want those pathogens to sell on the black-market.

Dr. Gregory Mason Martin is a bio-containment specialist who runs the top-secret lab, and he knows Emma well. They grew up together, went to school together, and she’s always fascinated him, but she has a long-standing habit of going through men like water, so he’s kept his distance. He doesn’t dare to trust her or her abilities.

Now, all these years later, they must work together to protect the lab and stop the terrorists from obtaining the pathogens. And they must protect the pathogens from Holly, the deadly storm barreling mercilessly toward them. If those pathogens are stolen, the world will be held hostage, and worse, if mishandled, the country could be facing the worst pandemic in history. A pandemic that in short order could wipe out not just cities and states, but the entire nation.

Both are willing to risk their lives. Both are reluctant to risk their hearts. Yet events prove neither of them is who they were thought to be. And a fierce battle against terrorists and the storm proves challenging but no match for the challenges chambered in their human hearts.


About The Author:
Vicki is the USA TODAY bestselling and award-winning author of nearly 40 novels, 4 nonfiction books and hundreds of articles. She's recognized as an author and as an educator by Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. For seven years, she was a columnist for Social-In Global Network; before then, a radio-talk show host for Everyday Woman.

The former VP for International Thriller Writers, consultant to the RWA Board of Directors, and a consultant to multiple other writing organizations. She's a member of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Novelists, Inc., ALLi, and Southern Independent Booksellers Assn.

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Book Review: Hindsight (Kendra Michaels #7) by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen

Hindsight (Kendra Michaels, #7)
Title: Hindsight (Kendra Michaels #7) 

Author:(s) Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen 

Stars: 4

Review:
This can be read as a stand alone novel and readers will know what is going on at all times never getting lost.
The Johansen are able to pull readers into their world and keep readers hooked and in need of more.
The story is a perfect flow and the characters are a balance of strong, weak, smart and at times have readers rooting for them.
Kendra Michael is likable as she is uses her abilities to figure out the killers.  The world readers are pulled into is a mix of physiological thriller and mystery that will keep readers thinking about the story long after they have put it down.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the copy of Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen  Hindsight

Synopsis:
Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses--honed during her years in the dark--and keen deductive abilities.

Now her skills are needed uncomfortably close to home. Two staff members have been murdered at a school for the blind where Kendra spent her formative years. But the murders are puzzlingly dissimilar: one victim was brutally stabbed, while the other was killed by a bullet to the head. Are the crimes related? Or is Kendra on the hunt for more than one dangerous killer?

With the killer (or killers) still on the loose, Kendra must put her life on the line to unravel a terrifying conspiracy. But Kendra soon discovers that she herself may hold the key to the deadliest secret of all..


Hardcover368 pages
Published January 7th 2020 by Grand Central Publishing

About The Author:
Iris Johansen is a New York Times bestselling author. She began her writing after her children left home for college. She first achieved success in the early 1980s writing category romances. In 1991, Johansen began writing suspense historical romance novels, starting with the publication of The Wind Dancer. In 1996 Johansen switched genres, turning to crime fiction, with which she has had great success.

She lives in Georgia and is married. Her son, Roy Johansen, is an Edgar Award-winning screenwriter and novelist. Her daughter, Tamara, serves as her research assistant.

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Book Review: A Longer Fall (Gunnie Rose #2) by Charlaine Harris


A Longer Fall (Gunnie Rose, #2)
Title: A Longer Fall (Gunnie Rose #2)

Author: Charlaine Harris 

Stars: 4

Review:
Since this was the second book in a series I quickly found the first one on Kindle Unlimited and start to read it. After finishing it I decided to start book 2 even though I wasn't nearly as excited as I originally thought I would be.  The moves quickly with it western feel mixed with magic and endless blood shed that some how Lizbeth survives over and over again.
Fans of Charlaine Harris will love this new series as for this readers I still trying to figure out if I love it or hate it.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of Charlaine Harris A Longer Fall

Synopsis:
In this second thrilling installment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to retrieve the crate as what's inside can spark a rebellion, if she can get it back in time.

About The Author:
Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over thirty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Charlaine lives in Texas now, and all of her children and grandchildren are within easy driving distance.

Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. After holding down some low-level jobs, her husband Hal gave her the opportunity to stay home and write. The resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of series, and soon had her own traditional mystery books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. Her first Teagarden, Real Murders, garnered an Agatha nomination.

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Book Review: Bishop's Endgame (Endgame Trilogy #3) by Katie Reus

Bishop's Endgame (Endgame Trilogy #3)
Title: Bishop's Endgame (Endgame Trilogy #3)

Author: Katie Reus

Stars: 4

Review:
I really wanted to love the story because the last two have been leading up to What happened to Ellis.  I am not sure the beginning was a little annoying because the Ellis isn't the bag guy and he really plays a really bad bad guy to the point it is almost laughable that Arianna didn't try to escape.
The story flows well and readers will love the conclusion to the Endgame Trilogy.  Katie Reus is able to being suspense romance and sexy time into her stories will keeping reader wanting more from the characters they have connected to.

Thank you to KP Publishing for the advance copy of Katie Reus Bishop Endgame

Synopsis:
Set up for a crime he didn’t commit, Ellis Bishop takes the law into his own hands to exact justice and clear his name. Unfortunately, that means he has to kidnap a crime boss’s daughter—a perfect mafia princess, set to become queen of a dirty empire. What he didn’t count on was falling for his mortal enemy’s daughter.

He wasn’t supposed to fall for her.

Arianna hates the man who kidnapped her, but soon she realizes that things aren’t what they seem. Ellis was framed by her stepfather and is trying to clear his name. If she helps him, it means betraying her family. But how can she turn her back on him when he’s innocent… when her stepfather turns out to be a monster she never really knew at all?

Kindle Edition203 pages
Expected publication: January 28th 2020 by KR Press, LLC

About The Author:
Katie Reus is the New York Times, USA Today, & IndieReader bestselling author of the Red Stone Security series, the Moon Shifter series and the Deadly Ops series. She fell in love with romance at a young age thanks to books she pilfered from her mom's stash. Years later she loves reading romance almost as much as she loves writing it. However, she didn't always know she wanted to be a writer. After changing majors many times, she finally graduated with a degree in psychology. Not long after that she discovered a new love. Writing. She now spends her days writing dark paranormal romance and sexy romantic suspense. 

Monday, January 27, 2020

Book Review: Hiding in Plain Sight by Eoghan Egan

Hiding in Plain Sight
Title: Hiding in Plain Sight

Author: Eoghan Egan

Stars: 4

Review:
The story starts off with readers followings several different story lines which can get a little confusing for readers but others will love all the story lines wonder who is who and if they have guessed correctly the killer.
The author pulls you into his world that will take hold and not let go until readers will know who what where when and why.  Readers will watch as people wonder what will happen next.

Thank you to Netgalley for a copy of Eoghan Ean Hiding in Plain Site.

Synopsis:
A vicious serial killer roams the Irish Midlands... with his sights set on the next victim. A successful businessman has found the perfect recipe for getting away with murder. No bodies, no evidence.No evidence, no suspect.High art and low morals collide when graduate Sharona Waters discovers a multi-million euro art scam in play. She delves in, unwittingly putting herself on a direct trajectory with danger as the killer accelerates his murder spree. When Sharona gets drawn into the killer’s orbit, she peels away his public persona and exposes the psychopath underneath. Suddenly, the small town has no hiding place

Kindle Edition308 pages
Published November 22nd 2019

About The Author:

https://eoghanegan.com/

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