A Time of Torment

Charlie Parker is approached by Jerome Burnel.   Burnel was at one time considered a hero, foiling a botched gas station robbery.  Tragically, all was forgotten when a short time later, Jerome was brought up on child pornography charges.  Jerome claims he’s innocent and although he’s served his time, some may not feel his punishment…

Darkness, Take My Hand

A well known Boston psychiatrist has been receiving threats and promptly hires private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to look into the source.  What starts out as a simple task turns into a violent bloodbath as Kenzie and Gennaro’s world comes undone. Dennis Lehane is fast becoming one of my favorite authors.  Where do…

Terror in the City of Champions

The mid-1930s were banner years for the city of Detroit’s unrivaled sports scene.  In late 1934, the Tigers won the pennant.  Just seven months later, the Red Wings took home the Stanley Cup and the Lions sat atop the National Football League.  And it wasn’t just team sports that dominated.  Hometown hero Joe Louis had…

Precious Cargo

Author Craig Davidson had been having trouble making ends meet when he took a chance on a job posting for a school bus driver for special needs kids.  Originally written as a piece for Avenue magazine, Craig expanded his experience into a full length memoir.  Davidson rounds out the book by adding in struggles he…

A Drink Before The War

Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired by a group of Massachusetts politicians to track down a missing person believed to have documents detrimental to the upcoming passing of a new anti-terrorism bill.  As Kenzie and Gennaro begin to dig deeper into the case, questions arise surrounding their client’s true motives. I thought…

Cibola Burn

After the events of Abaddon’s Gate, a group of refugees from the Ganymede incident have made their way to one of the thousand new uninhabited planets contained on the other side of The Gates.   It isn’t long after they’ve settled that they discover the planet is rich with Lithium.  Planning to mine it and…

Fatherland

What if Hitler had won? Author Robert Harris presents a world where Germany came out on top following the second World War.  Hitler remains as head of Germany’s Western European empire with several of his key associates like Joseph Goebbels and Reinhard Heydrich in positions of power. Following Germany’s discovery of the cracking of the…

Abaddon’s Gate

When we last left things, whatever the Protomolecule had been doing on Venus following Eros Station’s crash landing appears to have come to an end.  The bad news?  Well, it sort of constructed this giant mysterious mechanical ring that drifted off into space and made its way into Uranus’ (heh heh) orbit.  No one knows…