Sacred

There’s something ugly about the flawless.. Following the events of Darkness, Take My Hand, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro have shuttered their agency and have begun to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.  A year has passed when they’re approached (and by approached, I mean drugged and tossed in the back of a…

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…

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…

Caliban’s War

The second installment of James S.A. Corey’s Expanse series brings with it some new faces as well as familiar ones.  We meet UN dignitary Chrisjen Avasarala, a driven politician with about as much social tact as a sledgehammer; Sergeant Bobbie Draper, a Martian Marine who witnesses her entire team annihilated by a monsterous protomolecule giant;…