Archive for the 'Suspense' Category

Silencing Sarah: A great mix of Paranormal, Romance, Suspense

By Mary Menzel: Accurately portraying small town life, M.L. Cordle shows the social death and emotional turmoil that is caused by choosing to support a man accused of murder instead of siding with family and friends. Blending, mixing and sporadically revealing details in small doses builds the suspense that keeps the reader anxious to see [...]

Book Review: “No One Heard Her Scream” by Jordan Dane

By Mary Menzel: If you like heavy romance, enticing sexual encounters and intriguing suspense then look no farther than “No One Heard Her Scream”, Jordan Dane’s debut novel. She has achieved a level of symmetry in her writing that allows the reader to experience feelings of intrigue, despair and still feel passion and desire. With [...]

Book Review: “The Devil’s Footprints” by Amanda Stevens

By Mary Menzel: What if your sister was murdered? What if you felt you were to blame? Amanda Stevens has once again brought all the intricacies and prejudges of a small town to life; where people would rather believe in the supernatural than to believe one of their own is capable of murder. The taut [...]

Book Review: “The Doll Maker” by Amanda Stevens

By Mary Menzel: This book has all the ingredients of a suspenseful story – family secrets, marriages, divorces, adultery, cops – good and corrupt and mysterious deaths. So many authors today depend solely on blood, gore and sex to sell their books without knowing how to build the suspense. This novel is pure suspense in [...]

Book Review: “Paying The Piper” by Simon Wood

By Mary Menzel: Can anyone truly imagine the horror of having their child kidnapped? Especially knowing that it is their fault? This novel starts at a break neck pace and constantly accelerates until the finish line. Wood’s multi-faceted characters are engaging and the plot lines twist and turn and loop around again until the reader [...]

Book Review: “Killing Fear” - Allison Brennan

By Mary Menzel: This is the first book in a new trilogy called “The Prison Break Series”. “Killing Fear” is the first book I have read by this author but it definitely won’t be the last. Seven years ago Robin McKenna had three of her friends murdered by Theodore Glenn. It is Robin’s testimony that [...]