Tower of Babel, by Michael Sears begins by introducing us to Ted Molloy, a former high-flying attorney from Manhattan who has had a humbling fall from grace. Disbarred and adapting to life in his native Queens, Ted squeaks by earning commissions by redeeming...
Fatal Distraction is the second installment in the Jess Kimball series from the prolific and enterprising Diana Capri. Kimball is a crusading, sleuthing investigative reporter on the victims’ rights beat. Having experienced the unresolved tragedy of having her...
Watch the video review The Hearing, by John Lescroart, was published in 2002. It is the seventh book in the Dismas Hardy series of legal thrillers. There are now 19 books in the overall series, which continues until today, Why am I reviewing a 21-year-old book? It was...
Watch the video review here: https://youtu.be/JZZg4PMQUkc Local Gone Missing, by the British journalist and author Fiona Barton, takes on the mystery sub-genre of the small town where everyone has a secret… and everyone could be capable of the murder that...
Watch the video review on #yourbookhound’s YouTube Channel. I realize this might sound crazy, but The Judge’s List is my first John Grisham book. This book features Lacy Stoltz, who has appeared in previous Grisham titles. Lacy is a lawyer who works as an...
Watch the video review The Russian, by James Patterson and James O. Born, is another installment in the Michael Bennett series of thrillers. For the uninitiated (which included me, until I read this book), Michael Bennett is one of New York’s top homicide detectives....
First Cut, by Judy Melinek & T.J. Mitchell, is the first in the series of Dr. Jessie Teska mysteries. There are two, so far, with After Shock coming out in 2021. Melinek and Mitchell are a husband and wife writing team. She’s a forensic pathologist, and he’s a...
In brief: One Fatal Mistake, by Tom Hunt is a taut thriller about a woman struggling to deal with her son’s accidental killing of a man, which he covered up, before lethal complications set in. The story: Karen is a middle-aged nurse and...
Those Who Wish Me Dead is a 2014 thriller by Michael Koryta, a New York Times bestselling author who started out in life as a private investigator and journalist in his home state of Indiana. So, too, does the story of Those Who Wish Me Dead, which begins with...
The Match, by Harlan Coben, is the second in what will probably be an ongoing series of books about the character Wilde. The first was The Boy from the Woods, which introduces readers to Wilde, a man in his mid-thirties who was discovered as a feral child surviving on...
