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Adam Lebor | District VIII | 14.07.2018 | 2017 | A detective on Budapest's murder squad is on the trail of a dead man. Too much history, not engaging enough. |
Agatha Raisin | Quiche of death | 20.03.2016 | 1992 | Self proclaimed amateur detective from London want's to settle down in a village. I prefer professionals, so I will not continue with this author. |
Alan Parks | Bloody January | 30.05.2019 | 2017 | Harry McCoy needs the help of his criminal underworld connections to find out the truth. Too violent and dark, too much beatings. |
Alex Berenson | The Faithul Spy | 12.11.2009 | 2006 | First part boring |
Alex North | The Whisper Man | 26.03.2020 | 2019 | When Thom and his son Jake move to Featherbank, they are looking for a fresh start. But 15 years earlier a serial killer haunted those streets. Then Jake says he hears a whispering at his window. Long introduction until tension starts. |
Alison Baillie | Sewing The Shadows Together | 25.12.2019 | 2015 | More than 30 years after the violent death of Shona, her brother uncovers dark secrets and is caught up in a web of death, love and deception. A plot told too many times. |
Alistair MacLean | H.M.S Ulysses | 1955 | ||
Alistair MacLean | The Golden Gate | 1976 | ||
Alistair MacLean | Athabasca | 1980 | ||
Alistair MacLean | Ice Station Zebra | 1963 | ||
Alistair MacLean | Caravan To Vaccarès | 1970 | ||
Alistair MacLean | The Golden Rendezvous | 1962 | ||
Alistair MacLean | Force 10 From Navarone | 1957 | ||
Andrew Grant | Die Twice | 26.11.2011 | 2011 | Quite thrilling |
Andy Mc Dermont | Empire Of Gold | 27.08.2011 | 2011 | Boring, not finished |
Andy Mc Dermont | The Midas Legacy | 06.08.2017 | Very thrilling, but close to ridiculous actions. Nina Wild and Eddie Chase search the hidden secret of King Midas. | |
Andy McNab | Cold Blood | 15.01.2018 | 2016 | On a trek to the North Pole, Nick Stone and 5 ex-servicemen aren't chased by for legs but two. Not my preference. |
Andy McNab | Whatever It Takes | 10.04.2022 | 2019 | James Mercer, ruined by the institution, will stop at nothing to recoup what they are owed. With one last heist he tries to restore his family's honour. Little suspense halfway through the book. |
Barry Elsener | Killing Rain | 08.07.2006 | 2005 | Very thrilling |
Blake Crouch | Dark Matter | 02.02.2018 | 2016 | Jason Dessen, a college physics professor finds himself surrounded by similar Jason's after an abduction. Mysterious thriller with a brilliant concept. |
Brad Meltzer | The Book Of Fate | 30.06.2007 | 2006 | Very thrilling |
Brad Meltzer | The Escape Artist | 10.04.2019 | 2018 | Zig, a mortician, uncovers the truth of a plane crash where supposedly among others Nola Brown died. An amazing plot. |
Catherine Coulter | Deadlock | 04.02.2024 | 2022 | When Rebekah Manvers is contacted by Zoltan, she believes the women is a charlatan. The next day Special Agen Dillon Savich rescues Rebekah from two men. Savich and Sherlock must discover the truth not only to save themselves but to prevent further bloodshed. Intricate from start to finish. |
Carlos Rutz Zafon | The SHADOW of the WIND | 05.05.2004 | 2001 | Boring |
Claire Douglas | Last Seen Alive | 30.08.2020 | 2017 | With a house swap hope Libby Hall and Jamie to heal their fragile marriage. But the past gets in the way. Twisty and brilliant. |
Clive Cussler | Cyclops | 1986 | ||
Clive Cussler | Flood Tide | 1997 | ||
Clive Cussler | Inca Gold | 1994 | ||
Clive Cussler | Sahara | 1992 | ||
Clive Cussler | The Mediterranean Caper | 1973 | ||
Clive Cussler | Atlantis found | 21.04.2001 | 1999 | |
Clive Cussler | Serpent | 21.04.2001 | 1999 | |
Clive Cussler | Blue Gold | 21.04.2001 | 2000 | |
Clive Cussler | Valhalla Rising | 22.07.2001 | 2001 | |
Clive Cussler | Fire Ice | 20.08.2002 | 2002 | |
Clive Cussler | Trojan Odyssey | 24.12.2003 | 2003 | |
Clive Cussler | The Tresure Of Khan | 01.12.2007 | 2006 | |
Clive Cussler | The Jungle | 01.12.2012 | 2011 | Very thrilling, with Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon. |
Clive Cussler | Poseidon's Arrow | 25.03.2014 | 2013 | Very thrilling. Scientist repsonsible for design of revolutionary submarine is missing, which leads Pitt to Panama. |
Clive Cussler | The Striker | 04.05.2014 | 2014 | Very thrilling. 1902, Isacc Bell investigates sabotage in coal mines. |
Clive Cussler | Zero Hour | 12.12.2014 | 2013 | Amazing are the capabilities, that Kurt Austin from the NUMA team on this science fiction based thriller, required to survive. |
Clive Cussler | The Mayan Secret | 08.03.2015 | 2013 | The treasure hunting team Sam and Remi have astonishing many means at hand to save the powerful Mayan Codex – hard to beat. |
Clive Cussler | The Eye Of Heaven | 07.03.2016 | 2014 | The treasure hunting team Sam and Remi have once more beaten Janus Benedict, a treasure dealer. |
Clive Cussler | Piranha | 01.05.2016 | 2016 | Juan Cabrillo and his scientific equipped Oregon beats most brilliant but dangerous do-gooder. |
Clive Cussler | Ghost Ship | 10.06.2016 | 2015 | The steamship Waratah hits a storm and vanished without trace - never to be found. Kurt Austin digs into this mystery. |
Clive Cussler | Mirage | 20.06.2016 | 2014 | In world war II a secret US military experiment caused a warship to vanish at sea. Juan Cabrillos mission goes badly awry. |
Clive Cussler | The Pharaoh's Secret | 20.09.2016 | 2015 | Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are desperate fighting for friends exposed to Black Mist, a deathlike sleep. |
Clive Cussler | The Solomon Curse | 20.10.2016 | 2015 | Legend - even recent history - tells of a terrible fate, visitors do not return alive. Remi and Sam come close to be the next victim. |
Clive Cussler | Pirate | 20.10.2017 | 2016 | Sam and Remi stumbled on the theft of a rare book on a treasure hunt, followed by a man which is determined to solve it first at any cost. |
Clive Cussler | Odessa Sea | 25.08.2018 | 2017 | Kurt from NUMA must find the most advanced aircraft with a deadly payload, but Russia and China is also involved. Good pace. |
Clive Cussler | Nighthawk | 17.02.2018 | 2017 | Pitt and Giordino are on a mission to locate a shipwreck on which nuclear smugglers are also interested in. |
Clive Cussler | Sahara | 06.12.2018 | 1993 | Deep in the African desert leaks a lethal chemical into a river. To warn the world, Pitt must escape a dictator and industrialist. |
Clive Cussler | The Romanov Ransom | 20.01.2019 | 2017 | Sam and Remi in search for the legendary Russian treasure stolen by the Nazis. |
Clive Cussler | Typhoon Fury | 20.05.2019 | 2017 | Juan Cabrillo has a hard enemy with Salvador Locsin, powered with an extraordinary serum. But with amazing modern means and capabilities of his team his mission succeeds. |
Clive Cussler | The Rising Sea | 20.07.2019 | 2018 | Everywhere water is rising - and that's just the beginning of the world's peril unless the NUMA crew can beat the clock. Entertaining and diverting. |
Clive Cussler | Shadow Tyrants | 24.10.2019 | 2018 | The Colossus Project sees 2000 years of esoteric knowledge distilled into a device so powerful no force on earth can stop it. |
Clive Cussler | Sea Of Greed | 07.01.2020 | 2018 | Oilfields around the world are dying because of sabotage, to end the Oil Age. Who's behind it? Fast pacing plot. |
Clive Cussler | Final Option | 07.10.2020 | 2019 | There is another ship like the Oregon, which begins sinking innocent vessels. Someone is out to frame Cabrillo. I never thought the Oregon will be sacrificed. |
Clive Cussler | The Oracle | 25.11.2020 | 2019 | Sam and Remi uncover clues pointing to a lost ancient scroll. A ruthless band of robbers also hunt for this scroll. The title covers not much of the story. |
Clive Cussler | Celtic Empire | 25.21.2020 | 2019 | After an oil spill, the green tech firm BioRem cleans it up. After a trail of unexplained deaths linked to BioRem, Pitt unravels a mystery from the past. |
Clive Cussler | Fast Ice | 06.04.2022 | 2021 | Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala find a sinking ship with a murdered crew. To learn the truth they head to Antarctica. Too much is foreseeable. |
Clive Cussler | The Devil's Sea | 02.12.2022 | 2021 | After Pitt discovers a sunken relic in an ancient cargo plane, he has to beat the Chinese military to find a lost hypersonic missile. The relic and the missile leads him into dangerous water and a desperate race against time. |
Clive Cussler | The Saboteurs | 24.12.2022 | 2021 | Isaac Bell thwarts a plot to kill a US Senator, which could have brought a halt to the construction of the Panama Canal. The race is on to uncover who was behind it and what they hoped to gain. Like a 007-thriller. |
Colin Forbes | The Sisterhood | 22.10.2001 | 1997 | |
Colin Forbes | Sinister Tide | 26.02.2022 | 1999 | Tweed has to track the creator of the supreme weapon Dr Goslar is going to sell to the highest bidder. Very intriguing and fast paced character. |
christopher REICH | The Devil's Banker | 15.01.2004 | 2003 | Thrilling. He was born in Tokyo on November 12, 1961. He moved to the United States in 1965. He attended Georgetown University and the University of Texas and worked in Switzerland before returning to the United States to become an author. He lives in San Diego and is the author of eight novels. |
christopher REICH | The first Billion | 12.12.2003 | 2002 | Thrilling |
christopher REICH | the Patriots' CLUB | 17.02.2007 | 2004 | |
christopher REICH | Rules of Vengeance | 24.09.2010 | 2009 | Very thrilling |
christopher REICH | numbered Account | 23.08.2008 | 1998 | Very thrilling |
christopher REICH | Rules of Betrayal | 30.04.2011 | 2010 | Very thrilling |
Chris Pavone | The Paris Diversion | 24.11.2019 | 2018 | Kate, a former CIA operative is confronted with a disturbing scheme of revenge. I expected more. |
Chris Ryan | Warlord | 06.05.2018 | 2017 | Danny Black leads a SAS squad to assassinate the leader of a drug gang. It's based on real events. Thrilling but vicious. |
Chris Ryan | End Game | 28.04.2022 | 2016 | After Zak's handler are abducted by somebody with a serious personal vendetta against him, he heads across the world to find them. About young agents with serious skills. |
Craig Thomas | Firefox Down | 17.02.2022 | 1983 | Firefox was the supersonic thriller produced and staring by Clint Eastwood, a reckless Western scheme to hijack Soviet Russia's most lethally sophisticated warplane. A stunning sequel. |
Dan Brown | Deception Point | 10.04.2004 | 2001 | Thrilling |
Dan Brown | The Da Vinci Code | 10.10.2003 | 2003 | Very thrilling |
Dan Brown | Inferno | 20.09.2014 | 2013 | Very thrilling, packed with tricks. Symbologist Robert Langdon must decipher a sequence of codes to save the world. |
Dan Brown | The Bourne Enigma | 22.01.2017 | 2016 | Spymaster General Boris Karpov has an important message to deliver to Bourne. Because he was killed, Bourne has only 4 days to decipher the message. |
Dan Brown | Angels And Demons | 20.12.2021 | 2001 | When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered, Robert Langdon is summoned to identify the symbol on the chest. The symbol leads to Rome and to a long-forgotten Illuminati lair. A heck of a good read. |
D. B. John | Star Of The North | 04.05.2019 | 2018 | A young American woman disappears without trace from a South Korean island. The CIA recruits her twin sister to uncover the truth. Amazing, but the Korean part is quite disturbing. |
Daniel Silva | The Mark of the Assassin | 04.10.1999 | 1998 | |
Daniel Silva | The English Assassin | 01.02.2019 | 2003 | Ex-Israeli spy arrives in Zurich to restore a painting for a millionaire banker - only to find the client dead and himself framed for the murder. A spine tingling plot. |
Daniel Silva | House Of Spies | 15.06.2019 | 2017 | Gabriel Allon and Jean-Luc-Martel, a druglord, are an unlikely pair of heroes who fight terrorism. Like Jason Bourne and James Bond. |
Daniel Silva | The Other Women | 21.12.2019 | 2018 | A mysterious Frenchwomen keeps the most closely guarded secret of the Kremlin, which inserted a mole into the West. Only Gabriel Allon can unravel the conspiracy. One of the best spy novel. |
Daniel Silva | The New Girl | 24.05.2020 | 2019 | The daughter of Khalid, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, is taken hostage. When Khalid is confronted with abdication from the throne, he turns to Gabriel Allon for help. Very good read. |
Daniel Silva | The Cellist | 01.01.2023 | 2022 | MI6 concludes, the reporter who detected the killed Viktor Orlov, is a Moscow Centre assassin. But Gabriel Arlon believes they are dangerously mistaken. With the help of a brilliant young women employed by the world's dirtiest bank, they can stop the plot. A taut and intelligent thriller. |
Daniel Silva | Moscow Rules | 17.04.2023 | 2009 | Ivan Kharkov is about to deliver Russia’s most sophisticated weapons to USA’ most dangerous enemy, unless Gabriel Allon can stop him. |
David Baldacci | Last Man Standing | 14.04.2002 | 2001 | all books adviceable |
David Baldacci | Total Control | 07.08.2003 | 1996 | Very thrilling |
David Baldacci | The Winner | 08.08.2004 | 1997 | Very thrilling |
David Baldacci | hour game | 10.10.2004 | 2004 | Thrilling |
David Baldacci | saving faith | 20.02.2005 | 1999 | Very thrilling |
David Baldacci | the simple truth | 20.02.2005 | 1998 | Very thrilling |
David Baldacci | wish you well | 20.02.2005 | 2000 | No thriller, exiting |
David Baldacci | split second | 20.02.2005 | 2003 | Very thrilling |
David Baldacci | the camel club | 06.06.2006 | 2005 | Medium, long drawn |
David Baldacci | the collectors | 06.10.2007 | 2006 | Very thrilling |
David Baldacci | simple genius | 22.12.2007 | 2007 | Very thrilling |
David Baldacci | The Whole Truth | 31.07.2010 | 1998 | Very thrilling |
David Baldacci | Deliver Us From Evil | 20.10.2010 | 2010 | Very thrilling, vicious |
David Baldacci | Hell's Corner | 30.07.2011 | 2010 | Very thrilling, read twice by chance because of similar cover. |
David Baldacci | Zero Day | 04.08.2012 | 2011 | Very thrilling, with military investigator John Pulle.r |
David Baldacci | The Innocent | 21.03.2013 | 2012 | Peerless, assassin Will Robie sees his latest assignment… |
David Baldacci | The Hit | 23.12.2013 | 2013 | Once more expertedly plotted, again one of the best book I read. |
David Baldacci | King and Maxwell | 20.04.2014 | 2013 | After Tyler Wingo's Father has been killed in Afghanistan, he receives a message. Another thrilling 600 page-turner. |
David Baldacci | The Target | 12.12.2014 | 2014 | Robie and Reel are chosen for such an assignment, that if they fail, the President risks impeachment and the threats will multiply. Another terrific story taking place in Korea and USA. |
David Baldacci | The Escape | 25.05.2015 | 2014 | Brother of investigator John Puller does time in the most secure prison, then escapes. |
David Baldacci | Memory Man | 07.12.2015 | 2015 | This page turner consumed all spare time, most thrilling. |
David Baldacci | The Guilty | 02.04.2016 | 2016 | Will Robie has unfinished business in his hometown, where his father is arrested for murder and which his toughest assignment waits, his family. |
David Baldacci | The Fix | 02.10.2017 | 2017 | Amos Decker, with his extraordinary power of observation, solves an attack which involves national security. Another page turner. |
David Baldacci | Long Road To Mercy | 15.07.2019 | 2019 | FBI Special Agent Atlee Pine is tasked to investigate a missing person in the Grand Canyon. The final reveal is both exiting and shocking. |
David Baldacci | Redemption | 13.12.2019 | 2019 | Amos Decker put Hawkins into prison 15 years ago. Now he finds him to be innocent, the real killer is still out there. While solving, the case gets bigger and bigger. |
David Baldacci | One Good Deed | 11.03.2020 | 2019 | Aloysius Archer, fresh from prison and on parole, soon becomes a suspect of three murders. Everybody involved has deeply buried secrets which Archer has to solve. Astonishing. |
David Baldacci | Walk The Wire | 20.11.2020 | 2020 | Amos Decker and Alex Jamison are summoned tot o seek answers of Irene's death. A local fracking industry and an Air Force Station makes it more explosive. What a complicated plot. |
David Baldacci | A Gambling Man | 16.11.2021 | 2021 | California 1949, Aloysius Archer starts a new job as a private investigator. Arriving in a town rife with corruption, Archer is tasked with finding out who murders people at a burlesque club. Very good move into historical crime with new character ex-jailbird Archer. |
David Baldacci | Dream Town | 02.02.2023 | 2022 | Aloysius Archer is approached by Eleanor Lamb to hire him because she suspects someone is trying to kill her. A visit to her flat leaves Archer knocked unconscious after he stumbles over a dead body - while Lamb seems to have vanished. |
David Baldacci | Long Shadows | 24.10.2023 | 2023 | Amos Decker is called to investigate a double homicide in Florida, a federal judge and her bodyguard. What first seems cut and dried is anything but. They must be content with a series of unsettling changes. A complex plot. |
David Hewson | The Sacred Cut | 02.05.2005 | 2005 | Boring |
Dean Koontz | Cold Fire | 15.09.2021 | 1991 | Jim Ironhart risks his life to save a child. Reporter Holly Thorne discovers Jim has performed 12 last-minute rescues. Holly realises she is on to the biggest Story of her life. Scary and spooky and good suspense. |
Dean Koontz | Velocity | 28.01.2022 | 2005 | On the windscreen of his SUV, Billy finds the first note. He thinks it's a hoax. The schoolteacher dies. Scary, spooky and good suspense again. |
Don Winslow | The Border | 15.05.2020 | 2019 | Art Keller fights with all means to bring the war on drugs down, from the slums of Guatemala to Washington DC. Brutal and brilliant, reads like a documentary. |
Donna Leon | A Sea Of Troubles | 10.03.2023 | 2002 | The murder of two calm fishermen draws Commissario Brunetti into the island's close-knit community off Pelestrina. When his boss's secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to get local information, she comes closer to the murderer as she's aware off. Boring. |
E.O. Chirovici | The Book Of Mirrors | 25.11.2017 | 2017 | After 30 years of Professor Wieder's murder, a manuscript makes 3 people a suspect. Although highly recommended, I’m not convinced. |
Elizabeth George | A Traitor To memory | 07.07.2002 | 2001 | |
Eric Van Lustbader | The Bourne Sanction | 07.02.2009 | 2008 | |
Eric Van Lustbader | Any Minute Now | 10.05.2017 | 2016 | Red Rover, the blackest of black ops teams is for my taste a little too much on the dark side. |
Eric Van Lustbader | The Fallen | 26.07.2018 | 2017 | Braverman Shaw unearths the chronicle of Good and Evil. Too esoteric, but rich in detail. |
Frederick Forsyth | The Fist Of Good | 1994 | ||
Frederick Forsyth | The Fourth Protocol | 1984 | ||
Frederick Forsyth | The Veteran | 01.01.2002 | 2001 | |
Frederick Forsyth | Icon | 22.12.2006 | 1996 | Moscow, well researched, rather thrilling. |
Frederick Forsyth | The Kill List | 15.10.2014 | 2013 | Very thrilling. The Tracker has got to discover the Preachers identity, locate him and take him out. |
Frederick Forsyth | The Fox | 02.10.2019 | 2018 | How valuable is an 18-year boy with skills to hack any firewall? What will the superpowers do to get hold of him? Ingenious, as I remember him. |
Frederick Forsyth | The Cobra | 10.07.2020 | 2010 | Paul Devereux, an ex-CIA special ops, is given what seems like an impossible task: stop the drug barons. A breath-taking look into the cocaine industry. |
Frederick Forsyth | The Fist Of God | 28.08.2021 | 1994 | Mayor Mike Martin, an SAS man who can pass as an Arab, is sent to Kuwait to assess Iraqi strength and find the Fist of God. Very compelling. |
Gavin Collinson | An Accident In Paris | 15.01.2023 | 2022 | A princess dies in Paris. Now Marc Novak must find out what really happened, but the last thing he expects to discover is a brutal, covert world. Soon he's drawn head-to-head with people so powerful, they'll kill to protect their secrets. Very cleverly plotted. |
George Orwell | Animal Farm | 07.06.1985 | 1945 | Very depressive |
Glenn Meade | Web of Deceit | 01.07.2004 | 2004 | Thrilling but vicious |
Graham Green | Doctor Fischer Of Geneva Or The Bomb Party. | 07.06.1985 | 1980 | |
Guillermo Martinez | The Oxford Murders | 16.04.2017 | 2005 | Interesting crime frame but too much rambling about mathematics instead crime solving. |
Harlan Coben | Don't Let Go | 06.08.2018 | 2017 | Nap Dumas discovers that secrets from 15 years ago still can kill. Let's see if it gets better. |
Harlan Coben | Run Away | 15.11.2019 | 2019 | After Page runs from a very troubled situation as well as family matters, her father follows her into a dark and dangerous world. Quite stunning. |
Harlan Coben | Win | 05.06.2022 | 2021 | A stolen Vermeer masterpiece was found next to a hermit found murdered in his apartment. Win is called to the crime scene because of his wealth, personal connections, and his own brand of justice. Just good enough. |
Harlan Coben | The Match | 28.07.2023 | 2022 | Wild has grown up knowing nothing if his parents, and even less about his own identity. A DNA match might solve his mystery. Only a relation disappears as quickly as he's surfaced. Then one by one, people start to die. Highly addictive. |
Helen Fielding | Olivia Joules and the overactive picador | 06.06.2005 | 2003 | Exciting |
Henning Mankell | The Troubled Man | 20.10.2022 | 2009 | Detective Wallander has a personal interest in the case of a retired naval officer who has disappeared without a trace. Pretty suspenseful, although the case stalls many times. |
Hjorth & Rosenfeldt | The Man Who Wasn't There | 01.05.2017 | 2016 | Complicated, twisted but too many people hardly connected to the complot. Gripping near closing. |
Hugh Laurie | The Gun Seller | 25.07.2022 | 2004 | Thomas Lang, a hired gun, is contracted to assassinate an American industrialist. But he opts to warn the victim and tries to prevent a bloodbath. Clever and hilarious. |
Ian Caldwell | The Rule Of Four | 01.08.2004 | 2004 | Boring |
Ian Rankin | The Naming of the dead | 25.03.2007 | 2006 | Boring |
Ian Rankin | The Impossibel Dead | 20.07.2012 | 2011 | Boring until to last pages. This should be the last-ditch attempt. |
Ian Rankin | Westwind | 05.02.2021 | 2020 | After a satellite goes missing, Martin Hepton refuses to stop asking questions. Much better than I thought. |
Ian Rankin | The Falls | 05.06.2021 | 2001 | Quite good. |
Ian Rankin | Mortal Causes | 28.11.2021 | 2005 | A tortured body is found in Edinburgh with marks of sectarian activists. John Rebus is asked to work with the Crime Squad. Too many history lessons. |
Ian Rankin | A Song For The Dark Times | 12.09.2022 | 2020 | When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, because her husband has been missing for two days, John Rebus knows she will be the prime suspect. |
Ian Rankin | A Heart Full Of Headstones | 15.01.2023 | 2022 | John Rebus stands accused and Siobhan Clarke tackles Edinburgh's most explosive days in years, as a corrupt cop harboring huge secrets goes missing. |
Jack Higgins | Eye Of The Storm | 1992 | ||
Jack Higgins | Thunder Point | 1993 | ||
Jack Henderson | Maximum Impact | 26.07.2008 | 2007 | Very exiting |
James Patterson | London Brides | 30.05.2006 | 2008 | Medium, long drawn |
James Patterson | Worst Case | 20.11.2010 | 2010 | Very exiting |
James Patterson | Swimsuit | 15.01.2011 | 2009 | Very exiting but too harsh. |
James Patterson | 9th Judgement | 16.07.2011 | 2010 | Very thrilling |
James Patterson | Kill Alex Cross | 09.06.2012 | 2010 | Very thrilling. The President's son and daughter are abducted, detective Alex Cross in charge. |
James Patterson | Private Games | 01.10.2012 | 2012 | Very thrilling. The London Olympic Games are under attack. |
James Patterson | Private London | 02.11.2013 | 2012 | Very thrilling |
James Patterson | Kill Me If You Can | 28.02.2013 | 2011 | Lead character turns out to be the culprit, but ... |
James Patterson | I, Michael Bennet | 01.03.2013 | 2012 | Very thrilling, chase of Mexican crime lord. |
James Patterson | Cross Country | 21.05.2013 | 2009 | High octane stuff, unrelentingly exciting, a hunt through Africa. |
James Patterson | No.1 Suspect | 01.07.2013 | 2013 | I made breaks between pages. I bought more books at Brig. |
James Patterson | 11th Hour | 02.08.2013 | 2013 | See if next book will be thrilling again. |
James Patterson | Now You See Her | 26.08.2013 | 2011 | Very thrilling. Bloom vanished. Now, to rescue an innocent man, she confronts the killer she thought she had escaped forever. |
James Patterson | NYPD RED | 22.09.2013 | 2012 | While Holywood's biggest stars are targeted, my knocking-off time is seriously shortened. |
James Patterson | Guilty Wives | 20.10.2013 | 2012 | I thought I have read the best book of the author, until I stumbled over this. |
James Patterson | Sweet Hearts | 15.05.2013 | 2013 | Because of denied marriage, she is haunted by killers' revenge. |
James Patterson | Second Honeymoon | 25.12.2013 | 1990 | Too psychic, not my style, I jumped several pages. |
James Patterson | Cross My Heart | 20.08.2014 | 2013 | Alex Cross's world is crashing down as everything he loves is being taken from him. The story continues in Hope To Die. |
James Patterson | Private Down Under | 01.01.2015 | 2012 | Craig Gisto helps to solve kidnapping and murder at Sydney. Too many cases packed in one book. |
James Patterson | Private India | 28.03.2015 | 2014 | In spite of "The mixture of Indian culture and the drinking problem of Santosh makes the investigation bizarre" it's a fast read |
James Patterson | Burn | 20.04.2015 | 2014 | Thrilling enough but not my kind of supension. |
James Patterson | Invisible | 20.06.2015 | 2015 | When her sister was killed by a fire she doesn't believe it was an accident. So Emmy investigates and links a serial killer to the fire to cover murder. Very thrilling. |
James Patterson | Unlucky 13 | 20.07.2015 | 2014 | Lindsay Boxer chases her ex-colleague Mackie Morales who is wanted for three murders. |
James Patterson | 14Th Deadly Sin | 20.08.2015 | 2015 | Lindsay Boxer receives a chilling warning from a murder, who turnes out to wear the same uniform. |
James Patterson | The Murder House | 14.08.2016 | 2016 | Detective Jenna Murphy is hoping to escape her troubled past but comes involved in a case which reveals more secrets than she could possibly imagine. |
James Patterson | Alert | 05.09.2015 | 2016 | Detective Michael Bennet races against the clock to save NY of a most destructive force. |
James Patterson | 15th Affair | 20.11.2016 | 2016 | Four bodies are found in a luxury hotel. Soon after Detective Lindsay is sent to investigate, her husband goes missing. |
James Patterson | Women Of God | 10.03.2017 | 2016 | A complete different thriller, a lot about religion. Not only quite unexpected but still a page turner. |
James Patterson | The Store | 17.02.2018 | 2016 | How unsettling the future can get is superbly written by this magnificent thriller. |
James Patterson | The Black Book | 08.04.2018 | 2017 | Brilliantly conspired, I was never close to name the perpetrator. |
James Patterson, Bill Clinton | The President Is Missing | 08.09.2019 | 2018 | Mount hope was evacuated after a power plant explosion. After they returned, something was horribly wrong. Quiet freaking what the future may bring concerning artificial intelligence. |
James Patterson | The Warning | 09.11.2019 | 2019 | Terrorists are planning a cyber-attack with inside help of the White House. The President goes undercover to save his people. A superb plot. |
James Patterson | The First Lady | 24.12.2019 | 2018 | The President is caught up in a scandal. To win the vote, the First Lady needs to stand by his side, but she goes missing. Quite a few times I found myself caught on the wrong foot. |
James Patterson | Mary, Mary | 28.01.2020 | 2005 | Somebody is murdering Hollywood's A-list, followed by emails describing it in vivid details. As the case grows, Alex Cross is called in to find a pattern to stop it. Precise manipulation. |
James Patterson | Juror Nr. 3 | 02.03.2020 | 2018 | Ruby Bozarth faces the impossible task defending a football star accused of murder. Then she discovers the jury can't be trusted. The mystery I well wrapped. |
James Patterson | Pop Goes The Weasel | 27.05.2020 | 1999 | Geoffrey Shafer, a man who never loses, he is prepared to play the game of games for the highest stakes off all. Alex Cross is determined to unmask the man he nicknamed the weasel. |
James Patterson | Texas Ranger | 27.06.2021 | 2018 | Rory Yates, a Texas Ranger, is named as a suspect in Anne's murder. His only choice is to find the killer himself. He risks his job, his pride and his reputation. Amazing. |
James Patterson | Toys | 22.11.2022 | 2011 | Hays Baker suddenly finds himself on the other side of the gun, forced to leave family and fight for his live. He enlists all of his training to uncover the truth that will save billions of lives. A science fiction I never want to experience, a thriller on a hyperplane. |
James Patterson | The Quickie | 07.12.2023 | 2007 | Lauren Stillwell sees her husband with another women and pays back with a one-night stand. Then Lauren witnesses the murder of her one-night stand. High octane stuff. |
James Swallow | Shadow | 25.02.2020 | 2019 | A ruthless terrorist breaks out. A scientist is abducted. A lethal contagion threatens the Middle East. Ex-MI6 Officer Marc Dane is always a step behind. Fast moving. |
Jane Harper | Force Of Nature | 15.12.2018 | 2017 | Five women leave the comfort zone by a hike in the rugged landscape. But only four turn back. Not quite my favourite read. |
Jeff Abbott | PANIC | 30.09.2006 | ? | Very exiting |
Jeff Abbott | Trust Me | 13.12.2010 | ? | Very exiting |
Jeff Abbott | The Last Minute | 03.02.2007 | ? | Very exiting |
Jeff Abbott | The First Order | 15.06.2017 | 2016 | Determined to stop his brother from committing a crime that may start a terrible war, no less than to assassinate the Russian President, Sam Capra goes undercover. Very thrilling.Very exiting |
Jeffrey Archer | False Impression | 03.02.2007 | 2005 | Very exiting, tycoon collects paintings illegal. |
Jeffrey Archer | Cometh The Hour | 22.09.2017 | 2016 | No bullets are shot, but intrigues can be no less deadly. It baffles me how far Lady Virginia goes for greed. For a change quite thrilling. |
Jeffrey Archer | Nothing Ventured | 24.10.2020 | 2019 | How William Warwick becomes a detective. Didn't know he's that good. |
Jeffrey Archer | Tell Tale | 14.03.2021 | 2017 | First time I read short stories. Quite good. |
Jeffrey Archer | Turn A Blind Eye | 12.12.2021 | 2021 | Inspector William Warwick goes undercover to expose corruption. Soon he realizes the corruption goes far higher than his initial assessment. A fabulous and nail baiting twist. |
Jeffrey Archer | Heads You Win | 03.03.2023 | 2018 | When Alexanders Father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the State, Sasha, he and his mother have to escape. 30 years later both come to realize they must face the past they left behind, by visiting Leningrad. A fabulous read. |
Jeffrey Archer | Next In Line | 09.05.2023 | 2023 | When an attack on the royal family is a matter of when, not if, Chief inspector William Warwick is sent to investigate. The clock is ticking as a renegade organisation has the security of the Country and the Crown in its sights. Great story. |
Jeffery Deaver | The Vanished Man | 05.10.2003 | 2003 | Very exiting |
Jeffery Deaver | The Stone Monkey | 07.07.2002 | 2002 | |
Jeffery Deaver | The Burning Wire | 26.03.2011 | 2010 | Very gripping |
Jeffery Deaver | Sealed with a kiss. Marked with death. | 06.05.2013 | 2012 | Kathryn Dance with body language skills. Well enough. |
Jeffery Deaver | The Steel Kiss | 11.11.2017 | 2017 | Detective Amelia Sachs is being watched from a murderer who kills by remote control. Although 700 pages thick, suspense keeps a relentless grip on the book. |
Jeffery Deaver | The Cutting Edge | 05.07.2019 | 2018 | Lincoln Rhyme hunts the murder of newly married couples because of the engagement ring it seems. Very good plot. |
Jeffery Deaver | The Midnight Lock | 09.07.2022 | 2020 | He calls himself "The Locksmith". No door can keep him out. No security system can catch him. And now he's about to kill. The very definition of a page-turner. |
Jo Nesbo | The Thirst | 02.01.2018 | 2017 | When Harry Hole deals with a particular vicious killer, he gets suspicious its connected to his one failed case. Very thrilling in spite of over 600 pages. |
Jo Nesbo | Knife | 14.11.2020 | 2019 | When Harry Hole wakes up with blood on his hands next to lifeless Rakel, he knows everything's only going to get worse. Complicated, disturbing and twisting. |
Jo Nesbo | The Snowman | 20.06.2021 | 2010 | On the night the first snow falls, a young mother vanishes from her home. When a second woman disappears it seems that Harry's worst fears are confirmed: A serial killer. Exceptional. |
Jo Nesbo | The Bat | 05.11.2021 | 2013 | A Norwegian girl on a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can. Many side stories to skip, but it ends searing. |
Jo Nesbo | Cockroaches | 21.08.2022 | 2014 | The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room in Bangkok. After Harry has been sent to investigate things only get more complicated. Not solving a murder case is the least of his problems. |
Jo Nesbo | Police | 25.11.2023 | 2013 | Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve. But this time Harry Hole can't help anyone, least of all himself. 627 twisting and tense pages. |
Jo Spain | The Confession | 22.09.2018 | 2018 | The disgraced banker McNamara is brutally attacked in his villa. When the intruder turns himself in, the police suspects a calculated deadly game. Well enough. |
John Conolly | The Wisperers | 30.04.2011 | 2010 | Waited for the thrill until finish. |
John Conolly | Every Dead Thing | 06.10.2022 | 2010 | Charlie Parker is shattered by the brutal killings of his wife and child by the Traveling Man. A deeply disturbing story. |
John Grisham | The Partner | 1997 | Close to reality makes it vicious. | |
John Grisham | The Rainmaker | 1995 | Close to reality makes it vicious. | |
John Grisham | The Chamber | 1994 | Close to reality makes it vicious. | |
John Grisham | The Runaway Jury | 1996 | Close to reality makes it vicious | |
John Grisham | A Time To Kill | 1989 | First edition. Close to reality makes it vicious. | |
John Grisham | The Pelican Brief | 1992 | Stopped reading because too close to reality. | |
John Grisham | The Broker | 26.03.2022 | 2005 | The outgoing President grants a controversial pardon to Joel Backman, only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill Backman? Not as exciting as I expected. |
John Grisham | Theodore Boone | 09.10.2022 | 2010 | A perfect murder, a faceless witness but a thirteen year old knows the whole truth. Lucky I didn't miss it. |
John Grisham | The Racketeer | 25.10.2022 | 2012 | Five years ago, the FBI has set Bannister up as the fall guy for a crime. Then Judge Raymond Fawcett is found dead in a remote lakeside cabin, and Bannister knows who killed him. Ingenious. |
John Grisham | The Judge's List | 17.03.2023 | 2022 | Lacy Stoltz meets the mysterious, terrified Jeri Crosby, whose father was murdered twenty years earlier. The man responsible, a judge, is brilliant, patient and always a step ahead of law enforcement. Exceptionally. |
John Grisham | The Summons | 02.04.2023 | 2002 | Judge Atlee, with the end in sight, issues a summons to Ray Atlee, a law professor. But the meeting does not take place, the Judge dies too soon and leaves a shocking secret behind. It takes a while before it gets exciting. |
John Grisham | Sparring Partners | 11.07.2023 | 2023 | Three stories in one book. I wasn't aware I bought short stories. |
John Grisham | The Boys From Biloxi | 18.12.2023 | 2022 | Keith Rudy followed in his father's footsteps and became a prosecutor. Hugh Malco preferred the nightlive and worked in his father's illegal clubs. Then they became the deadliest of enemies. |
John le Carré | Agent Running in the Field | 29.01.2021 | 2019 | Nat, a veteran of Britain’s Secret Service Intelligence Service, thinks his years as an agent runner are over. But MI6 have other plans. Disappointing. |
John Lescroart | Damage | 26.03.2023 | 2012 | The Curtles are a powerful force. So when Ro Curtle was convicted of the rape and murder of a servant girl, the fallout of those responsible was swift. One of them, Abe Glitsky, is convinced that Ro is out for revenge as he is in the crosshairs while the murders continue. It just teems with surprises. |
John Twelve Hawks | The Traveller | 20.05.2006 | 2005 | Medium, rather science fiction, good concept. |
Jonathan Kellerman | mystery | 23.09.2011 | 2011 | Boring |
Jonathan Kellerman | The Wedding Guest | 14.08.2020 | 2019 | Psychologist Alex Delaware and Lieutenant Milo Sturgis are to uncover the truth of a murder case which happened at a wedding. What shall I say, at least I have read the book to the end. |
Jonathan Kellerman | Deception | 02.03.2021 | 2010 | Alex and Milo must penetrate the citadel of wealth and scholarship to expose the secrets amongst LA's elite. Quite good. |
Jonathan Kellerman | The Museum Of Desire | 28.03.2021 | 2020 | Four people have been slaughtered and left displayed bizarrely in a stretch limousine, so vicious that it stretches the definition of evil. Superb. |
Jonathan Kellerman | Serpentine | 12.12.2022 | 2021 | Ellie hires Milo to solve a decades old case were her mother was found in a torched Cadillac with a bullet in her head. Soon he discovers a string of dangerous threats still lurking in the present. |
Joseph Finder | Buried Secrets | 19.01.2013 | 2011 | Very exiting, teenage daughter of hedge fund titan gets kidnapped. |
Joseph Finder | The Switch | 24.05.2018 | 2017 | Michael Tanner picks up the wrong laptop at the airport. From now on he is a wanted man by the government. Taut pacing. |
Joseph Knox | The Sleepwalker | 06.04.2020 | 2019 | Detective Aidan Waits has just one job: to discover the location of Martin Wick's final victim before the mass murderer dies. Mesmerising, but not my read. |
JRR Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings | 01.01.2002 | 1954 | Originally published in three volumes 1954–1955. Paperback of 1000 pages, reading marathon over christmas holiday, too much. |
J. D. Robb | Apprentice In Death | 22.07.2017 | 2016 | The daughter of a sniper instructor, 15 years, ends up as a serial killer. A page turner from start to end. |
J. D. Robb | Echoes In Death | 28.04.2018 | 2017 | Lieutenant Dallas encounters her toughest case yet when NY's wealthiest couples are the targets of a calculated killer. |
J. D. Robb | Concealed In Death | 07.07.2018 | 2014 | Not a page turner, long drawn and linear low tension until end. |
J. D. Robb | Leverage In Death | 20.08.2019 | 2018 | Pau Rogan sets off a bomb because he has no choice. Lieutenant Dallas is sure the violence won't end there. Tough as nails, exiting. |
J. D. Robb | Golden In Death | 05.11.2020 | 2020 | After second murder with a toxic golden egg, Detective Eve Dallas finds herself in race against time. Excellent. |
J.S. Monroe | Find Me | 27.12.2017 | 2017 | Five years after Rosa‘s allegedly suicide Jar gets an email from her. Deeply sinister and intricate, too protracted until last pages. |
Jussi Adler Olsen | Victim 2117 | 23.05.2021 | 2019 | The death of victim 2117 throws Department Q into a deeply dangerous and deeply personal case. Tackles complex social issues. |
Karin Slaughter | Broken | 11.04.2021 | 2010 | The body found in icy waters points to suicide. The chief suspect is soon found in the cell. Deeply suspicious is Lena Adams, detective in charge, who calls the Bureau of Investigation. Tension never slackens. |
Karen Rose | Quarter To Midnight | 10.10.2023 | 2022 | Rocky Herbert walks into his death at quarter to midnight. His son Gabe cannot accept the official verdict of suicide and enlists Burke to discover the truth. They soon realize Rocky was to expose the deep corruption of the police department. This suspense kept me riveted. |
Kathy Reichs | Monday Morning | 15.04.2005 | 2004 | Only last pages thrilling. |
Kathy Reichs | Cross Bones | 17.10.2020 | 2005 | A skeleton seems to be the reason for a body, on which Detective Ryan and Dr. Temperance follow a trail of clues to Israel. Ok, but not really my topic. |
Kate Mosse | Labyrinth | 15.04.2006 | 2005 | Boring, long drawn, 700 pages. |
Ken Follet | Whiteout | 30.05.2005 | 2004 | |
Ken Follet | Code To Zero | 15.05.2018 | 2001 | Luke finds himself on the ground in a railway station. He gradually unravels the mystery of his amnesia and uncovers long-kept secrets. Stunning. |
Ken Follet | Eye Of The Needle | 03.11.2022 | 2009 | His weapon is the stiletto, his codename: The Needle. A cold and professional killer. Frighteningly realistic plotting. |
Kotara Isaka | Bullet Train | 16.05.2022 | 2022 | Satoshi, a cunning psychopath. Kimura, a father to exact his revenge. Nanao, an assassin. Tangerine and Lemon, a deadly duo. All are on the same train, who will stay alive? It only gets exciting on the last few pages. |
Kristina Ohlsson | unwanted | 15.03.2013 | 2011 | Boring, long drawn. Child is found dead, unwanted is scribbled on her forehead. |
Lauren Wilkinson | American Spy | 17.01.2021 | 2019 | Marie Mitchell, an officer with the FBI, has to shadow the revolutionary President of Burkina Faso. But doing so changes everything she believes in. Also read by Barak Obama. It starts boring. |
Lee Child | Persuader | 08.09.2003 | 2003 | |
Lee Child | The Visitor | 20.07.2001 | 2000 | |
Lee Child | Tripwire | 18.06.2001 | 1999 | |
Lee Child | Killing Floor | 28.06.2001 | 1997 | Anthony Award winner, Barry Award winner, Dilys Award nominee, Macavity Award nominee. |
Lee Child | Die Trying | 28.07.2001 | 1998 | WH Smith Thumping, Good Read Award winner. |
Lee Child | Without Fail | 2002 | Ian Fleming Steel, Dagger Award nominee. | |
Lee Child | Echo Burning | 01.01.2002 | 2001 | |
Lee Child | one shot | 25.03.2005 | 2005 | Very thrilling. Macavity Award nominee. |
Lee Child | The Hard Way | 02.09.2006 | 2006 | Very thrilling |
Lee Child | Bad Luck and Trouble | 27.04.2008 | 2007 | Very thrilling. Shortlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. |
Lee Child | Gone Tomorrow | 13.07.2010 | 2009 | Very thrilling |
Lee Child | 61 Hours | 21.08.2010 | 2010 | Second part rather boring. Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. |
Lee Child | Worth dying for | 16.04.2011 | 2010 | Very exiting |
Lee Child | The Affair | 02.05.2012 | 2011 | Didn't surpass Sandra Brown's Lethal. |
Lee Child | Never Go Back | 15.04.2014 | 2013 | Very thrilling. Taken in by his old 110th Military Unit because accused of a sixteen-xear old homicide. |
Lee Child | Personal | 30.04.2015 | 2014 | The army wants him back to track down a killer with a treacherous vendetta. I like it how he deploys his expertise on the case. |
Lee Child | Make Me | 18.04.2016 | 2015 | Not outstanding, somewhat off my taste and Childs expertise. |
Lee Child | Night School | 28.06.2017 | 2017 | Jack Reacher is assigned to find an American, who is planning to sell something to Saudis, with help of Frances Neagley. Very thrilling. |
Lee Child | The Midnight Line | 30.07.2018 | 2017 | Reacher finds a West Point class ring and stops at nothing to find the owner. Not his best novel. |
Lee Child | Past Tense | 25.07.2019 | 2019 | Two young Canadians trying to get to New York City are trapped in a lonely Motel for a game of live. Ingenious. |
Lee Child | Better Off Dead | 15.06.2022 | 2022 | On a deserted Arizona road, a Jeep crashed into to the only tree. Minutes later Reacher meets an army veteran turned FBI agent who is trying to find her brother. A page turner. |
Lee Child | No Plan B | 29.04.2023 | 2022 | One witness sees a women throw herself in front of a bus - clearly suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher who saw what really happened. Lee Child nailed it again. |
Lincoln Child | The Third Gate | 12.10.2019 | 2012 | Strange things begin to happen in the swamp where Pharaoh King Narmer is buried. Jeremy Logan, history professor, is then brought onto the project to investigate. New kind of thrill. |
Linwood Barclay | Far From True | 16.12.2016 | 2016 | After the screen of a run-down drive-in movie theater collapses and kills four people in the troubled town of Promise Falls, private investigator Cal Weaver looks into it. Not gripping. |
Linwood Barclay | The Accident | 11.10.2021 | 2011 | Glen’s wife is found at the scene of a drink-driving accident and appears she was the cause of the accident. As more and more secrets begin to surface, Glen may have to face something much, much worse. But this turned out to be quite ok. |
Lisa Jewell | The Family Remains | 25.01.2024 | 2022 | On the foreshore of the River Thames a bag of bones is discovered. Inside the bag is at trail of clues which lead DI Owusu to a mansion where thirty years previously three people died. Not my style. |
Liza Marklund | Borderline | 03.06.2015 | 2014 | Doesn't focus on one target. This author is not satisfying. |
Liza Marklund | The Bomber | 20.07.2020 | 2005 | I haven't realized I bought an author's book that was unsatisfactory. But this turned out to be quite ok. |
Liza Marklund | The Long Shadow | 12.02.2023 | 2013 | A violent robbery has killed an entire family on the Costa Del Sol. Annika is assigned to cover the story. But as she delves into to the mystery of an unaccounted girl, she begins to piece together a terrifying story of violence. It nearly stopped me reading because of boredom. |
Luca D'Andrea | The Mountain | 28.10.2018 | 2016 | In the Dolomites 3 students were murdered. Salinger from New York, connected by his wife to Bletterbach, solves the mystery at the brink of insanity. Very disturbing. |
Lucy Clarke | The Hike | 28.10.2023 | 2023 | Four friends hike out into the Norwegian wild. But there’s a darker side, a women went missing one year ago. Waiting on the trail is someone who’d do anything to keep the secrets buried. Too much girly talk. |
Mariani Scott | The Moscow Cipher | 15.02.2019 | 2018 | What starts off as an apparently straightforward case of parental child abduction quickly takes on more sinister dimensions as Ben Hope travels to Moscow to investigate. Spellbinding thriller. |
Mark Burnell | The Rhythm Section | 05.01.2019 | 2018 | After Stephanie’s parents died by a flight crash, devastated she falls in a world of prostitution and drugs. When she learned is wasn’t an accident, with rage she joins a covert intelligence organization. Mostly depressing, in between gripping, in the aftermath quite a thriller. |
Martina Cole | FACELESS | 20.07.2005 | 2001 | Drugs, long drawn but nevertheless thrilling. |
Mary Higgins Clark | Two Little Girls In Blue | 01.09.2022 | 2006 | The kidnapper, who calls himself the "Pied Piper" demands a ransom of 8 million. As the FBI close in on the "Pied Piper", one of the girl's life hangs by a thread. Solid storytelling. |
Matt Hilton | Slash and Burn | 31.07.2010 | 2010 | Very thrilling, like Lee Child. |
Matt Hilton | Cut and Run | 15.01.2011 | 2010 | Very thrilling, adviceable to read more. |
Michael Ridpath | ON THE EDGE | 20.08.2005 | 2005 | Very thrilling at bank milieu. |
Michael Connelly | The Closers | 11.08.2007 | 2005 | |
Michael Connelly | Darkness | 15.05.2005 | 2001 | Medium |
Michael Connelly | The Late Show | 25.03.2018 | 2018 | Detective Ballard is tough like a cat and is bound and determined to catch the killer. Worth to read more. |
Michael Connelly | Fair Warning | 25.09.2021 | 2020 | Jack McEvoy, a reporter with a track record in finding killers, went on one date with Tina Portrero. The next thing he knows, he's a suspect in her murder. An interesting change in supernatural abilities. |
Michael Connelly | The Narrows | 23.01.2022 | 2004 | FBI agent Rachel Walling gets a call, the Poet, a serial killer, has surfaced. Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets called too, to a death that seems natural but could be tied to the Poet. With shocking and fascinating twists. |
Michael Connelly | Desert Star | 05.01.2024 | 2022 | Harry Bosch is top of the list of investigators Ballard wants to recruit for the cold case unit. Because Bosch has his own agenda : a crime that has haunted him for years -the murder of a whole family, buried out in the desert - which he vowed to close. A terrific story. |
Michael Chrichton | STATE of FEAR | 02.12.2005 | 2004 | Medium, a lot of pollution control. |
Mick Herron | Smoke And Whispers | 11.11.2022 | 2009 | When a private investigator's body is dragged out of a river, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle to investigate. Since the answers are unconvincing, she remains, however dangerous they may be. I skipped many pages. |
Mo Hayder | Ritual | 12.08.2021 | 2008 | In Bristol harbour, a police diver finds a human hand. DI Jack Caffey's search leads him to a dark and sinister underworld. Quite a creative writing. |
Mycock Kendall | Culture Smart Switzerland | 2004 | Funny description of custom and etiquette. |
Nelson Demille | The Lion’s Game | 21.04.2001 | 2000 | |
Nelson Demille | By the Rivers of Babylon | 21.04.2001 | 1978 | |
Nelson Demille | Gate House | 15.06.2010 | 2008 | Boring |
Nelson Demille | Up Country | 01.01.2002 | 2002 | |
Nelson Demille | The Generals Daughter | 24.04.2022 | 2001 | The daughter of the General was found naked and bound on the firing line of Fort Hadley. Behind the military code of honour, Brenner and Sunhill uncover trails of corruption and shocking secrets. Quite a good thriller. |
Nicci French | Tuesday's gone | 10.06.2013 | 2012 | Long drawn, not my style |
Nicci French | The Red Room | 21.11.2021 | 2004 | Psychologist Kit Quinn is asked by the police to advise them on an apparently simple murder. Despite the insistence of the police, Kit refuses to accept the obvious answer. Very good characterization of People. |
Nicolas Obregon | Unknown Male | 03.10.2021 | 2021 | Detective Kosuke Iwata is asked back to solve a murdering of an English student when the Olympics are just days away. Quite a masterpiece. |
Nora Roberts | The Search | 10.12.2011 | 2010 | Thrilling, lot's about love and dog training. |
Nora Roberts | Carolina Moon | 21.06.2013 | 2000 | Tory with psychic skills, a lot inter-personal. Not a page turner. |
Nora Roberts | Shelter In Place | 19.01.2020 | 2018 | A year after Simone Knox survived a massacre, she meets Reed Quartermaine who helps her to leave with the terrible event. But it's not over because the killer is watching the survivors. First part was boring, second kept me reading but third penetrated skin. |
Nora Roberts | Black Hills | 10.01.2022 | 2009 | Twelve years later Cooper Sullivan felt in love with Lil Chance, he returned to the Chance Wildlife Refuge. But someone has been keeping a close watch on Lil, a secret buried deep suddenly to break out in the open. Gritty crime loaded with romance. |
Nora Roberts | Year One | 02.12.2023 | 2017 | The sickness came suddenly and spread quickly. Lana and Max made their way out of a wrecked New York City. In a world of survivors, where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. Stunning. |
Nora Roberts | Divine Evil | 25.12.2023 | 2007 | Clare Kimball went back to Emmitsboro where half remembered nightmares plagued her from childhood. But the past Clare wants to lay at rest has risen up with vengeance in the form of brutal murder. |
Olivia Kiernan | Too Close To Breathe | 04.03.2019 | 2018 | DCS Frankie Sheehan, a trained profiler, is seeking a murderer with a talent for death. Frankie is too clumsy for me to continue with. |
Parker Bilal | The Heights | 03.01.2021 | 2019 | After one betrayal too many Cal Drake abandoned the police force. A murder victim tied to Drake's past threatens his new future. Not my style. |
Patricia Cornwell | Port Mortuary | 30.04.2011 | 2010 | Boring |
Patricia Cornwell | Hornet's Nest | 25.12.2018 | 1997 | Andy Brazil, a rookie reporter, is allowed to ride with Deputy Chief Virginia West to fight crimes. This three dimensional police life is sometimes too elongated, but goes still with some tension. |
Patricia Cornwell | Scarpetta | 02.01.2022 | 2008 | Kay Scarpetta has to examine a handcuffed and chained patient that didn't commit a murder, so he says. Not surprisingly, the killer is a rather unexpected person but involved from the start. Quite good read. |
Patricia Cornwell | The Bone Bed | 01.03.2024 | 2012 | A woman has vanished in the remote wilderness of Canada. Scarpetta begins to suspect the disappearance is connected to crimes closer to home. Quite good read. |
Patrick Lee | Only To Die Again | 06.11.2022 | 2015 | Sam Dryden takes a call from an old friend, she needs help. Two hours later, Dryden rescues four young girls caged in a desert shack. But how did his friend know what was about to unfold? Action packed and brimming with complex characters. |
Patrick Robinson | Nimitz Class | 20.02.2023 | 1997 | It's as big as the Empire State Building, a massive floating fortress at the throbbing heart of a U. S. Navy Carrier Battle Group. So when the first stunned messages say only that the Thomas Jefferson has disappeared, the Navy reacts in disbelieve. But as Bill Baldridge begins to investigate, it points to a rouge undersea warrior with cunning of a master spy. A real techno thriller. |
Paul Sussman | Lost army of Cambyses | 20.01.2003 | 2002 | Egybt, archaeology, thriller |
P.D. James | Death Of An Expert Witness | 20.07.2020 | 1977 | When the senior biologist is found dead in his laboratory, Commander Dalgliesh is called to investigate the murder. Too elongated. |
Peter James | Not Dead Enough | 2007 | ||
Peter James | Faith | 13.01.2014 | 2000 | Plastic surgeon controls his wife for every minute. Exiting in spite of few bullets. |
Peter James | Dead Man's Time | 05.03.2014 | 2013 | Less thrilling than James Paterson. |
Peter James | A Twist Of The Knife | 18.11.2015 | 2014 | Many short stories with a sharp end. |
Peter Robinson | All The Colours Of Darkness | 20.10.2019 | 2009 | A suicide investigation was closed when Banks discovers the victim wasn't as he appeared to be. Not to recommend. |
Peter Swanson | The Kind Worth Killing | 26.12.2015 | 2015 | Ted meets Lily on a delayed flight. He confesses his wife`s infidelity to Lily. Lily helps Ted to kill his wife. While first half part is rather boring, second part keeps me turning the pages to learn the outcome. |
Peter Swanson | Before She Knew Him | 17.12.2022 | 2019 | After Hen and Lloyd meet Matthew and Mira in their neighbourhood, she wonders if the mild-mannered Matthew is hiding a dark secret. And even if she's right, who would believe her? Pretty depressing, waiting for it to get better. |
Preston & Child | Beyond The Ice Limit | 10.07.2018 | 2016 | Sience Fiction, quite thrilling. A giant meteorite is discovered in the sea, a complex organism from space, and is growing. |
Preston & Child | The Cabinet Of Curiosities | 24.09.2020 | 2018 | After 36 bodies were found, special agent Pendergast and Nora are not the only interested in the case. Didn't know it could get that entertaining. |
Preston & Child | The Scorpion's Tail | 13.10.2022 | 2021 | Corrie Swanson takes a new case involving an enclave in High Lonesome, where a deceased was poisoned and died clutching a priceless artefact. Difficult to put down. |
Qiu Xiaolong | Red Mandarin Dress | 11.11.2020 | 2007 | While Inspector Chen's retirement, two identical murders were committed, which forced Chen back to work. Interesting how a case can be solved with psychology. Brilliant. |
Qiu Xiaolong | When Red Is Black | 21.09.2022 | 2004 | Because Chen is on holiday, Yu has to investigate the death of a teacher found in her tiny room. I only read it because of a free copy. |
Ravi Subramanian | The Bankster | 22.01.2023 | 2012 | A series of murders threaten to destroy the reputation of Boston Global Bank. When Karan Panjabi, press reporter and ex-banker, digs deeper, he realizes, that he has stumbled upon a global conspiracy. He can trust no one if he is to stay alive and uncover the truth. An intricate web of lies, very thrilling. |
Richard Armitage | Geneva | 14.11.2023 | 2023 | Sara Collier is invited to the prestigious biotech conference in Geneva. Behind the five-star luxury, investors are circling, and the controversial blogger Terri Lindau is also present. As events begin to spiral out of control, Sahra can't be sure who to trust. Evocative. |
Robert Crais | The Sentry | 05.01.2012 | 2011 | Very thrilling, adviceable to read more. |
Robert Crais | Indigo Slam | 12.05.2013 | 1998 | Very thrilling, master counterfeiter is chased by Russians. |
Robert Crais | The Wanted | 20.04.2019 | 2017 | When the mother of seventeen year old Tyson finds a $40'000 Rolex watch, she gets in touch with Elvis Cole for some digging. |
Robert Goddard | Panic Room | 20.02.2019 | 2018 | Blake acting as a house-sitter wants to solve the mystery of the panic room. It only starts at end of book to thrill. |
Robert Harris | An Officer And A Spyy | 25.01.2014 | 2013 | Because nothing familiar was available, I picked a new author. Although I don't like war stories, I was intrigued by this spy story based on truth, wrapped up with unbelievable deceit and corruption. |
Robert Harris | The Ghost | 20.11.2018 | 2007 | After a ghost-writer to write the memoirs of former British prime minister was found dead, the replacement was also propelled by deception and intrigue into a deadly assignment. Brilliantly persuasive. |
Robert Harris | The Second Sleep | 04.12.2020 | 2019 | Life started new at 2025 and was set back to around 1400. Priest Christopher Fairfax must arrive at a remote village in Exmoor, where he uncovers a dangerous secret. Terrifying lookout. |
Robert Harris | Act Of Oblivion | 03.11.2023 | 2023 | 1660, Colonel Edward and Colonel William having been found guilty of high treason for the murdering of a king. They are wanted and on the run. I should have known I don't like too much history. |
Robert Ludlum | The Ambler Warning | 12.08.2006 | 2005 | Very thrilling, adviceable to read more. |
Robert Ludlum | The Sigma Protokoll | 18.11.2006 | 2001 | Thrilling, action in Zurich and some other places in Switzerland, 600 pages. The last novel written entirely by Ludlum. |
Robert Ludlum | The Bancroft Strategy | 26.05.2007 | 2006 | For CHF 19.90 too expensive, exiting. |
Robert Ludlum | The Altman Code | 02.02.2008 | 2003 | Exiting like each copy, all adviceable. |
Robert Ludlum | The Arctic Event | 10.04.2008 | 2007 | Exiting like each copy |
Robert Ludlum | The Lazarus Vendetta | 02.05.2008 | 2004 | |
Robert Ludlum | The Hades Factor | 02.05.2008 | 2000 | |
Robert Ludlum | The Prometheus Deception | 24.05.2008 | 2000 | Exiting like each copy |
Robert Ludlum | The Bourne Imperative | 24.10.2012 | 2012 | Exiting like each copy, with Mossad agent Rebeka. |
Robert Ludlum | The Ostermann Weekend | 30.11.2013 | 1972 | Small in pages but hugely stuffed with surprises. |
Robert Ludlum | The Janson Option | 15.01.2015 | 2015 | I affiliate to Chicago Sun-Times: Don’t ever begin a Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day. |
Robert Ludlum | The Geneva Strategy | 28.02.2016 | 2015 | Jon Smith chases brainwashing drugs down to it's developers before spreading. |
Robert Ludlum | The Patriot Attack | 28.05.2016 | 2016 | Jon Smith battles against very sophisticated weapons, very thrilling. |
Robert Ludlum | The Threadstone Exile | 17.09.2022 | 2021 | Adam Hayes agrees to transport Zoe Cabot, the daughter of a tech baron, to s small coastal city. But it goes horribly wrong when Zoe is kidnapped. That's what I call a page turner. |
Ruth Ware | The Turn Of The Key | 01.08.2020 | 2019 | When Rowan gets a live-in nanny position she doesn't know she is stepping into a nightmare. Something different, quite good. |
Sam Bourne | To Kill The President | 02.09.2017 | 2020 | The USA has elected a volatile demagogue as President, backed by his ruthless chief strategist Crawford McNamara. Not quite my style. |
Sam Bourne | To Kill The Truth | 25.10.2021 | 2019 | Someone is rewriting history by erasing it. Museums and libraries burn across the world. But who stands most to gain from the chaos? Not convincing enough. |
Sandy McCutcheon | Peace Crimes | 04.05.2022 | 1998 | Ivan Isakovic stands in the way of the reintroduction of fascism in Croatia for the Prema Foundation. Sava Golitsyn involuntarily interferes and fights for his life. Not recommendable. |
Sandra Brown | hello, darkness | 10.02.2004 | 2003 | Most of them are exiting, adviceable. I'm not sure if all the dates are correct. |
Sandra Brown | The Alibi | 22.09.2001 | 1999 | |
Sandra Brown | The Witness | 22.08.2001 | 1995 | |
Sandra Brown | The Switch | 22.11.2001 | 2000 | |
Sandra Brown | Standoff | 01.01.2002 | 2000 | |
Sandra Brown | Fat Thuesday | 09.09.2002 | 1997 | |
Sandra Brown | Where there's smoke | 07.10.2002 | 1993 | |
Sandra Brown | Unspeakable | 14.10.2002 | 1998 | |
Sandra Brown | Envy | 29.11.2002 | 2001 | |
Sandra Brown | The Crush | 10.05.2003 | 2002 | |
Sandra Brown | Tough Customer | 13.12.2010 | 2010 | After a long break, I got a copy because I found nothing more compelling on the shelf. Now I have to admit her writing is still appealing. |
Sandra Brown | Lethal | 20.04.2012 | 2011 | Very exiting, best edition so far. I wonder if next copy can live up to it? |
Sandra Brown | Low Pressure | 19.01.2013 | 2012 | Bellamy has written a book based on sisters murder. |
Sandra Brown | Friction | 26.02.2017 | 2016 | After a break, I tried another book of hers. I was surprised how hot and gripping her writting can be. |
Sandra Brown | Seeing Red | 10.09.2018 | 2018 | After Major Franklin Trapper was assaulted, former Special Agent Trapper starts a hunt to track down the gunmen. Quite a page turner. |
Sandra Brown | Tailspin | 28.08.2020 | 2019 | When Rye Mallett flights a mysterious box to a fogbound town he crashes. Irresistible. |
Sandra Brown | Outfox | 16.10.2021 | 2020 | FBI Agent Drex Easton is driven by a single goal: To get Weston Graham who he believes has murdered 8 wealthy women. Another page turner. |
Sara Paretsky | Critical Mass | 17.04.2015 | 2013 | Because book shop had no favourite on the shelf, I tried this new author. Unfortunately it’s not my taste, I permanently flipped pages. |
Simon Beckett | Written In Bone | 02.12.2019 | 2007 | Dr David Hunter, an anthropologist, is called to look at an incinerated body on an island of Hebrides. With a storm starts also the killings. So many unsuspected twists. |
Simon Beckett | The Scent Of Death | 15.04.2020 | 2019 | First, a partially mummified corpse is found in a derelict hospital. Soon it becomes clear that St Jules's hasn't claimed its last victim. Very twisting. |
Simon Beckett | The Lost | 06.01.2023 | 2021 | A plea from an old friend leads police officer Jonah Colley to an abandoned warehouse, and the discovery of four bodies. Under suspicion himself, he uncovers secrets and lies about the people he thought he knew. Until the end of the book, I was barking up the wrong tree. |
Simon McCleave | The Berwyn River Killings | 19.11.2022 | 2020 | DI Ruth Hunter investigates a double suicide that appears to be connected to a dark web of abuse within the music industry. Not quite the page turner. |
Simon McCleave | The Menai Bridge Killings | 10.01.2023 | 2021 | DI Ruth and her CID team deals with two fragile, vulnerable young but not dangerous criminals. She uncovers a history of abuse, betrayal and tragedy. Can she find the couple before they ruin their lives forever? Much better than I thought. |
Simon McCleave | The Devil's Cliff Killings | 20.03.2024 | 2020 | A missing teenager. A web of prison corruption and human trafficking. Can DI Ruth Hunter save a sixteen-year-old girl? Quite a page turner. |
S.K. Tremayne | The Assistant | 13.12.2020 | 2019 | After Jo has moved into her best friends spare room, she is being watched and terrorised by home robots. Not my choice. |
Stella Rimington | Breaking Cover | 02.12.2017 | 2017 | MI5 and MI6 is being threatened by Russian spies when Liz Carlyle is posted to counter-espionage. |
Stephen Leather | First Response | 01.04.2017 | 2016 | Interesting motive to terrorise but too much repetitive actions strains suspense. |
Stephen Leather | Takedown | 11.06.2018 | 2017 | Ex-MI5 Controller Charlotte Button is hired to take down a rogue Special Forces soldier with help of Lex Harper. Uncanny plotted. |
Stephen Leather | Tall Order | 09.08.2019 | 2019 | Terrorist codenamed Saladin plans and executes devastating attacks. Spider Shepherd ist determined to hunt him down. Excellent. |
Sue Grafton | Q is for Quarry | 07.07.2003 | 2002 |
Tess Gerritsen | The Surgeon | 2001 | All the books I read are exiting, most are adviceable. Introduces police detective Jane Rizzoli. | |
Tess Gerritsen | VANISH | 14.10.2006 | 2005 | |
Tess Gerritsen | Keeping the Dead | 12.08.2010 | 2008 | Rizzoli/Isles series, also "The Keepsake". |
Tess Gerritsen | The Apprentice | 03.03.2007 | 2002 | Introduces medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles. |
Tess Gerritsen | The Killing Place | 15.01.2011 | 2010 | Also "Ice Cold" |
Tess Gerritsen | I Know A Secret | 11.11.2021 | 2017 | In a house decorated with horror movie posters, a young women's body is found. But detective Jane Rizzoli and Pathologist Maura Isles are unable to find a cause of death. One women knows the killer is coming for her next. A white-knuckle ride to very dark places. |
Tess Gerritsen | Gravity | 16.01.2022 | 1999 | Dr Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, went aboard the space station. The mission turned into a nightmare when a culture of organism started to regenerate out of control. I have read half through when it started to get very disturbing. |
Thomas H. Cook | The Interrogation | 16.01.2022 | 2002 | Three desperate cops have 12 hours to find out if Jay Small is the murder. Quite thrilling. |
T.M. Logan | Lies | 11.03.2018 | 2017 | In spite of no blood was spilled, I was tense all through the book, creepy. |
T.M. Logan | The Catch | 08.12.2020 | 2020 | When Ed finally meets his daughter's boyfriend Ryan, his instincts tells him his daughter is in terrible danger. What a bag of lies. |
Tom Bradby | The Masters of Rain | 02.02.2002 | 2002 | |
Tom Bradby | Secret Service | 06.07.2021 | 2019 | Kate Henderson, a MI6 officer, has intelligence that the prime minister has cancer and that a candidate to replace him may be a Russian agent. An excellent thriller. |
Tom Clancy | Dead Or Alive | 21.01.2012 | 2010 | Co-authored by Grant Blackwood, featuring Jack Ryan. |
Tom Clancy | Power And Empire | 03.04.2019 | 2018 | A stolen USB stick exposes a terrorist conspiracy between China and USA. Complicated and thrilling. |
Tom Clancy | Line Of Sight | 31.08.2019 | 2018 | Jack Ryan tangles with the Serbian Mafia and the Iron Syndicate while defusing the next world war. Half through starts action. |
Tom Clancy | Firing Point | 07.12.2021 | 2021 | Jack Ryan bumps into his old friend Reneè Moore in a restaurant in Barcelona when a bomb blows the place apart. Not believing in coincidences, he decides to investigate the bombing. It packs a punch like Semtex. |
Tom Clancy | Shadow Of The Dragon | 10.03.2022 | 2021 | A mole spying for China has infiltrated US intelligence. Ryan faces a double race against time. Defeat the Chinese government in their hunt for a scientist and find the mole. The concept is not convincin. |
Tom Clancy | Flash Point | 15.02.2024 | 2023 | A mid-air collision in the South China Sea threatens to serve as a flash point for the entire region. As the tension escalates, a mysterious adversary paralyzes th e American government. Only Jack of the operators is still standing. Exhilarating. |
Tom Rob Smith | Child 44 | 05.05.2021 | 2008 | In Stalin's Soviet Union, crime doesn't exist. But still millions live in fear. Then the impossible happens, a murderer is on the loose, killing at will. Officer Leo Demidov, denounced by his enemies, must risk everything to find the murderer. A real frighteningly written achievement. |
Tony Parson | Die Last | 02.08.2018 | 2017 | In London's Chinatown a lorry with 12 dead women is found. DC Max Wolfe wants to find the one woman missing. Worth reading more. |
Val McDermid | How The Dead Speak | 21.07.2021 | 2019 | When human remains are discovered in the grounds of an old convent, the investigation throws up more questions as the evidence mounts. But Tony Hill and Carol Jordan can only watch from affair. Masterful and electrifying. |
Val McDermid | Beneath The Bleeding | 11.03.2024 | 2008 | The race is to uncover the identity of a murderer with nothing to lose and everything to kill for. Profiler Dr Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan are confronted with deadly toxin and a bomb in a stadium. A first-rate story. |
Valerie Palme | Blowback | 11.02.2020 | 2013 | Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson is finally close to capture Bhoot, the nuclear arms dealer. Pierson goes rogue and put her career and cover at risk. A riveting cat and mouse game. |
Vince Flynn | American Assassin | 18.11.2017 | 2017 | Mitch Rapp, a gifted college athlete, is ready for retribution after an intense training. Very thrilling. |
Wilbur Smith | A Falcon Flies | 1995 | ||
Wilbur Smith | Those In Peril | 01.08.2012 | 2011 | Immensely powerful, disturbing and compulsive, harsh yet compassionate. |
Wilbur Smith | Predator | 01.06.2017 | 2016 | Cross, ex-SAS officer and private security expert does anything to avenge his wife. Thrilling. |
Wilbur Smith | Wild Justice | 06.02.2022 | 1979 | Anti-terrorist chief Peter Stride sets out to find the sinister power-brain behind a band of ruthless fanatics. Marvellously detailed and gripping. |