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The Reversal - October 2010


The Pope is Catholic, a bear does in the woods, and the new Michael Connelly is a great read. The Reversal is a procedural thriller you want to savor slowly just to lengthen the time before you have to start ... More

Fever Dream - A Pendergast mystery


Fever Dream is an unusual Douglas Preston Lee Child mystery in that it is not particularly weird. Fans of FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast are familiar with the rather fantastic plots involving Egyptian archeological reconstructions, Buddhist Arch of Covenants, weird Amazonian ... More

Savages


Savages by Don Winslow is the oddest and wildest thriller I have read in quite a while. The characters are most unusual and the story is one very wild ride. Stylistically, Savages is in a class of its own. A ... More

Hush


Hush, the newest mystery thriller by Kate White starts out with a bang:  A terrified, injured woman is being hunted by a known killer:  Exciting, intriguing.  We're hooked. Next, sipping wine, is Lake Warren-a name that sounds too much like ... More
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Dial 1119 - Film Noir Classic Collection 5


Dial 1119 may be the first movie where television is an important part of the plot. This psychological thriller is one of eight movies on the 4 DVD Film Noir Classic Collection Volume 5. It clearly is a B movie ... More

Three Bags Full - A Sheep Detective Story


Suspend belief for a moment here.  Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann is a murder mystery whose investigators are grazing, meadow-dwelling, bona fide sheep whose dear shepherd has been purposely impaled with a garden implement.Now sheep are not stupid creatures.  ... More

Film Noir Classic Collection 5 - Desperate


Just to see Raymond Burr aka Perry Mason and Ironsides as a criminal makes Desperate worth watching. This thriller is also a decent film noir with some great lighting work. Desperate is one of 8 film noir in Warner Brother's ... More

Insomnia Blu-ray


Insomnia is a moody, creepy, and very good thriller that looks great on Blu-ray.  Al Pacino is veteran LAPD homicide detective Will Dormer. He and his partner (Martin Donovan) are sent to Nightmute, a remote Alaskan community where a young ... More

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo DVD


Not having read Stieg Larsson s novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo I cannot say how good this Swedish film adaptation is. On its own The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo DVD is an excellent thriller. This is not ... More

White Collar The Complete First Season Blu-ray


White Collar is an excellent and addictive mystery TV show about an FBI agent and a master criminal who helps him solve cases. The stories are as interesting and original as the characters. White Collar The Complete First Season features ... More

Jesse Stone - No Remorse DVD


The Jesse Stone mystery series is without a doubt a superb TV mystery. This adaptation of the Robert B. Parker books features solid acting and writing and absolutely gorgeous cinematography. No Remorse is the sixth Jesse Stone DVD.Jesse Stone No ... More

City of Veils


Sometimes terrifyingly brutal; sometimes tender, and always interesting, City of Veils is the book to read.  This second mystery novel by Zoe Ferrais is apt to shock, disturb and captivate from beginning to end.Set in Saudi Arabia, a country where ... More