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Tag Archives: thriller

Author Ariel Lawhon on Nazi-killing socialite spy Nancy Wake

Why haven’t more people heard of Nancy Wake? An upper-class expat who smuggled documents and people out of WWII Paris, armed the French Resistance, and killed a Nazi commander bare-handed, this war heroine should be a household name — but she isn’t. Author Ariel Lawhon sets out to rectify the oversight in her latest novel,…

July 1, 2020 in Podcast, Read - Watch - Listen.

Ellen’s Pick of the Week: Conclave by Robert Harris

Robert Harris’s new novel Conclave is NOT about vampires as one of my colleagues guessed from the title, but instead is an unputdownable thriller set in a Vatican conclave sometime in the not-so-distant future. The Pope has died and the 117 Cardinals of the Catholic Church have gathered to elect, from amongst  themselves, a new…

February 1, 2017 in Read - Watch - Listen.

Andrea’s Pick of the Week: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

This book asks a question that many of us contemplate: What if we had chosen a different path in life? How would that impact not only the structure of our lives, but who we really are on the inside? In Dark Matter, the main character, Jason Dessen, actually gets to meet his alternate self. A…

August 30, 2016 in Read - Watch - Listen, Uncategorized.

Ellen’s Pick of the Week: Mystery-Thriller series by Stephen King

Bill Hodges has recently retired from a long career as a highly decorated police detective and to say that retirement doesn’t agree with him would be quite an understatement.  So when someone claiming to be the Mercedes Killer, the one big case he never cracked, contacts him, he feels he must follow the trail. The…

December 8, 2015 in Read - Watch - Listen.

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