Category: Thriller.

Book Review: The Hike by Susi Holliday

Book Review: The Hike by Susi Holliday

I love hiking! Our family are big hikers, we’ve been hiking with our kids since they were babies, and living so close to the mountains here in Alberta, we are very lucky to be less than a one hour drive to some of the most beautiful provincial and national parks...
Book Review: The Stroke of Winter by Wendy Webb

Book Review: The Stroke of Winter by Wendy Webb

I read the blurb of The Stroke of Winter by Wendy Webb in a publisher’s catalogue and was immediately intrigued; a renovation of a bed and breakfast gone awry due to a potential haunting? All taking place within a frozen lakeside tourist town? Sounds perfect! I...
Book Review: Aurora by David Koepp

Book Review: Aurora by David Koepp

I don’t like watching dystopian films – I cringe all the way through the movies that depict our last few days on earth due to some asteroid, climate event, or alien invasion because I’d rather not watch something so hopeless. But I don’t mind...
Book Review: A Sliver of Darkness by C.J. Tudor

Book Review: A Sliver of Darkness by C.J. Tudor

Some thriller readers may already be familiar with the author C.J. Tudor – she wrote the bestseller The Chalk Man a few years ago and continues to build her audience from that success. A Sliver of Darkness is the first book of hers that I’ve read, and...
Book Review: Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie

Book Review: Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie

I smuggled this paperback home from my recent trip to my family cottage where I was delighted to find this dusty little gem. This market paperback edition of Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie was the perfect little treat to cap off my summer reading, and for...
Book Review: Geiger by Gustaf Skördeman

Book Review: Geiger by Gustaf Skördeman

I distinctly remember picking this book out from a long list of pitches sent by a publisher, simply because the premise hooked me immediately; an old woman picks up the phone, hears one word, and shoots dead the husband she’s been married to for decades before fleeing...