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A handful of Ashes by Rob McCarthy is a mix of detective thriller and medical drama. It  starts with both of McCarthy’s two main protagonists, Force Medical Examiner Dr. Harry Kent and Acting Detective Chief Inspector Frankie Noble at strained periods in their lives and careers. After the sudden cancer diagnosis of her boss, Acting DCI Noble suddenly finds herself in charge of the Major Investigation ...

Sheriff Dan Grayson is in a coma in intensive care with two bullet wounds inflicted by a sniper. The police department of Grizzly Falls, Montana, is in shock.  Then a prominent female judge is reported missing. Her body is found a couple of days later. She too has died from a bullet wound from a sniper while she is skiing. The ...

It’s been one year since you came into this world. On this date last year God endowed me and your grandma with the best gift with your birth. It was truly an unforgetable day for us as our life was transformed and we got elevated to the status of grandparents.You gave us the taste of becoming grandparents. You have brought so ...

Steve Cavanagh’s Thirteen truly kept me engrossed, making me a fan of his. So I started reading his Twisted with high expectations and it did not disappoint me. It ensnared me from the first page until the end. It is a suspense-filled compelling read filled with twists that will have you on tenterhooks throughout. When you think you have a ...

Therapy, the debut novel by German author Sebastian Fitzek, has been classified a psychological thriller but it is actually a crime novel about psychology. Published in 2006, it has notched up sales in excess of eight million copies worldwide.  In Germany, it knocked off Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code from the top spot on the bestseller list. The author has achieved superstar status in Europe and ...

I could not believe my eyes when I saw this on Ebay. This Malaysian first day cover has just been sold for USD43,278 in an Ebay auction by an Italy-based seller named Lirpa Loof. The first day cover was issued in 1963 in commemoration of the inauguration of Malaysia but what makes this particular first day cover so special is ...

I have read quite a lot of legal thrillers in the years gone by and in my opinion, legal thrillers don’t get much better than Steve Cavanagh’s Thirteen! It is the legal thriller Lee Child, Michael Connelly, and Ruth Ware are raving about. The premise for this book is absolutely ingenious! Just think about it: The serial killer is not on trial. He is ...

Kill Shot by Vince Flynn is a spy thriller featuring the cold-blooded CIA killer, Mitch Rapp.  It is a frenzy of action from the start and Rapp kills with impunity the bad guys who cross his path. Mitch Rapp has been turned loose by his CIA handlers to kill targets in a highly classified hit list in the war against radical terrorism. He has done ...

In “City of Veils”  author Zoe Ferraris has created a thriller by weaving threads about the plight of women in repressive Saudi Arabia and the claustrophobic social conditions in their country where strict gender segregation and harsh rules limit interaction between the sexes. The authorities enforces its brand of ultra-conservative Islam, where women’s faces are veiled, voices are silenced, and lifestyles are ...

I see many dead trees all around Miri and I used to wonder why they are not cut down. But now I know why. Standing dead and dying trees are called “snags.”  Such trees occur as a result of disease, lightning, fire, animal damage, too much shade, drought, root competition, as well as old age. Many dead trees remain standing without posing a threat ...