Tag: fiction

Scott Turow’s The Last Trial is billed as the final courtroom battle of 85-year-old defense lawyer Alejandro (Sandy) Stern. As a fan of Turow’s novels and Stern, who has appeared in all of them, I was conflicted as I began the book. While I recognize characters, like real people, must retire and even die, I… Continue reading Reviewing The Last Trial

I usually like Stephen King’s books. As a person waging a lifelong battle with insomnia, a book involving the insomnia of the main character interested me.

Critical is the seventh book in Robin Cook’s Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery series. I have now read the first seven books in the series. Like the first six, I found Critical both entertaining and somewhat educational.

Crisis is another in Robin Cook’s Jack Stapleton Laurie Montgomery series. Like the others I have read, I enjoyed Crisis. But there are a couple of things about the series starting to bother me.

This review covers the book Little Fires Everywhere, not the television show based on the book.

On Secret Service is about spying during the Civil war. I read it because I have enjoyed many of Jake’s books, I like history, and I’m interested in the Civil War. Still, I didn’t like On Secret Service as much as I have liked other books by Jakes.

In the middle of the pandemic, I decided to read Stephen King’s book about a pandemic. Sadly, the book didn’t entertain me as much as I would have liked.

Robin Cook’s Vector is in the Jack Stapleton Lauri Montgomery series. Like all the books in the series I have read, Vector was educational and entertaining. Yuri Davydof was a technician in the Soviet Union’s bioterrorism program. After time spent in prison, he made his way to the United States. Driving a cab, married to… Continue reading Reviewing Vector

Eyes of a Child is the third book in Richard North Patterson’s Christopher Paget Series. I have not read the first in the series. But I enjoyed the two I have read.

Chromosome 6 is one of Robin Cook’s Jack Stapleton & Lauri Montgomery books. Since I like medical thrillers, the Stapleton and Montgomery characters, and Robin Cook’s stories, I enjoyed Chromosome 6.