Still writing the new KD Thorne book. Here’s a few thrillers I’ve been reading along the way. Maybe one of these is for you.

Just read SA Cosby’s new crime thriller, Razorblade Tears. It concerns two homophobic ex-cons, one white and one black, who are on the hunt for whoever murdered their married gay sons. This is a serious, very gritty, roller-coaster ride through grief, revenge, and dealing with choices that are too late to change. I was still thinking about it two days after I finished it.

Blast from the past. Read Graham Greens’s Orient Express (originally called Stamboul Train) published in 1932. This is not Murder on the Orient Express, but instead is a suspense novel which involves the interwoven fates of a shrewd businessman, an overworked chorus girl, a vindictive journalist, and a has-been revolutionary traveling by train across Europe from Belgium to Turkey. A complex read focusing on Europe in the 1930s—nowadays really for the history buff—but kept me guessing until the end.

Finally, read Zoe Sharp’s Absence of Light (Charlie Fox #11), featuring Charlie Fox, a female professional bodyguard who’s always finding herself in trouble up to her neck. (I commented on #4, First Drop, earlier this year.)  On this outing, she’s working protection for a search and rescue team in the aftermath of an earthquake and trying, clandestinely, to solve a murder. As usual, she has to punch well above her weight to keep the bad guys at bay long enough to discover what’s what. I figured out one of the subplots about midway through, but didn’t fully understand how it was connected to the main plot until the very end. A fun read.

And on a research note, here’s an article about small town corruption:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/us/guernsey-wyoming-police-chief.html?searchResultPosition=9

That’s all for now!