The Land and Its People by David Sedaris is such a delight to read — compelling, insightful, funny and powerful at many moments too in its message.
R.G. BelskyMay 26, 2026
Missing Sister is a heart-pounding, edge-of-your-seat thriller that gets off to an explosive start right from the opening pages when a rookie woman police officer discovers that the victim in her first murder case investigation is a man she has long blamed for her sister’s death.
R.G. BelskyMarch 3, 2026
This is the first May Cobb book I’ve read, but it sure won’t be the last - I’m hooked! Cobb has received tremendous acclaim for her deliciously twisty best-selling domestic thrillers in the past such as The Hunting Wives which also went on to be a hit TV series on…
R.G. BelskyJanuary 20, 2026
It’s always a treat as a reader to find a book that delivers a powerful social message as well as tells a good story, and that’s exactly what we get in Under Their Watch — Charlie Ketchey’s compelling and moving novel about the challenges facing a pair of dedicated child-care…
R.G. BelskySeptember 4, 2025
Karin Slaughter has achieved tremendous acclaim and popularity with her Grant County series, her Will Trent series and a string of best-selling standalone thriller novels. So it’s no surprise that her latest book — We Are All Guilty Here, the first in a new series set in a small Georgia…
R.G. BelskyAugust 12, 2025
Cold Burn is the second book in A.J Landau’s National Parks Thriller series and — after finishing it — I’m rushing to read the first one. Wow! This is one action-packed, page-turning and yet sophisticated thriller where the stakes couldn’t be higher — no less than the future of the…
R.G. BelskyMay 2, 2025
I’ve read a lot of the Mark Greaney “Gray Man” books, and I’ve interviewed Greaney about them a few times too. Great writer, great series. So it’s no surprise at all that Midnight Black — the latest in the Gray Man series — is one heckuva terrific page-turning, heart-pounding, action-filled…
R.G. BelskyMarch 11, 2025
If you like John Grisham-like thrillers and legal TV shows and movies, you’re going to love Justice Never Rests: A U.S, Attorney’s Battle Against Murders, Drug Lords, Mob Kingpins & Cults. It’s full of the same kind of crime stories except for one big difference. Everything in this book is…
R.G. BelskyMarch 5, 2025
Going Dark is a riveting thriller about saving America from destruction by powerful foreign forces — both today and during the Revolutionary War at the beginning of our nation’s history. Yes, there are two distinctly different timeline stories in this book: one set in present day when a frightening new…
R.G. BelskyNovember 12, 2024
The main character in Artifact gets killed off in the very first chapter of the book. Well, sort of … You see, Tray and Carey Lennox are identical twins. Shortly after Carey frantically calls Tray to say he’s in danger and needs help, Tray finds Carey shot to death in…
R.G. BelskyNovember 12, 2024
This is the third book by Bonnie Traymore that I have reviewed, and they just keep getting better. There’s no question in my mind that Traymore should be getting recognized as a prominent new voice in mystery fiction. Like her earlier books, The Bluff is a deliciously twisted tale about…
R.G. BelskyOctober 7, 2024
A troubled, depressed man who is having disturbing dreams goes to a therapist seeking answers. But, when he and the therapist begin to explore his life for clues, the horrors from his past suddenly come alive as a real-life nightmare that puts him and his loved ones in grave danger.…
R.G. BelskyJuly 24, 2024
Mike Bond’s Crude: Ukraine, Oil and Nuclear War begins with a terrifying shark attack on a diver in the South China Sea where he battles for his life while trying to accomplish his goal: setting an explosive charge under a huge gas and oil platform. It’s an exciting, heart-stopping scene,…
R.G. BelskyJuly 16, 2024
A Polio Story: Davy Crockett, Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Devil’s Disease is a poignant, coming-of-age tale — inspired by true events — about what it was like for a little boy growing up in America during the 1950s. Yes, there were coonskin caps, Elvis Presley, I Love Lucy and…
R.G. BelskyJune 12, 2024
The War You’ve Always Wanted is a gripping, gritty Vietnam novel that is all about the reality of war - not the myth. There are no John Wayne-like heroes in this book. Instead, we see an idealistic young man caught up in the closing months of the Vietnam War during…
R.G. BelskyMay 21, 2024