Labyrinth/Catherine Coulter/497 pages

     Labyrinth is Catherine Coulter's latest FBI novel with Savich and Sherlock back for another adventure.  This one starts off with Sherlock being involved in a car accident that leaves her with no memory.  Savich is sure it is just temporary but still worried.  Luckily she is well enough to work on the case--memory or not--and they try to help their fellow agent, Griffin, who has gotten involved in a serial killer case in a small town where everyone knows everyone else and the lead suspect is the nephew of the town sheriff.
     Psychic powers play heavily in this story.  While I usually love to read about this topic, this time it just doesn't come off as believable.  It was a good book but certainly not one of Coulter's best.

The Big Kahuna/Janet Evanovich/303 pgs

This is the sixth book in the O'Hare/Fox series.  Evanovich had previously written the series with Lee Goldberg, but this book was written with her son, Peter. I could tell the difference, but still liked the book.

Off on another wild bad guys chase, Kate and Nick, mostly Nick, push the boundaries of following the rules and keeping a budget.  They are searching for a Silicon Valley billionaire who has disappeared.  His wife and a former business associate are also on the trail of the mystery man.  The Big Kahuna, the name everyone calls him, realizes that other billionaires are being targeted and killed.  And he goes on the run with the help of his grown son and eventually, Kate and Nick.

The trail leads The Big Kahuna, Kate, and Nick to Hawaii, New Zealand, and finally Prague.  Along the way, things are blown up, cars are destroyed, and a couple of businesses are unfortunate victims of destruction and/or cars crashing into them.  And in the end, the good guys win.  

The 6th Day/Catherine Coulter/514 pages

                                                    The 6th Day is a suspense novel in the "A Brit in the FBI" series.

                                                Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine are in London.  Roman

                                                Ardelean is a computer genius searching for a cure for his twin

                                                brother's unique form of hemophilia.  His search takes him deep into

                                                their family history where Vlad Dracula was also searching for a cure

                                                for his twin brother.  Knowing the secret cure had to be in the blood,

                                                there was much drinking of blood--thus the legend of Dracula.  Roman

                                                is more sophisticated but crazy enough to steal a manuscript, kidnap

                                                a would be donor with the "right" kind of blood--and he trains falcons

                                                to attack drones and builds drones that can carry bombs and poisonous

                                                needles to take out high ranking officials in England.  Nicholas and

                                                Michaela are very much involved in the solving of this case that has them shot at, attacked by drones and falcons, bombed and trapped with a madman.

     Excellent novel!  I know the mention of Dracula makes it sound a little corny but don't let that keep you from reading this one.  Great story.

                                                                                                                           

Long Road To Mercy/David Baldacci/404 pgs

Best selling thriller/suspense writer David Baldacci introduces readers to a new character that promises to be a favorite.  We meet Atlee Pine who is an FBI agent in a one-agent office in Arizona.

As a young child, a man entered the bedroom of six-year olds Atlee and her twin sister, Mercy.  This man terrorized the girls, hitting Atlee and chanting a rhyme to choose between the two girls.  In the end, the man left with Mercy leaving Atlee devastated.

Now, as an FBI agent, Pine is charged with solving a disappearance of a tourist from a Grand Canyon mule tour.  Typically the tours take two days with an overnight stay at the bottom of the canyon and the return trip the following day.  But, one of the tourists disappeared and a mule was found dead in the canyon.  Even more disturbing was the mule had been mutilated and letters carved in its side.  

As Pine’s investigation progressed, she realized that there was more than just a missing tourist and a mutilated mule.  She discovered possible ties to Russia and China and that national security was in the balance.  Even more devastating she learned that there was a nuclear bomb hidden somewhere in the Grand Canyon.  A good suspense thriller worth reading.

Too Far Gone/Brennan, Allison/490 pages

     Too Far Gone is actually two stories presented side by side, connected but different.  Security expert Sean Rogan has recently discovered he has a 13 year old son, Jesse.  They are enjoying a 6 week together time when Jesse becomes a target for kidnapping.  Finding out who is behind it and stopping harm from coming to his new family is Sean's top priority.  Meanwhile, Sean's wife, Lucy Kincaid, is knee deep into an investigation concerning one of the head researchers at a lab who becomes unbalanced, takes hostages and must be taken out by police.  Figuring out who is behind the kidnapping and what really happened becomes a tangled story that grabs the reader from page one.

     Great story telling, masterful plot execution, wonderful characters--something for everyone in this new suspense thriller!

Paradox/Catherine Coulter/434 pages

     Sherlock and Savich are back again!  This time their adventure starts when their five year old son Sean is almost kidnapped--and it keeps on going with a split personality escaped inmate on a killing spree, a haunted mansion, abandoned bones from many people and a mystery surrounding a valuable belt buckle that is found where it should not have been.  Coulter creates her classic back and forth style telling several tales all at the same time and ends it all with them being masterfully woven together for a semi-surprising ending.  Great Read!