A compelling thriller concerning two estranged brothers who have taken different paths to deal with a shared personal tragedy....forced to come together when a young girl is murdered by someone out to test their limits. Koryta nails the personalities of the brothers, their troubled relationship, and...
A rugged protagonist boards a train and sees death in the eyes of several men. He tells a young man that he needs to get off the train if he wants to live. And the two of them begin another journey -- but one still fraught with danger and death. . . This was my first book by Koryta, and I was plea...
Michael Koryta takes readers on a thrill ride where two women are fighting for their lives against an enigmatic killer: Tara Beckly is a senior in a small town college and she has volunteered to drive a visiting professor to a conference. On the way to taking him there he makes some unusual request...
'When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'Sherlock Holmes may have been right.....but what if that which remained was still impossible.....and still the truth?A confession that leads nowhere:No bodies.No evidence.And a suspect above reproach.A thoug...
I was a big fan of this author’s Lincoln Perry series but it’s been a while so I was happy to get my hands on his latest stand alone. For me this was very much a book of 2 halves. I see you squinting at me so I’ll try to explain but first, the 411. “Nineteen minutes before her brain and body parte...
A tragic auto accident in a Maine college town has left a visiting professor dead, and his senior escort, Tara Beckley with locked in syndrome.....fully conscious, but unable to move.And in extreme danger.An accident that may not have been accidental, yet didn't go the way it should have.Someone is ...
The Cypress House is my first Michael Koryta novel, but likely won’t be my last. I’m not even sure why this one was on my TBR list, as I added it years ago, long before I started keeping notes as to why I put books on the list for management/periodic TBR purges. It was an odd mix of thriller and r...
The rain had tapered off overnight and given way to a gorgeous day, the sky and sea competing for the deepest blue, a light wind pushing off the water, temperature nearing eighty. The air was scented with ocean breezes and pines and held only the faintest trace of humidity. A quintessential Maine da...
The setting is neat, and the cat sanctuary put me in mind of Roar and Tippie Hedren. I could feel the author's strain as he worked to build tension - kind of like an actor who does a good job in an unhinged role, but you can see their process showing through, the way they are thinking through the ro...
The setting is neat, and the cat sanctuary put me in mind of Roar and Tippie Hedren. I could feel the author's strain as he worked to build tension - kind of like an actor who does a good job in an unhinged role, but you can see their process showing through, the way they are thinking through the ro...
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