The Doctor by Erica R. Stinson

The Doctor will see you shortly.

A woman wakes up in a hospital setting with no memory of what transpired prior. She is told the Doctor will see her soon. As she explores her new environment, she cannot get any of her questions answered. But there are other women being held in this facility.

Meanwhile, the police are racing to answer the same question. Can they find answers and help rescue the women before a diabolical medical experiment begins?

The Doctor is a dark look at the underside of medical thrillers. Characters are well developed, and the suspense keeps building until the breath-taking climax. Highly recommended.

Lot Boy By J.M. Sullivan

The Shadow is not dead!

This is the sequel to Sullivan’s Second Star. This is the Peter Pan story as you’ve never read about. In J.M. Sullivan’s version, Neverland is a planet far out at the edges of space. The story begins where the other left off. Wendy and her crew are racing to earth in a broken down ship, while Peter is still on Neverland. He is using his considerable talent as a mechanic to build his own ship to follow the girl of his dreams and his own crew.

Tiger Lily elicits Pan help to hunt down the weaken Shadow and help her people destroy the demon only to find that it has escape in Wendy’s ship.

With a ton of suspense that mounts as the evil entity grows stronger, the entire gang is at risk and must work together if they have any chance to survive. Sullivan has nailed this exciting classic.

Review: End of Watch by Stephen King

Out of Control Freight Train!

This is the third book in the Bill Hodges trilogy which started with Mr. Mercedes; followed by Finders Keepers.  King brings back the whole gang from the first book, including Brady Hartsfield, the suicide kid from the first in the series.

Bill and Holly are called in by Bill’s old partner on a case that deals with a murder suicide. The suicides keep mounting and the gang is in a race against time to stop the real killer from hatching a plot to kill hundreds, if not thousands of people.

The suspense in this story is off the charts and it was a magnificent ending to the series.

Finders Keepers by Stephen King

Hodges and Holly are back!

The retired cop and his faithful researcher from Mr. Mercedes is back helping a young teen who is over his head. The story starts thirty years in the past with the theft and killing of a famous reclusive writer. Taken is a ton of money and unpublished works of this iconic author. Because of the threat of being caught, they hide away the trunk of treasure until the heat dies down.

Years after, thirteen-year-old Peter finds the trunk and uses the money to help his family. But the killer is back looking for his treasure.

As always, King brings the suspense in waves as we cheer on Pete and it’s a harrowing ride.

Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris

A monumental story of the human spirit to survive the harshest situations.

We were first introduced to Cecilia “Cilka” Klein in the author’s first book, The Tattooist of Auschwitz. This is the continuing story of a brave young woman who made the best of her environment to not only survive but help others. We are once again shocked at the inhumanity that people are capable but we also are blessed with the true stories of the goodness of people who lead by example.

Having survived the Holocaust, Cilka is accused with sleeping with the enemy and is sentenced to 15 years in a brutal Russian Gulag, inside the Arctic Circle. Malnutrition, disease, sexual abuse, violence and the never ending cold are some of what this young woman must face. This is her story of how she rose above this misery to become a model to all of us.

A highly tremendous story.

Lever Templar by Matt Gianni

Action packed historical riddle.

The Templars found something under the Dome of Jerusalem that gave them untold power over the church. In the 1300, the King of France launched a surprise attack on the Templar, killing almost all of them. No one found the secret.

In this fast-paced thriller told in two time-lines, Matt Gianni put forwards a believable theory. His meshing of the historical fact with fiction is flawless and pulls the reader right into the adventure. In the 1300 timeline, we cheer on Brimley Hastings, an English Templar sergeant as he struggles to hide the secret that give the Templars their strength. In the modern timeline, Rick Lambert and a team of specialists try to find a terrorist who is after the same prize.

Highly recommended