George Burden seems like the average successful upper middle class man who has made a good life for himself and his family. Confession is George's tale of four days in his life during which he is forced to confront the truth about himself, his relationship...

What if you could invent a computer that would be able to predict the stock market? Would you do it and if so how would you ensure that you program it so that it can understand the psychology of the market in addition to the...

“Unleashing Colter’s Hell” by Sean Smith is a top notch, suspenseful thriller of the highest quality. The author’s authoritative life experience and thorough research have enabled him to fashion a story so realistic that you will be waiting for the sound of the explosion to...

Jacob Rohn is part of a special investigation team under the control of the State of Alaska's Attorney General. It is based in Anchorage, where Rohn lives with his black Labrador retriever, Archie. Rohn has been assigned to look into a six-month old case in...

I very much enjoyed reading "The Iranian Scorpion" by William Peace. The story line was suspenseful and fast moving, with seamless plot lines that kept me guessing. Robert, a US government DEA agent, was stationed in Afghanistan to get a handle on and find a...

"Gideon's Chariot" opens with the mysterious death in Langston, California, of Homicide Captain Brad Logan's brother-in-law, Jerry, who meets an unexplained and gruesome death. This is followed by the disappearance of Marshal Gordan, who reported having confronted an alien. The plot thickens when...

Imagine a world where you woke up every day unable to recognize where you were, who you were with, or even your own face in the mirror. This is the terror facing Christine in S.J. Watson’s “Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel.” Christine’s mind...

"Freeway Close" by Susan Calhoun is a gritty, realistic and well-developed book relating the literal 'birth' of a serial killer in Los Angeles. "Freeway Close" revolves around three main characters - the killer, Cathy Buchanan, a housewife struggling to hold her marriage together, and Lorraine...

I learned a lot about legal ethics from reading the cautionary tale called "Disbarment" by Jerry Sonenblick. I am interested in the process of taking the bar exam as a good friend of mine has two sons who are just starting out in the law....

"Life of a Double Agent" by Kenneth J. Kerr brings us into Jim Hunt's Junior year at college. While he was having that Junior year the CIA recruited him to monitor the activities of radicals on the college campus. Once he was graduated he went...