Xepherus Reads

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!    January 2020 started out hopeful. We even had a decent February and beginning to our March. Then, our lives changed for the better part of a year. I stayed in quite a lot and in doing so, I began to rapidly start to finish the novel I have been writing. Isolation and the ability to work solely on my book gave the venture a new purpose. I developed my characters further and extended the story outward.  Now I am going through my 400 plus page manuscript and fine-tuning the narrative.    They say the next step of any avid reader is to become an author.    I look forward to having the world read my work. I am not a patient person, but with this, I have to be. More news to come.   I will be adding past reviews in my Book Review Rewind series. This will give new readers a chance to view my reviews. I am also reading, which will give you all new reviews.       Have fun reading this ...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!   Fool Me Once and  Run Away  were two novels that I could not put down. I became an instant fan of Harlan Coben's writing style, and his ability to tell stories that delivered shocking finales. I decided to seek out more of his novels, and I am happy that I did. Once again I close another Coben novel extremely satisfied.    Don't Let Go is released by Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. In this Harlan Coben thriller, we are introduced to Detective Napolean Dumas. For the past fifteen years, he has sought answers to the sudden disappearance of his high school sweetheart, Maura Wells. At the same time his brother, Leo, and Leo's girlfriend were found dead. Many years of questions have circulated Dumas' life and there was always a feeling that something was not quite right. Then a police officer is found dead and the car his...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!       Run Awa y  was a favorite read of mine in 2019. I loved the mystery and the shocking finale. In that intense thriller, I was introduced to Simon Greene and his quest to find his daughter, who had gone missing. Along the way, he encountered fierce lawyer, Hester Crimstein. In her seventies, Hester is a non-stop juggernaut of a personality with a nationally aired television show. I had wondered what she had done while separated from Simon. In the Boy from the Woods, we find out.                                          The Boy from the Woods is published by Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of the Hatchett Book Group. In this story that happens simultaneously with Run Away, we find Hester Crimstein is separated from her client, Simon...

      Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!     The crime thriller is my favorite genre to enjoy. I have made my way through many amazing reads, but one author has stood out to me since 2018: Harlan Coben. I was thoroughly impressed by his grasp of mystery and suspense. In 2019 I was given the privilege of reading one of Coben's thrillers early thanks to Harlan Coben, Netgalley, and Hachette Book Group. What I discovered was a mystery that I was reading well into the night to solve the puzzle.    Run Away is written by Harlan Coben and is published by Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. In this taut and exciting novel, we are introduced to Simon Greene, a loving father of three and husband to pediatrician, Dr. Ingrid Greene. His youngest, Anya, lives with the Greenes, while middle child, Sam, attends college a few states away. But it is his oldest, Paige, that has Simon at the end of a desperate rope. Paige has disapp...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!    The Tracy Crosswhite series has been a wild ride from the first book, My Sister's Grave . Since then, seven more novels have been added, fleshing out Robert Dugoni's cast of excellent characters. Let's take a look at the latest in the series.       In Her Tracks is the eighth book in Robert Dugoni's widely popular Tracy Crosswhite series. It is published by Thomas & Mercer, an Amazon imprint. In this latest thriller, we find Tracy Crosswhite dealing with the terrifying events of A Cold Trail . Her PTSD is slowly being managed and her return to the police force is about to begin. She arrives at her job to resume being a lead homicide detective. But Tracy finds that during her leave of absence her boss has given her position away. She has a choice to either go home or work cold cases being left by retiring detective, Art Nunzio. Her decision is made when her former partner, Kinsington Rowe, asks her to ...