Tick Tock (Book 2 of Shakespeare Mysteries) J Robert Kennedy

Crime Scene tech Frank Brata digs deep and finds the courage to ask his colleague, Sarah, out for coffee after work. Their good time turns into a nightmare when Frank wakes up the next morning covered in blood, with no recollection of what happened, and Sarah's body floating in the tub. Determined not to go to prison for a crime he's horrified he may have committed, he scrubs the crime scene clean, and, tormented by text messages from the real killer, begins a race against the clock to solve the murder before his own co-workers, his own friends, solve it first, and find him guilty. Billionaire Richard Tate is the toast of the town, loved by everyone but his wife. His plans for a romantic weekend with his mistress ends in disaster, waking the next morning to find her murdered, floating in the tub. After fleeing in a panic, he returns to find the hotel room spotless, and no sign of the body. An envelope found at the scene contains not the expected blackmail note, but something far more sinister. Two murders, with the same MO, targeting both the average working man, and the richest of society, sets a rejuvenated Detective Shakespeare, and his new reluctant partner, Amber Trace, after a murderer whose motivations are a mystery, and who appears to be aided by the very people they would least expect--their own. Tick Tock, Book #2 in the internationally bestselling Detective Shakespeare Mysteries series, picks up right where Depraved Difference left off, and asks a simple question: What would you do? What would you do if you couldn't prove your innocence, but knew you weren't capable of murder? Would you hide the very evidence that might clear you, or would you turn yourself in and trust the system to work?

Tick Tock book 2 of Shakespeare Mysteries Series was also a good read by author J Robert Kennedy but in my opinion not as good as Depraved Difference.  Don't get me wrong I liked Tick Tock and I do recommend reading it. Maybe it's because I'm still sulking over Detective Eldridge in Depraved Difference. Tech geek Frank has really shocked me to the core in Tick Tock. Not once did I believe Frank was a murder but you never know. I never thought that of Eldridge either. Could you really imagine waking up and finding a dead body in your bathtub? Really what would you do?

No More Time On The Clock

Depraved Difference (Book 1 of Shakespeare Mystery) by J. Robert Kennedy

Depraved Difference (A Detective Shakespeare Mystery, Book #1)
 J. Robert Kennedy
 Would you help, would you run, or would you just watch?
 When a young woman is brutally assaulted by two men on the subway, her cries for help fall on the deaf ears of onlookers too terrified to get involved, her misery ended with the crushing stomp of a steel-toed boot. A cell phone video of her vicious murder, callously released on the Internet, its popularity a testament to today’s depraved society, serves as a trigger, pulled a year later, for a killer. Emailed a video documenting the final moments of a woman’s life, entertainment reporter Aynslee Kai, rather than ask why the killer chose her to tell the story, decides to capitalize on the opportunity to further her career. Assigned to the case is Hayden Eldridge, a detective left to learn the ropes by a disgraced partner, and as videos continue to follow victims, he discovers they were all witnesses to the vicious subway murder a year earlier, proving sometimes just watching is fatal. From the author of The Protocol, Depraved Difference is a fast-paced murder suspense novel with enough laughs, heartbreak, terror and twists to keep you on the edge of your seat, then knock you flat on the floor with an ending so shocking, you’ll read it again just to pick up the clues.


Author J. Robert Kennedy holds his audience captive in this spell bounding Mystery's Best Seller  Depraved Difference. I was held hostage to this awesome read. Depraved Difference was so good I had to read it a second time to make sure I hadn't missed anything and put the clues together because OMG the ending. I never would have thought it. This book is filled with lots of twists you'll never figure out the ending... Best Mystery I've read in awhile,highly recommend a must read. I'm ready for the next in this series Tic Tock and The Redeemer.

  

Book Review- Cage of Bones- Tania Carver

Cage of Bones 

Hardcover: 288 pages

 Publisher: Pegasus; 1 edition (February 13, 2013)

 Language: English 

ISBN-10: 160598406X 

ISBN-13: 978-1605984063 

Author Site: Tania Carver

An abandoned building. A dank cellar. And inside it, a cage of bones—with a shocking surprise lurking within. Carver's new thriller will scare the daylights out of you. Into the house. Down the stairs. Through the dripping dark of the cellar. Someone is there. Someone that shouldn't be there. As a building awaits demolition, a horrifying discovery is made inside the basement: a cage made of human bones—with a terrified, feral child lurking within. Unbeknownst to Detective Inspector Phil Brennan and psychologist Marina Esposito, they have disturbed a killer who has been operating undetected for thirty years. A killer who wants that boy back. But the cage of bones is also a box of secrets—secrets linking Brennan to the madman in their midst. With the death toll rising and the city reeling in terror, Brennan and Marina race to expose a predator more soullessly evil than any they've ever faced—and one who is hiding in plain sight.

This was a very chilling and thrilling read. Had cold chills throughout the book,most def it gets a Terrifyingly Buzzing 5 review. Just loved it!! Gonna put Tania Carver on my favorite author list.

Review - Last Known Victim by Erica Spindler

Last Known Victim by Erica Spindler
Type: Thriller
Publisher: Mira
Publication date: 4/1/2008
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780778325796
Rate: 5/5
Author Site: Erica Spindler
August 2005.

Amid death and destruction, hurricane-savaged New Orleans has a new dark force to fear.

As the rescue efforts unfold, a grisly discovery is made at one of the massive refrigerator “graveyards.” One of these metal hulks contains six human hands - all female, all right hands. The press has dubbed the unknown perpetrator “The Handyman.” But with no way to trace the origin of this refrigerator, and with evidence lost to time and the elements, the case dead-ends.

Captain Patti O’Shay is a straight-arrow, by-the-book cop who is assigned to the case. Her tough, unflinching character is fractured when her husband and fellow police captain is found murdered - surprised by looters taking advantage of the post-storm chaos.

August 2007
Patti, still grieving and disillusioned, gets a call from homicide: skeletal remains have been unearthed in City Park. The unknown victim - a female - is missing her right hand. But for Patti, this grave holds something even more shocking. Found beside the victim’s bones is her husband’s police badge.

Casting aside the very “rule book” by which she has lived her life, Patti is fearless - but so is the killer. As he stalks her she is forced to question all she believes in, to doubt the code she has lived by…because she knows that if she doesn’t find The Handyman first, she will become his last known victim.

Erica spindles a fine web in this Shocking Thriller. In the mist of this post-storm hurricane Katrina is on it's way to New Orleans. Not only is everybody trying to find cover from this devastating storm but for some there is a fate far worse...

Spindler kept me engrossed with the Handyman Killer. I felt like I was playing a game of Clue (board game I loved playing)... Everytime I guessed who the Handyman Killer may or may not be I would be way way off in this game play.. But I do know the weapon of choice is defiantly not with the candle stick...