Charlie Donlea is shaping up to be this blogger's favorite writer of crime fiction. In Twenty years Later , Donlea keeps the plot skipping along much like an edge-of-your-seat movie, and similar to Donlea's Guess Again . One of the most popular journalists on television, Avery Mason has a past life and a different name. Her father is Garth Montgomery, wanted for the biggest Ponzi scheme on record. Known as the Thief of Manhattan, he cheated many people out of their

Charlie's Donlea's Guess Again takes readers on a breakneck cat and mouse chase throughout Wisconsin, from Milwaukee to the northern tip. An insidious plan, concocted by unhinged people with haunting connections to each other, unfolds in this well-told thrilling novel. Ethan Hall is a former detective with the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation turned ER doctor. Burnt out by the barrage of grieving families inevitable in his line of work, Ethan left his

Shari Lapena wows with She Didn't See it Coming . With the on-point unfolding of details and Lapena's clear, concise writing, this reader was hooked on this whodunit from page one all the way to the surprising end. Brydon Frost doesn't pick up her three-year-old from daycare one day. Her husband Sam is called, and when he gets home with the girl, he sees that Brydon's computer, phone, and wallet are still inside of their apartment, but Brydon has disappeared. Nat

Wow, be prepared for a terrific page-turner with Jessie Garcia's The Business Trip . This psychological thriller from a first-time novelist and Wisconsin-based writer was top-notch. Two women prepare for a trip. One, Jasmine, has every reason to be frightened as she makes her stealthy escape from her controlling and abusive boyfriend. Having saved and scraped together money for months for her one-way airplane ticket, Jasmine doesn't know what she's going to do when sh