Skip to content
Collected Miscellany
Avid Readers, Occasional Bloggers
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • About
  • Contributors
  • Archive

Tag: thrillers

Reviews

What do you expect out of your thrillers?

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

I expressed some opinions about this on Twitter, but thought I would make it a full blown post of its own. Marilyn Stasio reviews Olen Steinhauer’s [amazo...

Reviews

The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Kevin Holtsberry / 2 Comments

Cover of The Tourist I will be honest.  I am an Olen Steinhauer fan. Have been since I picked up his first book, The Bridge of Sighs, some time ago (and started...

Reviews

Nemesis by Jo Nesbo

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Cover of Nemesis If you like your crime thrillers complex and dense then you will want to check out Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo’s latest Nemesis. Bein...

Reviews

The Silent Man by Alex Berenson

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

The New York Times starts its review of The Silent Man by Alex Berenson this way: A novel can, and should, do many things, but a thriller need do only one. If i...

Reviews

The Ghost War by Alex Berenson

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

You had to think Alex Berenson felt a little pressure on his second book.  The first won an Edgar Award after all and ended with its hero saving New York City ...

Reviews

The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

I used to read a great deal of espionage thrillers.  I especially liked a series with a repeating central character.  In high school and college I used to dev...

Posts pagination

« Previous 1 … 7 8
  • Two Decades of Collected Miscellany, Now What?
  • Now on Micro.Blog
  • Book Review: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  • Book Review: Goodbye to Clocks Ticking: How We Live While Dying by Joseph Monninger
  • Book Review: The Man in the Corduroy Suit by James Wolff

Archives

What Kevin’s Reading

Amazon Kindle art authors Bible blogging blogs Books Children's literature Christianity Christmas conservatism espionage Espionage Fiction faith fantasy Fantasy Fiction Fiction Folklore God Goodreads Historical fiction History illustration Jesus Literature memoir military history mystery non-fiction nonfiction Olen Steinhauer podcasts Politics Publishing Reading Religion and Spirituality Science fiction Speculative fiction thriller thrillers translation Twitter World War II Young Adult Fantasy young adult fiction

NetGalley

50 Book Reviews
Professional Reader
© 2025 Collected Miscellany
Powered by WordPress | Theme: Graphy by Themegraphy