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SUMMARY: The damage is done Alexa Sommer had it all – then came meltdown, and divorce as she is forced out of her job. Desperately, she tries to reconnect with her family and rebuild her life in a new job. But her work is controversial, and her enemies plan to stop her by any means.
The BookViral Review: More often than not, thrillers aren’t really that ‘thrilling’. It isn’t the easiest of genres in which to shine and it’s one in which it is hard to avoid clichés, but occasionally a series comes along which really gets you on the edge of your seat. Toxic Minds certainly falls into this category and next to having a powerful plot with imaginative unexpected twists and turns, it stands out for Bickerstaff’s ability to get readers emotionally invested in his characters. The ones you know you should like and even the ones you don’t! He does this by creating extreme scenarios along with flesh and blood characters who, when inserted into extreme situations, act determinedly but with just enough ambiguity to keep his readers questioning events. It wouldn’t be disingenuous to say that Bickerstaff stays within genre conventions but he does so without ever becoming predictable. He’s not afraid to get into the fractured psyches of his main players and this time around it allows him to introduce a strong element of ethical and social commentary. On this level, Alex Sommer is particularly well nuanced and proves an inspired foil for Bickerstaff’s series lead in Gavin Shawlens.
Another powerful addition to a series which genre junkies will love, Toxic Minds is Bickerstaff at his best and is recommended without reservation.
“Schrödinger’s cat” was an infamous and cruel thought experiment dreamt up in the last century to expose one of the mistaken ideas current in science at that time. Now the cat is out of the bag and, in revenge, he has written up his own ideas on the false trails that modern science has followed.
Ghosts, mysterious deaths, and a new, perplexing character confront Windflower, Tizzard and the other police officers in Grand Bank as they unearth secrets that have been lying hidden in the sleepy hamlet for decades.
A ship’s captain. A crime. A secret. What would you do to claim the position in society that has been stolen from you?
Powerful and riveting Shawver’s Holocaust biography casts a haunting and uninterrupted spell over her readers.
A superb high octane Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction thriller from Morris and sure to be well received by her many fans.
An intelligent and wholly original military science fiction thriller,
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