The Phantom Paragrapher

Review: The Missing Witness - Book #5 Quinn and Costa Series - Allison Brennan - January 2024 This was one book I had been excited for as I am normally a big fan of Allison Brennan's books, however this one was very close to doing my head in. Yes, overall it was a great thriller but it just felt like there was way tooo much happening for my little brain to process. I also didn't like the way Kara Quinn was portrayed and acted in this book, we know that she often does things her way and despite being out of the box and outside the lines of the law - she does get results and her cases get solved. In this book, we start with the David Chen case - the Chinese trafficking ring and Kara has been in hiding as she is testifying in the case. However, this ends up having a pin put in it as David is shot. Violet Halliday is the missing witness, she works as an IT geek for City Hall and we learn she has been helping with another case that involves pilfering homeless grants and funding. Sh...

Review: The Sorority Murder - Allison Brennan - December 2021 Are you a fan of podcasts and true crime tales? Allison Brennan's upcoming novel combines not only crime and murder but also the world of podcasts and how technology these days and crowdsourcing can help solve crimes that would otherwise have gone cold forever. Lucas Vega is obsessed with the disappearance of Candace Swain who vanished three years ago and then a week later her body washed up in a lake at the local golf course. Lucas was connected in a couple of ways to Candace including that at the time of her disappearance a few weeks before, she had been tutoring him in creative writing/ English. Somebody in the sorority or the school has to know what happened to Candace as along with her vanishing is a couple more and as we read The Sorority Murder by Allison Brennan - the various cases will start to intertwine and overlap and if Lucas is lucky, he won't solve just one murder but help close two disappearances as w...

Review: Tell No Lies - Book #2 Quinn and Costa Thrillers - Allison Brennan - March 2021 This book starts with a bang when we meet two college students. One is all about the environment and saving the world and the other wants to marry her and go along with her ideas. One weekend, Emma wants to go on a hike and take some samples of the water as she noticed birds are dying. During the hike, she is killed and soon her boyfriend is claiming it's murder and not the accident that the police seem to think it was. What did Emma find that someone wanted to shut her up? The book then jumps to another side of Patagonia, Arizona where we learn an industrial company is being investigated for illegally dumping their waste into the waters and killing/ getting the locals sick. We are then introduced to the FBI Agents Quinn and Costa as they are thrown into the undercover world and start investigating the company. With agents situated around the smalltown in places like the Bar and the workforce,...