VICTIM SIX

by Gregg Olsen

While on vacation I realized that I had read every book I brought with me.  Searching on Barnesandnoble.com, I came across VICTIM SIX and downloaded it to my eReader.  I was pretty excited since Mr. Olsen has a number of books and I hadn't read anything by him before.  I was also intrigued because Harriet Klausner, aka HARSTAN, had given this book a five star review on both B&N and Amazon.

That said, this book was so awful that I couldn't even bring myself to finish it.  Blood and gore and horrible sadistic crimes against the killer's female victims make it totally unpalatable.  I can only describe VICTIM SIX as having no redeeming value.

Harriet, what were you thinking with that five star review??!??

Pub. Date January 2010
ISBN 978-0-78602-044-7
320 pages
Available in paperback and eBook

DELIRIOUS

by Daniel Palmer - available in bookstores and eBook

Charlie Giles and his partner created software for an automobile entertainment system.  Following his partner's suicide, Charlie's company was purchased by SoluCent and he continues to work on his software in his new capacity with them.  SoluCent is on the cusp of selling InVision to GM which will make Charlie wealthy beyond his dreams.

Approached by Anne Pedersen, a SoluCent employee, he learns that his boss is going to veto the GM sale.  When he confronts Jerry Schmidt in a high level meeting, everything begins to go awry.  He's suddenly out of a job, his mother has suffered a stroke and he's forced to move in with his schizophrenic brother.  When  Charlie begins to evidence symptoms of the same disease, is he just paranoid or is someone really out to get him?

DELIRIOUS is muddled, drawn out and has a seriously disappointing ending despite Mr. Palmer's intriguing storyline in this debut novel.