Surprisingly, I haven’t read many of the Alex Cross series.

He has a Ph.D. in Psychology from Johns Hopkins University and has worked for both the Washington DC Police Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation. …

… trying to solve difficult cases while attempting to maintain a relationship with his family. 

Target: Alex Cross (2018) is 26th in the series.

Kinda dumb and absurd — yet I quite enjoyed the thriller.

Someone is killing the nation’s political leaders.

Alex Cross is now on assignment to the FBI and his wife, Bree Stone, is now the chief of detectives for the DC Police.

Alex and a team of FBI agents, as well as Bree and the Secret Service must find who is behind the killings and why.

Before all the mayhem is done, the new president and many in line to succession to the Presidency have been felled.

The plot is discovered and when it is, those who solved this case are truly shocked at who was behind this and why.

T Canyon (2005) is brainless but entertaining.

A typical “thriller“.

Too much action. Too many gun shots.

Characters are cliché.

However, the setting and basic plot appeal.

The murder of a dinosaur “treasure hunter” in New Mexico.

It’s a bit confusing with too many threads:

• A moon rock missing for thirty years.
• A scientist with ambition enough to kill.
• A monk who will redeem the world.
• A dark agency with a deadly mission.
• The greatest scientific discovery of all time.

On the upside, Douglas Preston is an expert in palaeontology, working as a writer at the American Museum of Natural History for many years. A lot of his books are grounded in actual science.

Hmm. Not nearly as good as the previous novel.

In the 12th book of the Ruth Galloway series, everyone is surprised.

Ruth has a new job, home, and partner, and she is no longer North Norfolk police’s resident forensic archaeologist.

That is, until convicted murderer Ivor March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal.

Nelson was always sure that March killed more women than he was charged with. Now March confirms this and offers to show Nelson where the other bodies are buried—but only if Ruth will do the digging.

Curious, but wary, Ruth agrees.

March tells Ruth that he killed four more women and that their bodies are buried near a village bordering the fens, said to be haunted by the Lantern Men, mysterious figures holding lights that lure travelers to their deaths.

Is Ivor March himself a lantern man, luring Ruth back to Norfolk?

What is his plan, and why is she so crucial to it?

And are the killings really over?

Silly and entertaining. I’d call this a Young Adult novel.

Jesse Q. Sutanto is a Chinese-Indonesian author.

She grew up in Singapore, Indonesia, and Oxford.

In 2021, Sutanto published her hit novel, Dial A for Aunties. 

The Good, the Bad and the Aunties (2024) is one of the sequels. A comedy.

On Meddy Chan’s honeymoon travels, the happy couple flies to Jakarta for a Chinese New Years family reunion.

… theft, hostage taking, and abduction. But it’s nothing the aunties can’t handle.