I’m a girl who loves to read, but that shouldn’t surprise you any, because if you are reading this, then you are like me. I love a good book, mysteries, thrillers, love stories and horror stories too. But it’s thrillers I like the best, I just love to be captured by a thriller and three I read recently that captured me right off the bat were written by John Le Carre, Ken Douglas and James Patterson.

I’m what you might call a struggling writer, so I’m trying to get my name out there and that’s why I’m writing some reviews and making these Amazon guides. So you’ll see my name and maybe remember it.

Leeann Logan, that’s my name.

Anyway, below you’ll see a list of the three books I’ve reviewed in this guide by those writers I mentioned above and you’ll also see a list of some other good books.

Thank you for looking,

Lee Logan

Absolutely a Terrifically Thrilling Story!
'Absolute Friends', by John Le Carre
Ted Mundy was a mid level British spy during the Cold War years, never at the top of the game, always a servant who did his job. He was the kind of spy who never had a need to know. So when the Berlin Wall came down his services were no longer needed and he began wandering through job after job, till he finally winds up in Germany sans family, living with a Turkish mistress and her child and working as a comedic tour guide of German castles

Then one day Sasha, friend from his leftist youth, shows up on one of his tours. Sasha introduces Munday to a mysterious moneyman ready to finance schemes to make a world terrified by terrorism a better place, if Mundy's ready to take a few chances once again and of course he is. Sasha, the best friend Munday has ever had, is a smooth talking, charismatic, failure of a revolutionary and from the beginning the pair are unwitting pawns in someone else's game. What that game is, and why they have been recruited for it is the question that will keep you glued to the book, weather or not you agree with Mr. Le Carré's politics. Mr. Le Carrés has few equals in espionage thrillers and once again with ABSOLUTE FRIENDS, he demonstrates why.

There is Nothing Like a Little Dose of Revenge!
'Running Scared', by Ken Douglas
RUNNING SCARED is a super women in trouble thriller that had me reading the night away and although the ending wasn't anything like I'd guessed, I thought I pretty much figured out where the book was going about half way through, but I was fooled. Though not a mystery in the purest sense, this book is all thriller. I couldn’t put it down.

Like my sister, who also reviewed this book, I liked the strong female characters, but I can be just a tiny bit squimish at times, plus I have a child, so I cringed some when Nina was beaten up and lost her baby, but I sure did love seeing her get even. Nothing like a good dose of revenge to get my blood pumping. I really enjoyed how Mr. Douglas kept piling on the troubles and how Joey and Nina kept getting out of the tight spots by a cat's whisker.

This was a fast-paced book that was very hard, almost impossible to put down. I liked it very much and I think you will too.

You Will Burn the Midnight Oil with This One!
'Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross Novels)', by James Patterson
Alex cross is The Deputy Chief of Detectives on the Washington DC police force. He has a degree in Psychology and is very adept at getting into the mind of serial killers. He's black, has two children, he us a widower (his wife was killed in a drive by shooting) and Mama Nana (his cantakorous grandmother) lives with him. Sampson is Cross's partner and friend, someone he can always count on and on of the best characters I've ever encountered in a mystery thriller.

Jessie Flannigan is a secret service agent and her job is to protect some of the children at a private school, among them the daugther of a United States Senator, a girl named Megan. When Megan is kidnapped along with another child, Alex is called in to help. Of course he falls in love with Jezzie, but I didn't mind that because I was so caught up in the story and in the character of Gary Sonji, the serial killer (or is he, you'll have to read the book and be amazed as I was at the outcome). Also again I have to put in another plug for Sampson, a character I just wanted to take home and hug to death.

There is murder here. Good cops are taken off a case, only to have to investigate on their own time. There is frustration, excitement, twists and turns, somethings expected, others unexpected. You will burn the midnight oil with this one, I know I did.

Many More Thrillers for You to Check Out. My sister Lenore says that since this list can have up to fifty books on it that I should mention a few more. So I hope you see something I’ve added that you like.

'1st to Die: A Novel', '2nd Chance', '3rd Degree (Women's Murder Club (Paperback))', '4th of July', 'The 5th Horseman (Women's Murder Club)', 'Mary, Mary (Alex Cross Novels)', 'Honeymoon', 'Judge & Jury', 'Dead Ringer', 'Desperation Moon', 'Diamond Sky', 'Tangerine Dream', 'A Question of Blood: An Inspector Rebus Novel', 'Blood Hunt : A Novel', 'The Hard Way (Jack Reacher Novels)', 'Vanished', 'Vanish', 'Gone : An Alex Delaware Novel (Alex Delaware Novels)', 'S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)', 'Predator (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)', 'Killer Instinct', 'The Camel Club', 'No Country for Old Men', 'Man in the Middle', 'Lifeguard', 'Cover of Night : A Novel', 'Nightlife : A Novel', 'Sea Change (Jesse Stone Novels)', 'Death Dance : A Novel (Alexandra Cooper Mysteries)', 'Seven Deadly Wonders : A Novel', 'The Hostage', 'Sleeping with Fear (Fear (Hardcover))', 'Chill of Fear', 'The Wall : A Thriller', 'Killer Dreams', 'On The Run', 'The Fallen : A Novel', 'Prior Bad Acts', 'Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross Novels)', 'Kiss the Girls', 'Hide & Seek', 'Jack & Jill (Alex Cross Novels)', 'Cat & Mouse (Alex Cross Novels)', 'Pop Goes the Weasel', 'Roses Are Red (Alex Cross Novels)', 'Violets Are Blue', 'The Big Bad Wolf (Alex Cross Novels)', 'London Bridges (Alex Cross Novels)'.