Rosh's Reviews

AUTHOR: Victor Methos SERIES: We Could be Heroes, #5 GENRE: Short Story PUBLICATION DATE: February 7, 2023 RATING: 3 stars. In a Nutshell: A short story combining a psych thriller and a legal drama. Nicely written, but didn’t hit me as hard as I thought it would. Still, a decent finish to this Amazon story collection. Plot Preview: Nick Collins has just been handed his first client accused of murder, a welcome change from his typical civil case clientele. As he strives to find the truth, he discovers that the small town in which his client Ryan is imprisoned has its own way of doing things. Unless he finds some concrete proof about Ryan’s innocence, Ryan seems to have already been judged guilty. Can Nick save Ryan? Is Ryan truly innocent? This is the fifth and final standalone story in the 'We Could be Heroes’ series, described on Amazon as “a darkly inquisitive collection of short stories that examines heroic intentions versus their real-life consequences.” I enjoy psych thri...

AUTHOR: Eleni Kyriacou GENRE: Historical Mystery-Drama RATING: 4.5 stars. In a Nutshell: A historical crime-drama with some amazingly complicated characters. Covers quite a few intense themes. Has minor flaws, but the overall impact is so good that I am willing to overlook the shortcomings. Strongly recommended! Story Synopsis: 1954. London. Zina Pavlou, a Cypriot woman in her mid-fifties, has been accused of murdering her daughter-in-law brutally. Zina can’t understand much English, so while she is in the custody of the police, she can only take wild guesses at what’s unfolding around her. Eva Georgiou works as a freelance Greek interpreter for the Metropolitan police. As an immigrant herself, she understands how lost Zina might be feeling. The common language makes their bond grow, and Eva is determined to save Zina, even though she has her suspicions about the truth. The story comes to us in the limited third-person perspectives of Zina and Eva, in multiple timelines that include f...

AUTHOR: Robert Dugoni GENRE: Legal Thriller RATING: 4.5 Stars. In a Nutshell: A fast-paced and entertaining legal thriller with great characters. Enjoyed it thoroughly. Story Synopsis: Keera Duggan was an up-and-coming prosecutor until her romantic relationship with a colleague Miller Ambrose ended badly. Now she is forced to work in her family’s criminal defense law firm, which itself is struggling after her father’s repeated alcohol-induced misbehaviour. For Keera, who has always been an overachiever and a chess prodigy, this is a big comedown. When wealthy businessman Vince LaRussa, who is arrested on the charge of murdering his wife, approached Duggan’s firm to represent him, Keera knows that this is the chance to get everything – career, family, business – back on track. But there are many challenges as well, not least of which being that the prosecutor handling the case for the state is Ambrose himself. As Keera handles the defense side while navigating through some tricky leads,...