Mike Nappa – Fiction Aficionado

A Dream Within A Dream (Mike Nappa & Melissa Kosci) – Review

Trudi Coffey only realizes that she hasn’t seen Samuel Hill in weeks when the FBI shows up asking questions about him. After a strange encounter with an armed man demanding her help and an attack by a member of the Boston mob looking for someone named Dream, Trudi manages to find Samuel–or rather, he finds her. He’s made some pretty powerful enemies, but right now his full attention is on protecting Dream from the mob. Because Dream has something they want–the map to the location of artwork stolen from the Gardener Museum during the infamous 1990 heist.

With danger closing in from all sides, Trudi and Samuel will have to call on all of their allies to keep Dream safe and discover the identity of the people who have been hunting down Samuel. The real questions are whom can they trust? And who will make it out of this thing alive?

13 July 2020

First Line Friday – A Dream Within a Dream (Mike Nappa & Melissa Kosci)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. It’s a suspense read for me this week, with the third book in Mike Nappa’s Coffey & Hill series: A Dream Within a Dream. I enjoyed the previous two books in this series, Annabel Lee and The Raven (if you’re sensing an Edgar Allen Poe theme here, pat yourself on the back), so I’m not expecting anything less with this one. And that first line is about as punchy as it gets!

3 July 2020

Top Ten Tuesday – Things That Will Make Me Want to Review A Book

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! The girls at The Broke and the Bookish have had me going in circles this week as I tried to work out how I would approach this topic. For starters, I have an insatiable appetite for reading. If you say the word book, I’m interested! For me, it’s not a matter of looking for something to read so much as deciding which of the thousands of books on my TBR continent I’ll pick up next.

18 April 2017

Best of 2016 – Part 2

If you’ve read my Best of 2016 post, you’ll know I promised a post where I highlighted books according to various memorable features. Well, this has turned out to be Part 1 of that list. Which actually makes it Part 2 of my ‘Best of’ series. Confused? Don’t worry! It’s not really that important. Just read the post anyway. 🙂 It is worth mentioning that this list is compiled from books that I read in 2016, not necessarily just books that were published in 2016. Clicking on the cover will take you that book’s Amazon page, and there is also

2 January 2017

The Raven (Mike Nappa) – Review

Publisher’s Description As part of his regular street performance, a deception specialist who goes by the name The Raven picks his audience’s pockets while they watch. It’s harmless fun–until he decides to keep the spare wallet a city councilman doesn’t seem to miss, hoping for a few extra bucks. When he finds not money but compromising photos of the councilman and his “personal assistants,” The Raven hatches a plan to blackmail the man. However, he quickly finds himself in over his head with the Ukrainian Mafia and mired in a life-threatening plot code-named, “Nevermore.” Private investigators Trudi Coffey and

2 September 2016

Annabel Lee (Mike Nappa) – Review

Publisher’s Description Fourteen miles east of Peachtree, Alabama, a secret is hidden. That secret’s name is Annabel Lee Truckson, and even she doesn’t know why her mysterious uncle has stowed her deep underground in a military-style bunker. He’s left her with a few German words, a barely-controlled guard dog, and a single command: “Don’t open that door for anybody, you got it? Not even me.” Above ground, a former Army sniper called The Mute and an enigmatic “Dr. Smith” know about the girl. As the race begins to find her, the tension builds. Who wants to set her free?

11 March 2016