Books by Catherine Coulter and Complete Book Reviews

Catherine Coulter, Author Onyx Books $7.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-40250-9
A love-hate relationship develops between reporter Rafaella Holland and Caribbean-resort manager Marcus Devlin as Rafaella goes undercover to expose the gangster who seduced and abandoned her mother years before. ``A weak, tangled plot dims the...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Putnam Publishing Group $16.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-13970-3
The second novel in Coulter's Legacy trilogy is a delightful Regency romance brimming with drama, sex and colorful characters. It's 1814, and the young, long-haired, brooding Lord Chilton, Frederick North Nightingale, who briefly appeared in The...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-13878-2
Unexpected plot twists, witty dialogue and an engaging cast of secondary characters contribute to the charm of a new Regency romance by the author of The Heiress Bride . The Earl of Chase's illegitimate daughter Josephina Cochrain, nicknamed ``the...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (303p) ISBN 978-0-399-13778-5
This byzantine conclusion to Coulter's Bride trilogy ( The Sherbrooke Bride ; The Hellion Bride ), set in 1807 Scotland and loaded with sex, splinters under the burden of its foolish and two-dimensional characters. Colin Kinross, seventh earl of...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-453-00726-9
A weak, tangled plot dims the shine of two fairly enjoyable sparring partners in this contrived novel of romantic suspense set in the high-stakes arena of black-market arms and art. Rafaella Holland, wealthy, shapely, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter
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Catherine Coulter, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (380p) ISBN 978-0-453-00641-5
Neither Lincoln Center nor Wall Street comes across with credibility in this first hardcover novel by the author of 18 Regency and historical romances. Set against the glittering Manhattan world of corporate finance and performing arts is a shifting
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Catherine Coulter, Author Putnam Adult $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14143-0
Medieval England provides the background for Coulter's latest spirited romance, a tale that pits willful young heiress Hastings of Trent against her new husband, doughty warrior Severin of Langthorne. The union has been decreed by Hastings's dying...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Onyx Books $7.5 (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-40339-1
This potboiler from the prolific Coulter combines a brisk mystery with a spicy romance between a late-blooming beauty and a tough ex-cop. (Jan.)
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Catherine Coulter, Author Onyx Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-40262-2
There's little pleasure in watching Coulter ( Earth Song ) torment and degrade her heroine throughout this tale set late in the first century. Magnus is a Viking farmer-merchant who does a bit of pillaging ``from time to time.'' On a trip to York he
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Catherine Coulter, Author Onyx Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-451-40206-6
Veteran romancer Coulter ( Fire Song ) again blends likable characters and mildly unorthodox (by the standards of the genre) eroticism with overwhelming coincidence and a dash of humor. This romp in 13th-century England should entertain her fans....
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Catherine Coulter. Putnam, $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-15743-1
At the start of bestseller Coulter's exciting 15th FBI thriller featuring husband-wife agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock (after Whiplash), Dillon arrives one night at a Georgetown convenience store in Washington, D.C., just in time to thwart...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Onyx Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-40234-9
Worn-out plot elements make for an enervated conclusion to Coulter's ( Earth Song ) Song trilogy, set in the 13th century. Damon Le Mark's niece Daria de Fortescue is kidnapped on the way to her wedding: the kidnapper, Edmond of Clare, demands her...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Jove Books $7.99 (358p) ISBN 978-0-515-12993-9
Coulter completes her quartet of Regency-set historical romances (The Sherbrooke Bride, etc.) about the Sherbrooke family with a refreshing twist. In contrast to the rakish men featured in the three preceding books, the hero here, Tysen Sherbrooke,...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Jove Books $7.99 (341p) ISBN 978-0-515-12721-8
Set in Regency England (though not a Regency romance), Coulter's latest historical novel describes, with delectable humor and sexuality, the romance between the beautiful Lady Helen and the Spenser Heatherington, Lord Beecham. A libertine, Spenser...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Jove Books $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-515-12420-0
The household of Lord Cliffe, Grayson St. Cyres, is turned topsy-turvy in this historical romance when his two eccentric great aunts descend on him with their valet, Mad Jack. As it turns out, Jack is in fact Winifrede Levering Bascombe, a young...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Jove Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-515-12044-8
Charade meets Raiders of the Lost Ark in this Regency-period romantic adventure from the author of Rosehaven. Coulter, renown for off-the-wall plotlines, offers a little of everything--spice, mystery, murder and the search for the Holy Grail--as she
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Catherine Coulter, Author Jove Books $7.99 (366p) ISBN 978-0-515-11865-0
""So perfect, like a Hollywood set,"" FBI agent James Quinlan thinks as he enters The Cove, a seemingly tranquil, picture-postcard town situated on the Oregon coast. Quinlan has been on Sally Brainerd's trail since her arms-dealing father, Amory St.
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Catherine Coulter, Author Jove Books $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-515-11351-8
Merrik Haraldsson, younger brother of Rorik, the hero of Coulter's first Viking novel, Lord of Hawkfell Island , buys a young slave boy, Taby, in a Kiev slave market. He also rescues the boy's dirty, half-starved older brother, who proves to be an...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Jove Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-515-10974-0
The second part of Coulter's (The Sherbrooke Bride ) bride trilogy follows Ryder Sherbrooke to Jamaica, where Theo Burgess, an islander, is making a devious grab for the Sherbrooke plantation. As part of his scheme, Theo bullies his niece, Sophie...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Jove Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-515-10766-1
In a display of what poses as wit in this Regency novel, the first of a trilogy, Douglas Sherbrooke, Earl of Northcliffe, tells his wife Alexandra that she is ``as amusing as a boil on a backside.'' Unfortunately, he's right. Worse, bestselling...
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Catherine Coulter. Putnam, $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-15734-9
Early in bestseller Coulter’s smooth, if minimally suspenseful, 18th FBI thriller (after 2013’s Bombshell), Special Agent Davis Sullivan helps thwart a carjacker who’s trying to steal a vehicle from the parking lot of a Washington, D.C., shopping...
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Catherine Coulter. Gallery, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3812-6
At the start of bestseller Coulter’s pulse-pounding 22nd FBI thriller (after 2017’s Enigma), a beeping security monitor wakes up married FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich late one night in their Washington, D.C., home. Sherlock grabs a gun
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Catherine Coulter. Gallery, $27.99 (496p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3806-5
Bestseller Coulter is at the top of her game in her 21st FBI thriller featuring married agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock (after 2016’s Insidious). The first of two major plots gets off to a fast start when an apparently crazed young man...
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Catherine Coulter. Gallery, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5011-5029-6
Two complex cases propel bestseller Coulter’s absorbing 20th FBI thriller featuring married FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock (after 2015’s Nemesis). In Washington, D.C., businesswoman Venus Rasmussen, who still runs Rasmussen Industries...
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Catherine Coulter. Putnam, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-17127-7
Bestseller Coulter’s 19th FBI thriller (after 2014’s Power Play) immediately immerses the reader in heart-stopping suspense. At New York City’s J.F.K. Airport, a man waiting in the security line suddenly grabs a woman and brandishes a grenade....
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Catherine Coulter, Author . Jove $7.99 (343p) ISBN 978-0-515-13225-0
Coulter's latest Regency-era romance continues the saga of the Sherbrooke family, relayed in her Bride Trilogy (The Sherbrooke Bride, etc.). While attending her first London ball, 18-year-old Meggie, daughter of Reverend Tysen Sherbrooke,...
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Catherine Coulter. Putnam, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-15733-2
In bestseller Coulter’s captivating 17th FBI novel (after 2012’s Backfire), FBI agent Griffin Hammersmith learns on his way to a new assignment in Washington, D.C., that an intruder has attacked his sister, Delsey, in her Maestro, Va., home. With...
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Catherine Coulter. Putnam, $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-15732-5
Bestseller Coulter’s overwrought 16th thriller featuring husband-and-wife FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock (after 2011’s Split Second) pits the couple against a ruthless killer with an agenda that starts with the nonfatal shooting of...
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Catherine Coulter. Putnam, $19.95 (416p) ISBN 9780399158070
Coulter's latest, set in 1831 England, offers an appealing blend of romance and mystery. Handsome lord and part-time smuggler Julian returns home after three years spent abroad trying to escape the tragedy of his wife's mysterious death. As he re-ent
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Catherine Coulter, Author . Jove $7.99 (359p) ISBN 978-0-515-14394-2
Coulter's latest in the historical Sherbrooke series (following Lyon's Gate ) stars Rosalind de la Fontaine, a beautiful young woman with an ethereal voice who has no memory of her name, her family or her heritage since being saved and...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Putnam $23.95 (387p) ISBN 978-0-399-14616-9
Trouble, in the form of psychopathic madmen, seems to follow political speechwriter Becca Matlock around like a personal storm cloud in bestselling historical romance (False Pretenses) and thriller (The Edge) author Coulter's newest suspense novel....
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Catherine Coulter, Author $22.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-399-14506-3
Like Jilly Bartlett, who drives her white Porsche off an Oregon cliff in the prologue, Coulter (The Target) has an uncertain hand on the wheel of her rambling thriller. FBI agent Ford ""Mac"" MacDouglas, Jilly's brother, is a tough-but-tenderhearted
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Catherine Coulter, Author Putnam $19.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-14264-2
The strengths Coulter evidenced in her bestselling paperback, The Cove, are also showcased in this new romantic suspense novel. San Franciscan Lacey Sherlock was just a teenager, dreaming of studying piano at Berkeley, when her older sister's life...
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Catherine Coulter, Author . Putnam $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-15584-0
Bestseller Coulter's riveting 13th FBI thriller (after TailSpin ) opens with a bang as psychic FBI agent Dillon Savich thwarts a gang of gun-totting robbers attempting to hold up the First Union Bank of Washington, D.C. Three days later, seven-y
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Catherine Coulter, Author . Putnam $25.95 (403p) ISBN 978-0-399-15503-1
Dark secrets that can destroy lives propel bestseller Coulter's solid 12th FBI thriller (after Double Take ). When a small plane carrying FBI Special Agent Jackson “Jack” Crowne makes a crash landing in mountainous Parlow, Ky., his...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Jove Books $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-515-11584-0
Coulter can't seem to decide between fantasy and historical romance in this third title of her Viking series. Cleve, who was almost murdered at the end of Lord of Raven's Peak, is now an emissary for Duke Rolo seeking the hand of Chessa, Princess of
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Catherine Coulter, Author . Putnam $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-15424-9
At the start of bestseller Coulter’s gripping 11th FBI thriller (after Point Blank), Julia Ransom is enjoying a liberating stroll on San Francisco’s Pier 39 after having been suspected of the brutal murder of her renowned psychic husband,
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Catherine Coulter, Author . Putnam $25.95 (418p) ISBN 978-0-399-15322-8
Coulter's new thriller romance (Blowout , etc.) opens with Ruth Warnecki lost in a cave in rural Virginia while fellow (married) FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are hot on the tail of a psychotic dirty old man (Moses Grace) and his...
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Catherine Coulter, Author . Putnam $25.95 (386p) ISBN 978-0-399-15187-3
The latest in prolific novelist Coulter's series of FBI thrillers once again features high-powered husband and wife team Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. In the middle of a long-awaited vacation with their young son, the two are called to...
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Catherine Coulter, Author . Jove $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-515-13654-8
Those who are drawn to the humor and cozy family dynamics of Coulter's Bride series (The Sherbrooke Bride , etc.), starring the lovable Sherbrooke family, will relish this new installment, which focuses on dashing identical twins James and Jason.
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Catherine Coulter, Author . Putnam $25.95 (370p) ISBN 978-0-399-15056-2
The newest installment in historical romance author Coulter's FBI series (Eleventh Hour, etc.) delivers some of the things her fans have come to expect—a fast-moving investigation, a mind-bending mystery—but readers will have...
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Catherine Coulter, Author . Jove $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-515-13436-0
Set in the 13th century, Coulter's latest (following The Rebel Bride) returns to the world of her Song series (Earth Song, Fire Song, etc.) and tells the story of Merryn, a young woman who's four times widowed but still a maid when Sir...
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Catherine Coulter, Author . Putnam $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-14877-4
The midnight murder of a priest in his confessional and real-time serial killings based on TV scripts are the basis for this latest installment in Coulter's bestselling FBI series (Hemlock Bay, etc.). Dillon and Sherlock Savich, Coulter's...
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Catherine Coulter, Author . Putnam $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-14738-8
FBI agents Dillon and Lacey Sherlock Savich return (The Maze, etc.) in Coulter's latest romance thriller to take down the satanic child-killing Tuttle twins in a Maryland barn before rushing off to California to save Dillon's sister, Lily,...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Putnam 26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-15653-3
In Coulter’s fab 14th FBI paranormal romantic thriller (after KnockOut), FBI special agents Dillon Savich and his wife, Lacey Sherlock, look into the possible haunting of a U.S. senator by his dead wife as well as a more earthly crime: Germany’s...
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Catherine Coulter, Putnam, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15675-5
This seventh installment in hardworking Coulter's (Knockout) Medieval "Song" series employs stock characters (including a wicked witch for a mother), loyal household retainers, a plucky, resourceful heiress named Merry, a villain called the "Black...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Avon Books $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-380-75623-0
In this final installment of the Night trilogy, Coulter once again shows her knack for creating dynamic, likable lovers and engineering outrageous erotic situations. At the heart of a romance between an English lord and the daughter of a shipyard...
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Catherine Coulter, Author Jove Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-515-11230-6
In this historical romance set in 915, English Viking Rorik Haraldsson seeks to avenge the slaughter of his wife and children by the Irish warrior Einar. Rorik's ambush of Einar's castle fails, but he kidnaps Einar's half-sister, Mirana, who proves...
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Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison. Putnam, $26.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-399-17380-6
Bestseller Coulter and Ellison’s intense, captivating third Brit in the FBI novel (after 2014’s The Lost Key) pits FBI agent Nicholas Drummond and his partner, Michaela “Mike” Caine, against Celebrants of Earth, a small terrorist group whose goal is
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Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison. Putnam, $26.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-399-16476-7
Coulter and Ellison's suspenseful sequel to 2013's The Final Cut finds Nicholas Drummond, once a New Scotland Yard star, now an FBI agent based in New York City. On his first day on the job for the FBI, Nicholas and his partner, Mike Caine,...
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Catherine Coulter, with J.T. Ellison. Putnam, $26.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-399-16473-6
Bestseller Coulter (Bombshell) teams with Ellison (Edge of Black) on a thriller that manages to be both intricate and full of jaw-dropping action sequences. Det. Chief Insp. Nicholas Drummond, frequently described as akin to James Bond, travels from
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Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison. Gallery, $27.99 (528p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3817-1
Near the start of bestseller Coulter and Ellison’s exciting fifth Brit in the FBI thriller (after 2017’s The Devil’s Triangle), Germany’s vice chancellor, Heinrich Hemmler, collapses and dies as he enters 10 Downing St. to confer with the British...
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Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison. Gallery, $27.99 (512p) ISBN 978-1-5011-5032-6
In bestseller Coulter and Ellison’s adventure-filled fourth thriller in the Brit in the FBI series (after 2015’s The End Game), Nicholas Drummond and his partner-lover, Michaela “Mike” Caine, travel to Venice, Italy, to meet master thief Kitsune,...
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Catherine Coulter. Gallery, $27.99 (512p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9365-1
Bestseller Coulter’s high-speed 23rd FBI thriller (after 2018’s Paradox) opens on a busy road in Washington, D.C., where an SUV rams into FBI agent Lacey Sherlock’s car, causing her to spin out of control and hit a man, who subsequently disappears....
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Catherine Coulter. Gallery, $28.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9369-9
At the start of bestseller Coulter’s intricate 24th FBI thriller (after 2019’s Labyrinth), Marsia Gay awaits trial in a D.C. detention center for an unspecified crime and vows revenge on FBI agent Dillon Savich, whom she blames for her arrest, and...
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Catherine Coulter. Morrow, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-300408-5
A missing person’s case kicks off bestseller Coulter’s nail-biting 25th FBI thriller (after 2020’s Deadlock). Journalist Mia Briscoe has never forgotten her college friend Serena, who disappeared at a rave seven years earlier. When another college...
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Catherine Coulter. Blackstone, $31.99 (400p) ISBN 979-8-2007-4927-0
In this disappointing collection of five novellas from bestseller Coulter (the FBI Thriller series), the execution doesn’t do justice to the concept: an author of supernatural gothic novels who investigates odd phenomena in 1841 England. Grayson...
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Catherine Coulter. Morrow, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-300413-9
Early in Coulter’s propulsive 26th FBI thriller (after 2021’s Vortex), prosecutor Kirra Mandarian, who moved to Australia 14 years earlier after her parents were murdered, returns home to Porte Franklyn, Va. In seeking to find out who killed her...
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Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison. Gallery, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3822-5
Bestsellers Coulter and Ellison venture into SF territory with their seamlessly plotted sixth Brit in the FBI thriller (after 2018’s The Sixth Day). When astrophysicist Nevaeh Patel claims that she made contact with an alien species, the Numen,...
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