Blog & Reviews

Steve E. Clark is an avid reader, and enjoys sharing his reviews of suspense, mystery, thrillers and history.

Take a look through some of his reviews, and you may find a great book to add to your library!

Steve Clark is an author and lawyer in Oklahoma City specializing in medical malpractice. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an honor limited to the top 1% of attorneys. He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America.

Steve E. Clark is an avid reader, and enjoys sharing his reviews of suspense, mystery, thrillers and history.
A Spy in Exile

A Spy in Exile

Jonathan de Shalit’s A Spy in Exile (Simon & Schuster, $27.00). After a promising start turns into a colossal disappointment. The author is a former Mossad agent and well qualified to write a spy novel.  Ya’ara Stein is a former Mossad agent notorious for a...

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Magpie Murders

Magpie Murders

Anthony Horowitz’s Magpie Murders (Harper Collins, $27.99) is perhaps the cleverest mystery I’ve ever read. Susan Ryeland is an editor of a London publishing house whose best source of profit is the mystery writer Alan Conway. After he submits his latest...

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The Lost Girls of Paris 

The Lost Girls of Paris 

Pam Jenoff has published another historical thriller/mystery, Lost Girls of Paris (Park Row Books, $16.99). The book opens in 1946 with a still grieving woman over the loss of her fiancé, Grace finding a suitcase at Grand Central Station lying unclaimed under a...

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An Anonymous Girl

An Anonymous Girl

I reviewed the first book by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, The Wife Between Us, which was excellent with great plot twists, and a surprise ending which perhaps was not exactly what the reader was looking for. The villain did not get what he deserved, receiving a...

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Warlight

Warlight

Michael Ondaatje has written another literary bestseller Warlight (Knopf, $26.95). It’s divided into two parts. The first half is a cozy, intriguing family mystery. The second part unravels the enigma slowly, through the introspective narration of the now adult...

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Only to Sleep

Only to Sleep

The Raymond Chandler estate has authorized another Philip Marlowe novel, this time by Lawrence Osborne. Only to Sleep (Hogarth, $26.00) picks up with Philip Marlowe, 72 years old, needing a cane and living the quiet life on a Mexican beach. Osborne is the third writer...

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