I HE ULTIMATUM by Karen Robards

THE ULTIMATUM by Karen Robards is very good.Bianca was the result of an experiment.  Well, her strength, skill and other abilities were.  She was hidden away by her mother, when her mother was murdered and her house blown up.  Bianca survived and was found by a man, who says he's her father.  Her father, Richard St. Ives, has taught her everything she knows.  She can open a locked safe in seconds, she can steal museum pieces without getting caught and she can kill without guilt.  But, when the government gets involved she may hav met her match or not.  Must read to find out.  Miss Robards is the master of mystery.

THE PERFECT STRANGER by Megan Miranda

How does someone disappear?  Don't take anything with you.  That is what Emmy did, until she got too close to Leah.  Leah is a defrocked journalist and Emmy is running, also, but from what?  Emmy says it is an abusive fiancé, a bad family life anything she can think of to say.  Until Emmy disappears, Leah thought Emmy was her best friend.  And then...... things begin to get strange.  There is no record of Emmy.  The police begin to distrust Leah and they believe she may be a double murderer.  I enjoyed the thriller but have one question how did Leah convince the police she wasn't a murderer?  And Kyle believe who she really was. I felt Megan left a bit of the story out or wasn't clear about it.  Otherwise a great psychological thriller.

WHEN ALL THE GIRLS HAVE GONE by Jayne Ann Krentz

When Charlotte can't find her sister, she becomes a little concerned.  But not too much because she has disappeared before.  When Charlotte tries to ask her sister's, Jocelyn, best friend where Jocelyn might be she finds Jocelyn's friend dead.  Charlotte finds two men at the apartment and decides to confide in one of them, a former profiler.  When other friends start to disappear, the story gets even more interesting.

THE TWENTY-THREE by Linwood Barclay

I enjoyed this book.  There were almost too many plots; I sometimes had trouble figuring out which plot they were discussing.  I was very surprised by the perpetrator of the poisoning. I hated the ending. It was left wide open. But I did enjoy the book.  The Promise Falls police department were looking for the person who put poison in the water supply and in the act killed the man on duty and  over 200 people.  During this whole investigation, a woman at the town college is found dead.  This death seems to be that of a serial killer who has killed two women before.  And an inmate has escaped prison.  The ending of some of these mysteries is not even in the story.  I did not like that.

A SIMPLE FAVOR by Darcey Bell

Not sure who was more twisted, the wife in GONE GIRL or the wife in A SIMPLE FAVOR.  Emily was the ultimate of restless and dangerous.  She wanted more.  More money, more love, more of everything.  Emily asked friend Stephanie to pick up her son, Nicky, from school but failed to tell her she was going to be away for awhile.  She told her husband if he heard she was dead not to believe it, but failed to tell him that she had a twin sister.  What does the twin sister have to do with it?  Well, you must read the story.  It is as twisted as Emily is.

HER EVERY FEAR by Peter Swanson

Can a person be a freak magnet?  Kate Priddy thinks she is. What are the odds of death stumbling upon her, not once, but twice?  Kate is a bit neurotic but these incidents are real. They are not her imagination. Kate leaves London to trade apartments with her American cousin, whom she's never met.  But as she arrives a dead body is found.  As much as she tries to be detached, the incident keeps following her.  Did her cousin leave the country to hide from the police?  Kate needs to find out.

WITHOUT MERCY by Jefferson Bass

As usual Jefferson and Bass have come up with a winner, again.  WITHOUT MERCY is about forensic anthropologist, Dr. Bill Brockton.  He loves his job solving murders unless it's his own.  Working on the bones of a person who had been chained to a tree and used as bear bait, leads Dr. B to a murderer he foiled 25 years ago.  Now inmate, Satterfield, has escaped and is after Dr. B.  The title brings to light whether Satterfield should be taken back to jail or captured "without mercy."  Read to find out what happens.