Angelology by Danielle Trussoni

It's a thriller set in a cloistered world, one hiding a secret society, all of which guard realms of reality and society of which the average person is unaware. Trussoni writes well, which is a delight since the world she creates seems a bit erudite and her description of the rest of us seems a bit conceited. A decent read though, especially if the idea of a thriller set in a convent with angels and demons alike in abundance attracts you. Neither laugh-out-loud nor amazingly tense, this text is the best sort of mediocre.

Andromeda Strain by Michael Chichton

Absolutely amazing. It's hard to believe that out of all the Crichton that I've read I somehow managed to miss this, his most famous early work. Published the same year I was born, it holds its own four decades later as a must read science thriller.

The Lost World by Michael Crichton

Step on a Crack by James Patterson

Code to Zero by Ken Follett

The Girl Who Kicked a Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson

The final installment in the trilogy, I am even more in love with Lisbeth Salander than ever before. Truly, Larsson is a master.

Killer Instinct: Joseph Finder

I picked this up at the local library from the recently-returned stack. Honestly, I didn't expect much from a corporate version of John Grisham, especially a book that proclaimed so, and proudly. Nonetheless this is well-written, and when I turned it in, i was disappointed to find nothing of Finder's other works on the shelf. If you liked the movie Notes on a Scandal, add this to your summer reading list.