#BookReview Nash Falls by David Baldacci @davidbaldacci @GrandCentralPub #NashFalls #WalterNashSeries #DavidBaldacci #GCPInsider

#BookReview Nash Falls by David Baldacci @davidbaldacci @GrandCentralPub #NashFalls #WalterNashSeries #DavidBaldacci #GCPInsider Title: Nash Falls

Author: David Baldacci

Series: Walter Nash #1

Published by: Grand Central Publishing on Nov. 11, 2025

Genres: Crime Fiction, Mystery/Thriller

Pages: 448

Format: Hardcover

Source: Grand Central Publishing

Book Rating: 10/10

When Walter Nash is recruited by the FBI to help bring down a global crime network his life is turned completely upside down in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.

Walter Nash is a sensitive, intelligent and kindhearted man. He has a wife and a daughter and a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments, where his innate skills and dogged tenacity have carried him to the top of the pyramid in his business career. Despite never going on grand adventures, and always working too many hours, he has a happy and upscale life with his family.

However, following his estranged Vietnam-veteran father’s funeral, Nash is unexpectedly approached by the FBI in the middle of the night. They have an important request: become their inside man to expose an enterprise that is laundering large sums of money through Sybaritic. At the top of this illegal operation is Victoria Steers, an international criminal mastermind that the FBI has been trying to bring down for years.

Nash has little choice but to accept the FBI’s demands and try to bring Steers and her partners to justice. But when Steers discovers that Nash is working with the FBI, she turns the tables on him in a way he never could have contemplated. And that forces Nash to take the ultimate step both to survive and to take his revenge: He must become the exact opposite of who he has always been.

And even that may not be enough.


Review:

Intense, sharp, and action-packed!

Nash Falls is a sinister, engrossing thriller that introduces Walter Nash, a highly successful acquisitions executive who, following the death of his estranged father, suddenly finds himself working with the FBI when it becomes apparent that something deeply illicit is happening at the investment firm where he works, and he’s quickly drawn into a dangerous web where powerful forces will stop at nothing to silence him, including kidnapping his daughter and destroying his reputation.

The writing is crisp and controlled. The characters are astute, driven, and multi-layered. And the intricate plot keeps you fully engrossed from start to finish, with all the twists, turns, deception, revelations, corruption, power plays, red herrings, violence, and murder.

In case you couldn’t tell, I absolutely loved this novel, and once again, Nash Falls proves that when it comes to crafting exceptionally complex, fast-paced, and expertly plotted crime fiction with unforgettable characters and nefarious storylines, Baldacci remains one of the very best.

 

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About David Baldacci

David Baldacci is a global #1 bestselling author, and one of the world’s favorite storytellers. His books are published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries, with over 130 million worldwide sales. His works have been adapted for both feature film and television. David Baldacci is also the cofounder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America. Still a resident of his native Virginia, he invites you to visit him at DavidBaldacci.com and his foundation at WishYouWellFoundation.org.

Photograph by Allen Jones.

#BookReview Silent Bones by Val McDermid @valmcdermid @PGCBooks #SilentBones #InspectorKarenPirie #ValMcDermid #PGCBooks

#BookReview Silent Bones by Val McDermid @valmcdermid @PGCBooks #SilentBones #InspectorKarenPirie #ValMcDermid #PGCBooks Title: Silent Bones

Author: Val McDermid

Series: Inspector Karen Pirie #8

Published by: Atlantic Monthly Press on Nov. 14, 2023

Genres: Crime Fiction, Mystery/Thriller

Pages: 432

Format: Hardcover

Source: Publishers Group Canada

Book Rating: 8.5/10

Scotland, 2025. When torrential winter rain causes a landslide on a  motorway, it dislodges more than mud and asphalt – it reveals a skeleton, concealed when the road was built eleven years prior. 

Sam Nimmo, an investigative journalist who’d been poking his nose into the murky politics of the Scottish independence referendum, had become the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his girlfriend when he vanished. Now he’s reappeared, buried under the motorway. It’s the perfect cold case for DCI Karen Pirie, chief of Police Scotland’s Historic Cases Unit. What was Nimmo investigating that was worth killing over? Or was it revenge for murdering his girlfriend? Meanwhile, an allegation of murder has surfaced over the supposedly accidental death of a hotel manager. It may have links to another accident on a remote Highland road. It’s a series of puzzles that tests Karen and her team to their limits. And possibly beyond . . .

A darkly propulsive thriller of secrets hidden at the core of a Scottish Highlands town, Silent Bones reaffirms Val McDermid as a crime writer of inimitable power.


Review:

Gripping, gritty, and entertaining!⁣

In her latest novel, 𝐒ilent Bones, McDermid takes us back to Edinburgh, where DCI Pirie and her team in the Historic Cases Unit are investigating the homicide of an investigative reporter who vanished eleven years earlier after being accused of murdering his girlfriend, and delving into a potential scandal involving several politically powerful individuals.⁣

The prose is tight and intense. The characters are driven, intuitive, and tenacious, and the plot unfolds as a complex web of deception, abuse, deprivation, manipulation, control, power, mayhem, violence, and murder.⁣

Overall, 𝐒ilent Bones is a captivating, intricate, and menacing thriller that delivers everything I’ve come to expect from McDermid’s police procedurals, including strong pacing, meticulous deduction, and plenty of suspense.⁣

 

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About Val McDermid

Val McDermid is a No. 1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven million copies.

She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009 and was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010. In 2011 she received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award.

She writes full time and divides her time between Cheshire and Edinburgh.