Double Take by Catherine Coulter

From Fantasticfiction.com:

"It's been more than six months since her husband's brutal death, and Julia Ransom is just beginning to breathe again. She loved her husband, renowned psychic August Ransom, but the media frenzy that followed his murder sapped what little strength she had left. Now, after dinner with friends, strolling along San Francisco's Pier 39, she realizes that she's happy. Standing at the railing, she savors the sounds around her-tourists, seals on a barge-and for a moment enjoys the sheer normalcy of it all. And then it comes to an end.
Out of nowhere she's approached by a respectable-looking man who distracts her with conversation before violently attacking her and throwing her the railing. If it hadn't been for Special Agent Cheney Stone, out to stretch his legs between courses at a local restaurant, Julia would have vanished into the bay's murky depths. Not only does he save her from a watery grave, but he senses a connection between her assault and her husband's death, and sets out to serve as her protector while reopening August Ransom's murder investigation.
Meanwhile, in Maestro, Virginia, Sheriff Dixon Noble-last seen in Point Blank-still mourns his wife, Christie, who vanished hree years earlier. His life, too, is just getting back to normal when he learns of a San Francisco woman named Charlotte Pallack, whose shocking resemblance to Christie sends Dix across the country. Though he knows in his heart that she can't possibly be his wife, Dix is compelled to see her with his own eyes. Once in San Francisco, Dix and Cheney's paths inevitably cross. With the help of agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock, whose San Francisco connections prove essential in unlocking the mystery behind Charlotte Pallack's identity as well as the forces behind Julia Ransom's attempted murder, Sheriff Noble and Agent Stone push deep into a complex world of psychics and poseurs. As the stakes and the body count rise, Savich, Sherlock, Dix, and Cheney fight for answers-and their lives."

Woah, I feel like I just went on a roller coaster ride. What a ton of stuff going on here. We've got the psychic world that is interesting to say the least and we've got Ruth and Dix AND we've got some crazy stuff going on with Sherlock and Savich. What a ride.
I was shown some new perspective on things that I have never even thought of while they were interviewing the psychics. For a fluff fiction book to make me take a different look at things is rather nifty.
I was a little upset that Dix took a walk on the wild side and that he let things get under his skin enough to make him change his morals. I am also pretty upset with him in reguards to Ruth. I wonder where that's going to go?
I liked the Julia and Cheney element. I thought they were cute and a breath of fresh air.
It seems like things are getting a little stressful and too much for Savich. I think he's having a harder time dealing with things that Sherlock is.

Point Blank by Catherine Coulter

From Barnes and Noble:

"The tenth installment of Catherine Coulter's FBI saga (Blowout, Blindside, et al.) may be her most action-packed, psychologically intense thriller to date. As husband-and-wife agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are faced with the most intimately frightening case of their careers (apprehending a psychopath obsessed with evening the score with Savich for some long-ago injustice), FBI special agent Ruth Warnecki is busy trying to unravel the bizarre mystery of a murdered music student found in a rural Virginia cave."

Coulter had two seperate story lines going on this time, they had nothing to do with one another. It should have been a mess and it should have been confusing, but somehow it wasn't. She had a nice blend of the both. If she had done a book per mystery it would have gotten boring at some point. But since she played them both at the same time, it didn't get bogged down.
When we first meet Dix, he seems old. He seems like he's too old to be in this series. Still in the end of this he seems like an old soul. Could be the grief, could be the perpetual confusion he seems to be in.
Ruth is very independant. She doesn't place herself in the middle of Dix's family, but somehow she ends up there. Their relationship isn't the type that either person will just simply DIE without the other, but it works.
I LOVED the scene when Savich and Sherlock get in a fight. I thought he was being a total pig about the whole thing.
This was a pleasant book. For some reason it took me longer to get through it than it should have. I'm not sure if my mind just wasn't fully engaged or what.



Blow Out by Catherine Coulter

From Barnes and Noble:

Secrets, surprises, and suspense are the hallmarks of the novels in Catharine Coulter's bestselling series of contemporary FBI thrillers. That has been true ever since The Cove came out in 1996, with its chilling story of a woman on the run and the FBI agent who saved her.

Coulter's Blowout heralds the return of handsome, perceptive Detective Ben Raven (from Blindside) of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., working again with the ever-popular FBI couple, Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich. Raven is less than pleased when his federal agent friends ask him to team up with investigative reporter Callie Markham in their new case involving the brutal murder of a Supreme Court justice who happens to be Callie's stepfather. And it soon becomes clear that the crafty killer isn't about to stop at one victim, no matter how highly placed.
With the press keeping a spotlight on the growing peril in the nation's capital, Savich must also come to grips with a more elusive case he came upon by chance. Following a minor traffic accident while on vacation in the Poconos, Savich encountered a desperate young woman who pleaded for his help and led him to the scene of a violent crime only to disappear. When Savich goes to the local authorities, he's told that everything he "witnessed" took place almost 30 years earlier -- a revelation supported by evidence (or lack of it) when he returns to the scene and finds that the elegant house he'd searched before was now a ramshackle shell. But that doesn't mean Savich can forget the fear that haunted the woman who came to him for help or change her need for justice.

So Coulter's been walking the line with adding a supernatural element to this series for a bit now. Up until now she was just dancing on the line, but this book she stepped on over. I've got nothing against some "other" elements going on in books, I'm cool with it.
This book took a little bit to get moving. I liked Callie and I'm glad that Ben got his own book. I was pretty happy that Sherlock got to be the lead in this. Savich is usually the one who is the brains behind everything, but this time Sherlock was the one that was on top of things this time.
The whole scene with Samantha and Austin was a little bit out there. Not so much out there as in too much supernatural, just out there as in not really in the storyline. It didn't mesh at all with the bigger story.
I'm thinking that the whole thing with Callie's mom is going to come back. It just didn't wrap up like most things Coulter does. There wasn't a neat little bow. I also didn't like how the bad guy picked his victims. That seemed just a little too easy. Maybe those two things will come back around at some point.
This book lacked some of the suspense and excitment of some of the others.
I didn't not like it, but I do hope that the next one's a bit better.

Blindside by Catherine Coulter

From Barnes and Noble:

"New York Times–bestselling author Catherine Coulter's FBI series never fails to deliver sensual sizzle along with the suspense. In Blindside, husband-and-wife FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich team up again on two vital cases: a killer who targets Washington, D.C., teachers and the kidnapping of an old friend's son. Though six-year-old Sam manages to escape and take refuge with Tennessee sheriff Katie Benedict and her daughter, Keely, his kidnappers quickly strike again...and pay a deadly price for the rematch when reinforcements arrive in the form of Sam's dad (a former FBI agent) and his buddy Savich. But the terror isn't over: It soon becomes clear that whoever is behind the kidnapping has only changed strategies, not abandoned the plan. The investigation leads in unexpected directions, particularly among the followers of a powerful local evangelist. As the story unfolds in a beautiful town nestled amid the Smoky Mountains, the quick-thinking sheriff uncovers unforeseen hazards, surprising secrets...and an extraordinary opportunity for love."

This one is probably my favorite FBI Thriller book so far. I love Katie and Miles and the kids. I loved the interaction with Keely and Sam and how Coulter made them a huge part and interactions in the story.
There were some things in the story line were a little touchy to me. The bad guys were bad because of their extreme zealous religion thoughts. I was a bit touchy because some of the things that the bad guys were saying were not that far off. Not enough wacky to be evil-like.
I like how things ended. I like that we got the big L word and the world seems to have worked itself out. I was a bit worried that Katie would give up who she was in order to have the guy and have the best for her child. She held true to herself though, so I liked that alot.
I'll give this a 3 out of 5

Eleventh Hour by Catherine Coulter

From Barnes and Noble:

"In their seventh crime swoop, FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich track down a very elusive murderer. Father Michael Joseph, the twin brother of a FBI colleague, is slain, but the only witness to the crime vanishes. To the double mystery of murder and disappearance is quickly added a third element: Sherlock and Savich discover a connection between Father Michael's killing and one "committed" on an upcoming episode of a trendy new TV series. Is the murderer a copycat killer or a psychic?"

I loved this one. It was very very emotional. I love how Coulter will mention an agent here and there and give you just enough to hope that there will be a book about them. I loved meeting Agent Carver. I loved Nick. I was very impressed with how long Nick held on to her secret.
I thought I figured out the mystery early on, then I got side tracked and it took me a while to get back around to it.
I really like how Coulter gives you more than one story line at a time, but not so many that your mind is blown. She gives you a nice balance. She's not too mushy with the love stuff and in fact, in most cases you don't really get a ton of looooove stuff going on. You are on the "case" most of the time.
I really liked this case. I loved that you saw all kinds of sides of Dane and Nick.

Hemlock Bay by Catherine Coulter

From Barnes and Noble:

"FBI agents Dillon Savich and his wife, Lacey Sherlock, are in the middle of a frightening case involving two psychopathic killers and a series of ghoulish kidnappings, when trouble hits on the home front. Dillon's younger sister, Lily, has been injured after crashing her sports utility vehicle into a giant redwood tree and, if Dillon is to believe Lily's father-in-law, the crash was no accident. But was it another suicide attempt, the second since Lily's daughter was killed by a hit-and-run driver just seven months ago? Convinced that fast answers could save Lily's life, Dillon and Lacey race to California's Hemlock Bay, and what they find proves shocking even to them.

Unbeknownst to Lily, her latest "accident" is part of a twisted plot to steal from her eight valuable paintings bequeathed to Lily by her famous grandmother, artist Sarah Elliott. When Lily leaves Hemlock Bay, taking the paintings with her, it doesn't take long for art broker Simon Russo to spot four of the paintings as forgeries. So where are the originals?
That's what Lily and Simon are determined to find out, following clues that will take them from prestigious Washington, D.C. galleries to New York, back to Hemlock Bay, and across the globe to Switzerland, where a notorious collector holds the secret to the missing paintings -- and Lily and Simon's fates -- in his hands. And this time, they're on their own, as Dillon and Lacey are called back into action to catch a killer whose terrifying powers exceed anything the FBI agents have ever encountered anywhere in this world."

So it was great to meet someone from Savich's life. We have met plenty of his friend, but not really his family. I liked Lily, I liked Simon alot. The fact that Savich's friend ends up with his sister.
I love that we have a book in this series that neither one of the main characters were cops. Simon is an ex-cop, but for the duration of this book he's not a cop.
I love who the "bad guys" ended up being. Although I felt bad for Tennyson.
I loved how she wrapped up the Tuttle fiasco. I really thought it was awesome how Lily played into that.
I was fairly pleased with how Coulter grasped depression and Lily's "attempts" at suicide.
The international ploy going on here, I didn't particularly care for...but somebody had to be behind it all.
I liked it, although it hasn't been my favorite to date. I give it a 2 out of 5.

Riptide by Catherine Coulter

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"Becca Matlock thought she had it made when she landed a job as political speechwriter for the campaign to re-elect a popular New York governor. Then the nasty phone calls began, the threats reached a fever pitch, and an innocent person was killed. Now, as a stalker draws nearer, Becca flees for the safety of coastal Maine and the sanctuary of Riptide. But the only thing waiting for her at the seaside estate is a killer fueled by a generation of hate -- and a watery grave."

It's been a while since I read this book so I had to do a little brain digging to remember it. That's what I get for waiting to write the reviews.
This book had a lot of stuff weaving in and out. I liked Becca, I liked Adam alot.
Becca's mom has just died from cancer. She thinks that her dad died a long time ago when actually he was a super secret spy. Adam is part of that spy stuff. It's really cool how it all plays out. I will admit though that the Krimakov thing played out a little weirdish for me.
Tyler was out of left field, That added a whole other  feel to the book, but not in an unpleasant way. Becca was a go-getter. I loved her sense of humor and the way that she and Adam played off each other.
Alot of times you have already figure a book out at least by about the halfway point. BUT, this one I hadn't figured out until late in the book what the heck was going on.
I liked it, I'll give this a 2.75 out of 5