Thank you for starting this thread. Sometimes I'm in the mood for a "Dan Brown" style book -- one that isn't actually by Dan Brown.
I've noticed a lot of indie books in that style.When I first got my Kindle, I bought a couple of them, added a bunch to my wishlist, downloaded a lot of samples. I even created a category/shelf called "Codeian Thrillers" on my Kindle.
But...
But I'm been afraid to read any of them because the reviews are all over the board, with authors accused of bad writing and even worse research. (Although sometimes it's the reviewers who get the facts wrong. One author got a bad review because he had characters speaking Persian instead of Arabic.
) Also, a lot of the thrillers promise to be "controversial," but the controversy often turns out to be "Why didn't the author hire an editor?"
So has anyone else had luck, good or bad, with indie "Codeian" and architectural thrillers? Please help me clean out my wishlist -- it's getting clogged!