The Serpent's Kiss

This is one terrific thriller! Sullivan, known more for his "macho pursuit" thrillers like "Labyrinth" tears into the detective genre with outstanding gusto! Seamus Moynihan is a perfect hero, flawed but persistent, and very human. The murders are unbelivably gruesome, and it's a nail biting read from start to finish. Since other reviewers have outlined the plot, what more can I say? It has some incredible suspense scenes... Read Full Review

THE SERPENT'S KISS hits you like a freight train from page one! All you want to do is read this book every minute you can once you encounter the horrific death scene tht homicide detective Semus Moynihan takes in where a naked man has been bitten three times by a deadly snake. This well crafted tale takes you in to the kinky world of erotic and twisted sex, black market herpetology, cults and a Biblical mystery that is a... Read Full Review

There are two points, I think, during THE SERPENT'S KISS where it is immediately obvious that Mark T. Sullivan has developed into one of our best contemporary writers. The first is a fairly sedate moment, a little over one-third of the way through the book, and involves a fairly sedate episode --- an account of a dinner (a date, actually, though they don't really call it that) between San Diego homicide detective Seamus Moynihan... Read Full Review