I enjoy a good old-fashioned murder mystery and this book certainly delivers plenty of murder and mystery. This is the third book to feature CSI Darby McCormick, a ballsy woman law enforcement officer who gets things done. Don’t be put off if you haven’t read the earlier books: I was a Darby McCormick newbie but […]
■ REVIEW: The Dead Room
Murder mystery that delivers Read Post »
Here’s a book that will grab you by the throat from the very first page and keep your attention to the end. It kicks off with a massacre in a small Sussex village on a cold January morning. The almost painfully tense story of the trail of death and destruction left after the shooting rampage
■ REVIEW: Skin and Bones
Uncomfortably real thriller Read Post »
This is the second book in the Grace Descanso series. Unlike so many other sequels, instead of taking place a comfortable month or two down the track, this one opens the very day after the last book (the compellingly nasty The Timer Game) finished. After coming to terms with the return of her daughter’s father,
■ REVIEW: Out At Night
Gripping sequel Read Post »
Now here’s what I like to see: a psychological thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat in anticipation. Nicci French is actually the pseudonym of Brit husband-and-wife thriller-writing team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French and I have to say, I suspect theirs is an interesting relationship, with them both having such dark
■ REVIEW: Complicit
Edge-of-the-seat stuff Read Post »
This is the one I’d been not-so-patiently waiting for: an epic offering from the king of epic offerings, Stephen King. It’s a monster of a book, with close to 900 addictive pages in a weighty book that bears the label: his finest epic since The Stand. I’m always a little dubious when I read statements
■ REVIEW: Under the Dome
Perfect, epic offering from Stephen King Read Post »
James Patterson has produced another page-turner with this latest book in the Alex Cross series. However, don’t be put off if you haven’t read any of the earlier Cross books because, like all of Patterson’s books, it’s an easy read that works perfectly well as a stand-alone story. The story is actually a story within
■ REVIEW: Alex Cross's Trial
Compelling reading from Patterson Read Post »
I really wanted to love this book but, sadly, it just didn’t do it for me. Promoted as the world’s first digi-novel, Level 26: Dark Origins is the first novel from the bloke who came up with the CSI stable of TV programmes, Anthony E Zuiker. The title comes from the premise that those who
■ REVIEW: Level 26: Dark Origins
Digi-novel fell short of expectations Read Post »
This is the latest in the series of thrillers written by Karen Rose and featuring the immensely screwed up family of District Attorney Susannah Vartanian. If you haven’t read the earlier books, don’t let that put you off. I was a newbie to the series but didn’t have a problem getting into the story. Susannah
■ REVIEW: Kill for Me
Not great but good enough Read Post »
This book kicks straight into the action with a drive-by shooting at a service station happening in the first chapter and right under the nose of main character, Detective Ty Hauck. What follows is a roller-coaster ride of chaos and violence that slowly reveals a level of corruption that surprises and saddens Hauck. His own
■ REVIEW: Don't Look Twice
Almost addictive writing Read Post »
Two little boys are abducted from the streets of Glasgow and it seems that’s not all they have in common. They are also both children who have been neglected by those who should be caring for them, they almost seem unwanted. But there’s something else they also have in common. Something that Detective Inspector Colin
■ REVIEW: Singing to the Dead
Story will keep you guessing Read Post »
