The internet is an easy place to hide, to lie and to be completely absorbed by. It can be a place where you trust someone so completely that you can hand over your life to a complete stranger. Lottie Moggach tackles these disturbing realities in her unique and utterly compelling debut novel, Kiss Me First. […]
■ REVIEW: Kiss Me First
Riveting morality study Read Post »
A little girl finds a stray dog with a note attached to its collar: “HELP US”. She passes the dog on the a vagrant – known as the Walking Man – in the hopes he will be able to find its family. Oliver and Matilda Anchor-Ferrers, along with their daughter Lucia, and their dog, Bear, are
■ REVIEW: Wolf
Sinister story cranks up the terror Read Post »
Every morning, Rachel catches the same train to the same destination, to her same job, and passes the same houses on her journey. And every morning that train stops at the same signal, overlooking a row of houses and their back gardens. Rachel has started to imagine the lives of the people she sees on
■ REVIEW: The Girl on the Train
A good read, if you ignore the annoyances Read Post »
While Cross My Heart, the previous book in the Alex Cross crime series, was a wee bit disappointing, this latest offering (Hope to Die) manages to pull things back on track a little. Lawyer-turned-detective Alex Cross is being stalked and things seem hopeless when his entire family is taken by a psychotic genius. It’s not
■ REVIEW: Hope to Die
Patterson gets Alex Cross back on track Read Post »
In this new Temperance “Tempe” Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist and No 1 best-selling author Kathy Reichs, it appears that the blood-thirsty killer who escaped justice in 2004’s Monday Mourning is back. Anique Pomerleau kidnapped and murdered a string of girls in Canada but she managed to get away, eluding the cops and disappearing,
■ REVIEW: Bones Never Lie
Old adversary returns in latest Bones book Read Post »
If you are in any way squeamish, you might just struggle to get past the first few pages of this gruesome but compelling thriller by French author Pierre Lemaitre. However, it’s worth the effort and if you make it past those first awful moments, you’ll be rewarded with a book that keeps the adrenalin flowing
■ REVIEW: Alex
Gruesome but worth the effort Read Post »
This is a New Zealand environmental thriller with a message or two. Set in the Waikato, Sam Miro is a young, highly regarded researcher working on environment monitoring. When some of his study farms start to show odd results, further investigation uncovers sinister forces at work. Someone has deliberately created an environmental disaster in order
■ REVIEW: Unearthed
Kiwi angle helps lift tone of novel Read Post »
For the James Bond fans out there, the news that William Boyd was planning to pen a followup Bond novel was probably pretty exciting and, for the most part, he has delivered something that stacks up quite favourably against Ian Fleming’s original books. This story takes place in 1969 and, while it spans three continents,
■ REVIEW: Solo
Plot a little out there at times – but it’s Bond Read Post »
As is probably obvious from this blog, I read a lot, and a lot of the books I read are crime novels. It seems like Ruth Rendell has been around forever, and given the fact that her first book (From Doon With Death, the first book in the Inspector Wexford series) was published two years
■ REVIEW: The Girl Next Door
Surprisingly fresh murder mystery Read Post »
In the final thriller in the Mak Vanderwall series by former model Tara Moss, the focus is on revenge and survival. When ex-model turned private investigator and forensic psychologist Mak Vanderwall goes missing in Paris she is presumed dead. A hit man had been hired to do her in, after all, so there’s little reason
■ REVIEW: Assassin
Heroine out for revenge in edge-of-seat series finale Read Post »
