Killing Hour, by Andrew Gross (HarperCollins, RRP $40): Jay Handler has what appears to be a perfect life, with a beautiful wife and children and a successful career. During a romantic dinner with his wife to mark their anniversary, a…
Category: Mysteries & Thrillers
Time-travel romance burrows in
11.22.63, by Stephen King (Hodder, RRP $40): If you could go back in time, would you? If you could change history, fixing what appears to be an incredible wrong, would you? More to the point, should you? English teacher Jake…
Thriller blends engrossing with unsettling
You’re Next, by Gregg Hurwitz (Sphere, RRP $30): Mike Wingate and his family are thrown into mortal danger when a crippled stranger approaches him at a party and utters the words: “I know you, don’t I?” Those five simple words…
Weakest in the series but still a good read
The Calling of the Grave, by Simon Beckett (Bantam Press, RRP $39.99): The fourth novel to feature the haunted and brilliant forensic anthropologist, David Hunter, features a prologue set in the past, when his wife and child were still alive…
Another winner from prolific Patterson
Now You See Her, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Century, RRP $40): I don’t know how James Patterson does it but here he goes with yet another book: one of two published on the same day (the other being…
First book a little too formulaic
Taboo, by Casey Hill (Simon & Schuster, RRP $40): Husband and wife authors Kevin and Melissa Hill have teamed up to produce what is the first in an expected series of thrillers featuring CSI investigator Reilly Steel. There seems to…
Full throttle until the very end
Private Games, by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan (Century, RRP $38): In this latest novel to feature Private International – the world’s most exclusive detective agency – the firm has been hired to provide security for the biggest sporting event…
Another real thriller by the ‘new Stieg Larsson’
The Bomber, by Liza Marklund (Bantam Press, RRP $37): Swedish author Liza Marklund delivers, once again, a fast- paced thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Just days before Christmas, a phonecall…
Nothing ordinary here
Kill Alex Cross, by James Patterson (Century, RRP $38): It will probably be no surprise to anyone out there when I say this latest Alex Cross book is a cracker: James Patterson has an impressive track record and I’m not…
Alternative history delivers
The Spanish Helmet, by Greg Scowen: New Zealand author Greg Scowen has come up with an interesting concept for his conspiracy thriller The Spanish Helmet: what if the officially accepted history of New Zealand is wrong? A mysterious Spanish helmet…