Iron Crowned, by Richelle Mead (Bantam Press, RRP $40): Best-selling author Richelle Mead has made her name writing the Vampire Academy novels but this novel is the first in a different series, still in the fantasy realm but minus the…
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Nordic authors come in from the cold
There seems to be a bit of a trend for kick-ass Scandinavian thrillers of late. Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy has pushed the Nordic murder-mystery genre into the spotlight and those books have made a whole lot of readers sit up…
Goddard back to best
Blood Count, by Robert Goddard (Bantam Press, RRP $40): Author Robert Goddard has been criticised in the past for being a little formulaic with his plot development, but he is back to his best with this latest novel in his…
Patterson’s praise well deserved
Red Wolf, by Liza Marklund (Bantam Press, RRP $40): James Patterson and Harlan Coben are two of my favourite authors in the murder/thriller/ mystery/general mayhem genre, so when they have good things to say about another author, I take notice.…
Reacher at his bone-crunching best
Worth Dying For, by Lee Child (Bantam Press, RRP $39.99): Jack Reacher is back and better than ever. Were you one of the Reacher fans who complained that the last novel didn’t have a high enough body count? I wasn’t…
Kiwis love Reacher
61 Hours, by Lee Child (Bantam Press, RRP $39.99): Benjamin Franklin reckoned there were only two things in this world that could be said to be certain: death and taxes. However, I’d like to add a third item to that…