Category Archives: Book Reviews
INTO THE FIRE – Gregg Hurwitz
Orphan X #5. I can’t praise this series highly enough, and INTO THE FIRE is as good as any of the previous. As usual, the message – and phone number – of someone who is dedicated to give 100%, including … Continue reading
WHEN YOU SEE ME – Lisa Gardner
An excellent read. Although a follow on from the gripper where the serial killer Jacob Ness dies, Flora Dane cannot let his evil legacy go. There are still too many bodies out there; families who still search in hope that … Continue reading
Tom Clancy’s CODE OF HONOUR – Marc Cameron
A tip top yarn to prove that Marc Cameron has really filled the boots of Tom Clancy and his President Jack Ryan cast of characters. I seriously feared for the floundering of this series through a lack of maintenance by … Continue reading
IF YOU WANT TO MAKE GOD LAUGH – Bianca Marais
The well-told story concerns how two sisters in early old-age finally manage to understand each other, to forgive, and to love. South Africa on the cusp of a new beginning as Nelson Mandela moves from prison to President. Brilliant. Poignant. … Continue reading
TOM CLANCY’s ENEMY CONTACT –– Mike Maden
(Jack Ryan Universe #27) An intricate, suspense-building sequence of events is laid out; a series of disastrous incidents indicating evidence of a massive security breach in the world’s most secure firewall ever designed. The whole of the US security is … Continue reading
THE WAREHOUSE – Rob Hart
As an entertaining read, this thriller is a success, with splendid characterisation, mounting tension and fear of a seemingly disastrous outcome. Set in a near-future USA where the corporate giants have gobbled up the entire existences of most of the … Continue reading
SECRET SERVICE – Tom Bradby
Surely the best spy novel I have read in years. How can Kate Henderson take the intel seriously that the British Prime Minister has cancer, and that one of the contenders to replace him has Russian connections? And that there … Continue reading
BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT- Gary Bell QC & Scott Kershaw
A huge, involved fraud case suggests that Elliot Rook, QC, a barrister with Miller & Stubbs, needs some help as he gets further and further mired down in the paperwork, Sheer audacity gets young, hungry, mixed-race Zara Barnes the job. … Continue reading
UNDER THE ICE – Rachael Blok
Jenny is a new mother; exhausted, tearful, brittle. She finds herself sleep-walking, barefooted in the snow, down to the nearby lake which seems to have a hold on her. Her visions include shadowy figures and threatening whispers. Inexplicably, barely remembered … Continue reading
WINTER SISTERS – Robin Oliveira
Mary Sutter #2. When the 1879 blizzard that devastates Albany, New York, finally releases its killer grip, close family friends, husband and wife, of Dr Mary Sutter and her physician husband, have both lost their lives. But more troubling is … Continue reading
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