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THE ANGRY SEA – James Deegan
(John Carr #2) This is a snappy thriller of great pace. One of those technically baffling military novels in the style of Andy McNab and Chris Ryan, and equally as riveting. James Deegan is another who had been there, done … Continue reading
SMOKE & MIRRORS – Angus McLean
Ex-SAS soldier, Craig Archer, in the employ of The Service, starts pursuing links to international terrorism across the world after a planned snatch goes wrong. Soon, he finds he can trust nobody when it becomes evident that the British, the … Continue reading
ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL – Sarah Vaughan
A court drama with twists. A politician, a close friend of the British Prime Minister, is standing trial for the rape of his mistress. We see the chief characters mainly through the eyes of the female judge whose detachment grows … Continue reading
TATE DRAWDY – Michael Ludden
A REVIEW BY JIM NESBITT BLUE PLATE SPECIAL: LEAN AND MEAN MAYHEM WITH WISECRACKS Like a tasty meat-and-three plate at a Southern diner, there’s something simple and satisfying that sticks to the reader’s ribs in the straight-up way author Michael … Continue reading
BLONDE ICE – R.G. Belsky
A JIM NESBITT REVIEW. Dick Belsky’s Blonde Ice is a classic, fast-paced thriller that serves up it’s sex-laced mayhem straight up and strong, like a double-shot of bourbon, easing the burn with wry humor and wisecracks from the story’s narrator … Continue reading
THE BOOK OF MIRRORS – E.O.Chirovici
Truth is in the eyes of the beholders. For every sliver of a broken mirror there is a slightly different reality. The unsolved murder of psychologist Professor Joseph Wieber in Princeton in 1987 resurfaces when literary agent Peter Katz receives … Continue reading
NEVER GO ALONE – Denison Hatch
Denison Hatch has done it again. The second in the Jake Rivett Series is as riveting as the first. As breathtaking, as heart-hammering and as page-turning, but there is also the skein of a love story threaded into the fabric … Continue reading
TEN DAYS – Gillian Slovo
A novel of monumental quality; exploring the depths of human political greed and ambition, and the results of small misjudgements which lead to life-changing disasters. The ripple effects go far beyond the thrones of power to lap on the shores … Continue reading
The JACK CALLUM Detective Trilogy – Maynard Sims
The wonderful thing about trilogies, when you have thoroughly loved the first one, there are more to come. And with this one, two more could never be enough! I felt rather lost when, in quick succession, I finished the third. … Continue reading
The Mystery of the THREE ORCHIDS – Augusto de Angelis
If you are looking for a quaint whodunit in the Christie fireside style, the father of Italian crime writing, as he is sometimes known, Augusto De Angelis, will be right up your street. The Mystery of the Three Orchids is … Continue reading
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