Category Archives: Whodunnit
TWO NIGHTS – Kathy Reichs
I am a Tempe Brennan fan, but not to rake up old bones, this is a stand-alone diversion. A fast moving exciting tale for whom, if it was for a debut novelist, I’d be encouragingly optimistic. But Kathy Reichs is … Continue reading
INTO THE WATER – Paula Hawkins
Much expected from the successful author of highly proclaimed THE GIRL on the TRAIN! A small community living on a river bank flanked by a cliff is, and has been, a site for drowning women as far back as … Continue reading
NIGHTHAWK – Clive Cussler & Graham Brown.
As true to the Cussler tradition of high adventure as any of his best. Another one from the NUMA Files; a gripping ride from one dire situation to the next. An American space craft is high-jacked just after re-entry and … Continue reading
DEAD LETTERS – Caite Dolan-Leach
A fairly satisfying mystery, but by no means a thriller, following an electronic and real paper chase amongst a series of multi-hued herrings awash with wine and pills. Summoned home to the news that a fire has destroyed the barn … Continue reading
The THIRST – Harry Hole 11 – Jo Nesbo
Harry Hole has embedded himself solidly into the top of the ranks of detectives; and this offering is no exception. Heart-stoppingly tense, Nesbo not only gives a tight story, his characters are so real, so deep and so subtle that … Continue reading
THE SLEEPWALKER LEGACY – Christopher Hepworth.
An exciting thriller steeped in historical background starting two hundred years ago on a US battleground where British scientist George Napier witnesses a drug-driven massacre and vows to eradicate the drug called Berserker, but his drug company is taken over … Continue reading
DOUBLE TAKE – Kendall Talbot
For me, although this was not an un-put-downable read through which I struggled the first half, but the second half seemed to find its gyro and took off like a rocket. Set in Brisbane, Australia, it is the story of … Continue reading
Top Ten Perps
BOOK POSTMORTEM is about examining the CRIME SCENE left in grime of the Mean Streets and dark alleys by the more skillful of perpetrators; authors who keep us genre addicts glued to the pages. HARRY BINGHAM His Fiona Griffiths series, … Continue reading
BLEED FOR ME – Michael Robotham
(Joseph O’Loughlin #4) My introduction to Michael Robotham was when I reviewed BOMBPROOF awhile back to find it an unexpected delight, but somehow never got back to finding another Robotham to get my teeth into. With a gap in my … Continue reading
