My Review (4 stars out of 5) Failed songwriter Steve Witowski needs somewhere to hide. On the run from the police, he stumbles upon a woman being attacked and soon finds himself hailed as a hero. The victim, Victoria, invites him to stay with her in a haunted church where Steve becomes embroiled in a…
‘The Rosie Project’ by Graeme Simsion
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Thirty-nine-year-old geneticist Don Tillman doesn’t know that love isn’t an exact science, but his lack of success in the world of romance prompts him to embark on a project for find the perfect partner. Creating a questionnaire he believes will do the job for him, he finds the…
‘Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage’ by Alfred Lansing
My Review (5 stars out of 5) In 1915 arctic explorer Ernest Shackleton recruited 27 men and set sail for the ice-bound Antarctic seas in a bid to cross Antarctica via the pole. But their ship became wedged in the ice and Shackleton was faced with keeping his men alive until they could be rescued.…
‘The Quarry’ by Iain Banks
My Review (5 stars out of 5) In The Quarry Iain Banks puts a group of old university pals in a house for a reunion and lets them loose with their memories, problems, irritations and frustrations. The owner of the house is dying, and with his son Kit (who has the hots for one of…
‘Kalahari Passage’ by Candi Miller
My Review (5 stars out of 5) This is the follow up to book one, Salt and Honey, which saw the young lovers Koba and Mannie separated and thrown in jail. Mannie takes the chance of parole to abscond in the hope of finding Koba, but she is already in the process of being taken…
‘The Great Train Robbery’ by Nick Russell-Pavier and Stewart Richards
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Shortly after 3am on the 8th of August 1963 near Cheddington in Buckinghamshire, a gang of villains stole £2.6 million from the Glasgow to London mail train in a daring robbery. The names of some members of the gang have become synonymous with the legend that has grown…
‘A Litter of Bones’ by JD Kirk
My Review (5 stars out of 5) The memory of catching child-killer ‘Mister Whisper’ comes back to haunt DCI Jack Logan when another child goes missing. But with the original perpetrator locked up years earlier, this must be a copycat. Trouble is, some of the details relating to the case are scarily familiar and Logan…
‘A Sparrow Falls’ by Vicki Olsen
My Review (4 stars out of 5) Set in a changing America, the story centres on Sarah, who is haunted by a difficult upbringing. Growing up in the rural town of Tolerance, Arkansas, and having endured a traumatic childhood, she now struggles to alter the course of her life and overcome the traumas of the…
‘The Secret Sauce’ by MJ Porter
My Review (5 stars out of 5) A suspicious death at the BB Sauce factory prompts Chief Inspector Mason to start an investigation. Along with his female sergeant, O’Rourke, Mason must work out what caused the death of factory worker Harry Armstrong. Found in a vat of the secret BB sauce, did the man commit…
‘The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place’ by Kate Summerscale
My Review (5 stars out of 5) (Audiobook) When the bodies of three young women are discovered by a tenant in the walls of 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, the police start an investigation and soon focus their attention on one of the former tenants, John Reginald Halliday Christie. But the investigation also sheds new…
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