Advantages: Bags of suspense, part of a series that leaves you wanting more! Disadvantages: Lack of sleep due to reading it!
...to read this book about 3 years ago and, as a university student in halls, I daren't continue because if I had I'd have never gone outside again! Not to mention the fact that I was off to North Carolina for a year as part of my degree! I'll expl ...
...‘Black Mountain, North Carolina is a sleepy little town where the local police deal with one homicide a year if they’re unlucky, and where people are still getting used to the idea of locking their doors at night.’
This doesn’t sound like the most inte ...
Advantages: Several continuing issues come to the surface Disadvantages: You won't get any sleep if you start this one - you'll have to finish it
The 5th in the Scarpetta series. There is a murder of a young girl that brings Kay, Marino, and Benton to western North Carolina. The murder is suspiciously like the murders committed by a serial killer they have been tracking for years. Now Lucy is ab ...
Advantages: Well explained use of mind bending techniques Disadvantages: Not as believeable as his other titles
Robin Cook - "Master of the medical Thriller".
When this book turned up as a notorious editors choice from my partners bookclub it was too late to return it so I took it off his hands. I have been hooked on Robin Cook ever since and have been converted ...
Advantages: A change from her other novels, good if you like a little history when you read and are looking for unusual names for your new baby! Disadvantages: Hard names, confusing story, hard to get into and doesn't feel like a Christie without Miss Marple!
This was quite an early Christie, and doesn't feature the mild Miss Marple or Perfect Poirot. Instead it is a crime novel based in 2000 BC, in Eygpt. And so it's a sort of History/Crime/Novel all in one, which is fine if you like that sort of thing. But I ...
