Advantages: A light-hearted, quick read Disadvantages: Weak plot, annoying main character
...Once again, journalist and amateur detective Jim Qwilleran (that's not a typo) is flung into the depths of a murder investigation, when a rather unsavoury character dies. The dead man, a jewellery dealer, has been attempting to scam the wealth jewellery o ...
Advantages: A very interesing and gripping read Disadvantages: sometimes longwinded and unneccisarily complex
This story was right from the beggining a gripping read. The reader feels pulled in and absorbed by the story from the first page onwards. It is set out and constructed well by John Farrow to the point where one begins to feel that it is real.
A very eng ...
Advantages: Very readable Disadvantages: Main character wasn't entirely believable
London is being bombed on a regular basis in autumn 1940 - something undertaker Francis Hancock finds intolerable, having spent much of the First World War in the trenches. Terrified of bomb shelters or anything underground, he prefers to go running while ...
Advantages: Easy reading with suspance Disadvantages: Not for all
...New York, Manhattan: Late at night, the rain mixed with sleet falls copious, swept by a cold wind coming from the east, a well-dressed woman in his sixties is hidden in the shadows, in the lobby of a building, a gun in the pocket of hes raincoat, she's wa ...
Advantages: The descriptions and characters make very good reading Disadvantages: I didn't find any disadvantages
After reading and enjoying 'The Dark House' by Deborah Crombie I decided to read another of her Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Series. 'Water Like a Stone' grabbed my attention for two reasons, firstly the title comes from my favourite carol, In the Dee ...
