Advantages: Great story and characters Disadvantages: May seem a bit missing if read previous Jack Caffery books
I was lucky enough to win a competition to receive all of Mo Hayder's books a couple of years ago and had really enjoyed them, so when I saw this new book in paperback in Smiths I had to buy it.
The Blurb
Nine Feet under water in Bristol harbour, a ...
Advantages: A great story, with believable characters.... Disadvantages: You can't put it down...
Ritual A police diver discovers a severed human hand in Bristol's floating harbour. Shortly afterwards, another hand -- from the same victim -- is found buried underneath a restaurant. The severed hands are those of a young heroin addict who has recen ...
Advantages: Of its time, insights into the studio system, decent plots Disadvantages: Probably not for the general crime reader
I've recently been discovering the original works of Raymond Chandler which, like many people, I'd only really known from the Hollywood renditions. A natural, if backwards, progression from there was clearly to the writer that Chandler called the ace perf ...
Advantages: Loveable rogues Disadvantages: sometimes hard going
...I picked this book up around a month ago, and it was my first experience of Hornung's writing. The main characters, affectionately known as Raffles and Bunny, were well introduced and their individual backgrounds unravelled nicely as the story took its c ...
Advantages: Good plot with plenty of suprises, technical knowledge Disadvantages: Poor and predictable characters
Chloe Larson is a young woman studying for her final law exams in New York City when she is brutally raped by a man who seemingly knows everything about her life from where she spends each evening down to her favourite perfume. Twelve years later she is k ...
