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Advantages: A good introduction
Disadvantages: A little mild for Herbert

...and gore, but brilliant just the same. This is story that shows you sometimes the most beautiful things can also be the most terrifying. When moving to a beautiful run down cottage in the country in order to escape the hussle and bussle of city life, Midge and Mike thought they had found their haven, Wild animals on the door step, love and creativity. But in true Herbert style things aren't as they seem, the neighbours are a little strange to ... Read review

Advantages: tense, very tense
Disadvantages: none-cracking debut thriller

EVERY DEAD THING is the stunningly brilliant debut novel from best-selling writer, JOHN CONNOLLY. Every so often, a first novel will come along that blows you away and leaves you breathless; gasping for more. EVERY DEAD THING is just such a thriller and the book that first introduces us to Charlie "Bird" Parker and his two loyal companions-in-arms, Angel and Louis. Parker is a cop with a troubled family life; his father was a murderer and Parker ...
...is rapidly descending into a series of countless arguments. After one paticular night on the booze, he returns home to find his wife and daughter not just murdered but arranged in a gruesome display for him to find. At first, briefly, Parker is considered a suspect but when he is soon cleared, he sets off on a quest for justice; determined to find the killer responsible for destroying his life. It is a journey that takes him across the boundaries ... Read review

Advantages: Keeps you guessing till the end
Disadvantages: none

...ill over Xmas it was the perfect tonic and excuse to stay in bed. A book well worth reading with the usual brilliance expected from the author. The beginning of the story has so many possibilities that you are kept guessing as to what could be occurring within Crickley Hall to cause the weirdness. There is a vast array of characters and depending upon your view of life it will be a personal choice as to whom the lead character within the novel ... Read review