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Strange Killing!!

Advantages: Some good initial ideas and concepts
Disadvantages: Went down hill the longer to went on

Synopsis of the book: Teenager Rob Beresford arrives home late one night covered in blood. All he will tell his mother Clara is that she must call the Police, he is not hurt and that he has killed a man down by the canal. She agrees to do this an ...

CPTDANIELS 04.01.2013 · Read full review
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Review of Killing a Stranger - Jane Adams

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The legacy of abuse

Advantages: A brilliantly exciting read, likeable characters
Disadvantages: The subject matter will leave you with a nasty taste in your mouth, the final few pages

...The recent instances of sexual abuse by Catholic priests has been thrust into the limelight in Philip Carlo’s Predators & Prayers, whether the Vatican likes it or not. Notorious at protecting their own, I can imagine a few raised eyebrows among the Cathol ...

chrisandmark_is_here 14.12.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Predators & Prayers - Philip Carlo

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Licenced to Kill!

Advantages: Enjoyable nonsense
Disadvantages: These books are terribly dated

The James Bond Collection contains the fourteen books written by bounder, seducer and caddish bon vivant Ian Fleming between 1953 and 1966. You get spiffy new retro covers and a big sturdy Bond Girl embossed cardboard box to store them. Born in London o ...

Jake_Speed 24.11.2011 · Read full review
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Review of James Bond 007 Centennary Collection - Ian Fleming

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Contrasting experiences and lives.

Advantages: Fascinating thought proving read
Disadvantages: Author gave too much away in the summary

Background: A few weeks ago I read my first novel by Sarah Diamond ‘Cold Town’ which I thought was very good. So I was keen to try another slice of her suspense novels, this time more sensibly I picked her debut book entitled ‘The Beach Road’, wh ...

CPTDANIELS 16.10.2010 · Read full review
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Review of The Beach Road - Sarah Diamond

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Sniffing out the Drug Gangs

Advantages: fascinating well crafted story
Disadvantages: Quick ending

Background: This was another ‘find’ at my local car boot sale recently. Quite unusually it was a hardback version, which I do prefer but rarely buy new because of the extra cost. However on this occasion the price of 50p was well within my budget. ...

CPTDANIELS 05.06.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Big City Jacks - Nick Oldham

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