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The Shoe Man

Advantages: Excellent story full of suspense and mystery
Disadvantages: Too many chapters

Synopsis of the book: A woman is brutally raped in a Hotel in Brighton on New Years Eve. And despite her ordeal she has the courage to give the Police detailed information to what she was subjected too. The key being her expensive designers shoes. T ...

CPTDANIELS 13.01.2013 · Read full review
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Review of Dead Like You - Peter James

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What happened to Sandy....grrrr

Advantages: Great storyline
Disadvantages: What happened to Sandy???

The Author Peter James is a very successful man. Not only has he been a published author since 1981, he has also had a career in television and film. He worked in film and TV between 1970 and 1978 with a large proportion of that running a joint pro ...

KathEv 07.06.2010 · Read full review
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Shoe fetishes and missing wives

Advantages: Fast-paced, intriguing side story
Disadvantages: Main story could have been better

Brighton is faced with a serial rapist who appears to have a fetish for shoes - after the rape, he removes the woman's shoes and takes them with him. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is immediately reminded of a previous unsolved case that he was involv ...

sunmeilan 09.09.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Dead Like You - Peter James

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Don't believe anything until it's officially denied

Advantages: Clancy on the ball again
Disadvantages: Too much Grant Blackwood here

Between 2000 and 2010 the world's most successful fiction thriller author wrote just one book, 'The Teeth of the Tiger', a limp War on Terror thriller/film script that was there only to enable Tom Clancy to keep alive his Jack Ryan series and recognise th ...

thedevilinme 14.05.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Dead or Alive - Tom Clancy

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Dark Angel

Advantages: Great story well written
Disadvantages: Too much chance and luck involved in plot

Background: This is the second Geoffrey Archer novel I have read, the previous one being Shadow Hunter. Having now learnt the difference between Geoffrey Archer and Lord Jeffrey Archer the former Politian and writer. I saw this in my local bookshop and ...

CPTDANIELS 04.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Dark Angel - Geoffrey Archer

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