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Advantages: Gripping storyline, great characters
Disadvantages: none

Plot For Rose Gardner, working at the DMV on a Friday afternoon is bad even before she sees a vision of herself dead. She’s had plenty of visions, usually boring ones like someone’s toilet’s overflowed, but she’s never seen one of herself before. When her ...

reasinfield 05.08.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Twenty Eight Wishes - Denise Grover Swank

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Meet the Godparents

Advantages: Part of the genre's heritage; atmospheric writing
Disadvantages: Slow by today's standards; seems dated now

...Scandinavian Sleuths While Scandinavian crime fiction has been popular with British readers since the late 1980s, it was the huge success of Stieg Larsson’s trilogy that started with ‘The Girl that Kicked the Hornet’s Nest’ that really brought the ...

fizzytom 20.04.2013 · Read full review
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Review of The Martin Beck Series: Roseanna - Per Wahlöö, Maj Sjöwall

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The Istanbul Variations

Advantages: A good read
Disadvantages: none

...This is written very well and is on par with other authors who write about the “Cold War” such as Philip Kerr and Alan Furst. It begins with the introduction of the character Peter Husak in the year 1968 when he was a student that finds himself ca ...

ruth1957 10.05.2010 · Read full review
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Review of The Istanbul Variations - Olen Steinhauer

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The Witch Maker

Advantages: Good story with interesting support characters
Disadvantages: Lack of firm evidence

...Last week I went to the local Car Boot sale, and what an Aladdin's cave it was. They sold everything including to my delight lots of good quality books. In the end I bought this book for just 30p. I liked the sound of it from the title but ...

CPTDANIELS 29.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Witch Maker - Sally Spencer

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Darren Shan trials of death incredible action packed book.

Advantages: very good book. action packed. many unexpected events
Disadvantages: none

...what to say about this book? I believe Darren Shan's book: Trials Of Death is a very good book. When i started reading this fantastic book i could not stop i was hooked! I even remember when i was reading this book i stayed awake till 4:24 AM! Chapt ...

david1998 22.12.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Trials of Death - Darren Shan

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