Advantages: It's as good as ever Disadvantages: May not appeal to those who do not like crime and horses.
There was a time that I used to haunt the bookshops as it started to approach the Christmas season. One reason was that there would be a new Dick Francis book to get. Sadly some six years ago this stopped. He announced his retirement. So this weekend I ju ...
Advantages: you know it will be good Disadvantages: might be the last one
During the summer I was browsing in a book shelf when to my amazement I saw a new Dick Francis. As he was supposed to have retired, and I knew he was getting on a bit I checked, and it really was a new book. It was also half price. I gave my husband a n ...
Advantages: Suspense, action and a good plot. Disadvantages: None
A young four-year-old boy is dropped off by his father at an unfamiliar school playground one morning and told to go and play for a while and his father will return to pick him up. As morning turns to afternoon, the boy realises that he has been abandoned ...
Advantages: Interesting premise with unseen twists, warm characters with depth, easy to read, gripping Disadvantages: Ending perhaps not the strongest
I don't recall having read a Hurwitz novel, or having heard of him, before, but I was intrigued by the blurb and quotes on the cover. As a crime thriller lover, I seem to know what I like quite well now so I can be a little fussier than I used to be (for ...
Advantages: Interesting plot with good twists and a great main character Disadvantages: None
After finishing the Harlan Coben book, I felt like reading another crime fiction, so I decided to start reading this one because it was again another book my husband had already read and had said was good. I had not previously read anything by this author ...
