Annette J. Dunlea's Blog, page 653

My Favourite Simon Kenrick Book 2 – Target

Title: Target
 
Author:  Simon Kernick
Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Corgi Books (5 Nov 2009)
ISBN-10: 0552156612
ISBN-13: 978-0552156615
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3.4 cm
Product Description
One hot date. When writer Rob Fallon goes out one night and ends up with his best-friend's girlfriend, Jenny, he's feeling guilty before anything's even happened. One brutal abduction. But guilt quickly turns to [...:]

My Favourite Simon Kernick Book 1 – The Last 10 Seconds

Title: The Last 10 Seconds
Author:  Simon Kernick
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Bantam Press (21 Jan 2010)
ISBN-10: 0593062868
ISBN-13: 978-0593062869
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.2 x 3.8 cm
Product Description
The Undercover Cop – Having worked undercover the last ten years, Sean Egan is used to life on the edge. He's recently infiltrated one of London's most dangerous criminal gangs, and they've [...:]

My Book Recommendation: Percy Jackson And The Last Olympian

Title: Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian
 
Author:  Rick Riordan
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Puffin (4 Mar 2010)
ISBN-10: 0141321288
ISBN-13: 978-0141321288
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3 cm

Product Description
Most people get presents on their sixteenth birthday. I get a prophecy that could save or destroy the world. That's how it is when you're the son of Poseidon, God [...:]

My Favourite Book 2 by John Le Carre – Call for the Dead

Title: Call for the Dead
 
Author:John le Carré
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Sceptre (14 May 2009)
ISBN-10: 0340993723
ISBN-13: 978-0340993729
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
Product Description
It was less an interview than an amiable conversation over a walk in the park. George Smiley had been sent to speak to a high-ranking civil servant after an anonymous tip-off that [...:]

My John Le Carre Book 1 – John Le Carre Set

 
Title: John Le Carre Set: The Russian House, A Perfect Spy
 
Author:  John Le Carre
Paperback
Published: 1990
Language English
About the Author
John le Carre was born in 1931. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a wide reputation which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable [...:]

My Book Recommendation – One Day

Title: One Day
 
Author:  David Nicholls
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks (4 Feb 2010)
ISBN-10: 0340896981
ISBN-13: 978-0340896983
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3.6 cm 
Product Description

'I can imagine you at forty,' she said, a hint of malice in her voice. 'I can picture it right now.'
He smiled without opening his eyes. 'Go on then.'
15th July 1988. Emma and [...:]

My Favourite John Connolly Book 2 – The Lovers

Title: The Lovers
 
Author:  John Connolly
Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks (21 Jan 2010)
ISBN-10: 1444704672
ISBN-13: 978-1444704679
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 3.2 cm
Product Description
When Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, a NYPD cop, killed a young couple, a boy and a girl barely older than his son, then took his own life. There was [...:]

My Favourite John Connolly Book 1 – The Whisperers

Title: The Whisperers
Author:  John Connolly
Hardcover: 544 pages
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (13 May 2010)
ISBN-10: 0340993502
ISBN-13: 978-0340993507 
Product Description
Charlie Parker returns in the chilling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LOVERS.
The border between Maine and Canada is porous. Anything can be smuggled across it: drugs, cash, weapons, people.
Now a group of disenchanted former soldiers [...:]

My Book Recommendation : Living With Evil

Title: Living with Evil
 
Author:  Cynthia Owen
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland (4 Jan 2010)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0755319087
ISBN-13: 978-0755319084
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm
Product Description
Cynthia Owen grew up in Ireland, went to the local convent school, said her prayers and took her first communion with all the other girls in her class. But behind [...:]

Lit Blog Of The Week – The Reading Experience

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March 01, 2010
Sorrentino ReviewMy review for The Quarterly Conversation of Gilbert Sorrentino's posthumously published The Abyss of Human Illusion is now available in the new issue, number 19. As usual, lots of other good stuff there too.
February 22, 2010
What's Going On?It is not really surprising that crime fiction would be a genre appealing to otherwise [...:]