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The Lullaby Girl by Loreth Anne White. A good solid ☆☆☆☆ read. My review https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...Or https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Dying Day: Absolutely gripping serial killer fiction by Stephen Edger, last night. My review https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...Or https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have just finished Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conradhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
Review....I did not find this an easy book to get into, but once there the writing is hugely impressive. The story is about a sailor, or pirate depending on your viewpoint, named Marlow recounting the story of his job transporting ivory in the Congo and how what a fellow dealer Kurtz, along with other European traders in ivory, have done to the natives. It's a disturbing and dark book in places. Four Stars
Crime and Punishment... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...I read this when I was about thirty years of age, still playing rugby, full of myself and without a care in the world. This book was a shock. I'd never given a thought to poverty, to the barrenness of ambition and the austerity of others I'd not witnessed. Yes, I was rich in many things but not in the awareness of deprivation. The reading was a moral awakening.
Raskolnikov is pasted inside my mind as is his argument that some have a right to perform murder.
About Me
So far in my life, I have been a London police officer, a tenant of three public houses and a London taxi driver. I have also been arrested for attempted murder.
I mainly write stories involving the intelligence services of the UK and with that in mind, The Desolate Garden was my first novel. Within two months of its publication, it was a paid option to become a $30 million film. That book and more of my work can be found here-- http://mybook.to/DesolateGarden
I write most of the time that I have and read what I can. I would imagine that at the age of sixty-eight this will be my final vocational calling and if so then I'm privileged to have found it.
I have finished with The Firm by John Grisham. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
I guess the lesson to learn is read the small print...very carefully! A well-balanced novel, easy to read and digest.
Daniel wrote: "Crime and Punishment... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...I read this when I was about thirty years of age, still playing rugby, full of myself an..." My Thanksgiving reading. Your book. Not C & P.
Just finished
The Hanged Man by Simon Kernick. My review https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... or
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Maureen wrote: "Daniel wrote: "Crime and Punishment... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...I read this when I was about thirty years of age, still playing rugby, fu..."
Maureen wrote: "Daniel wrote: "Crime and Punishment... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
I read this when I was about thirty years of age, still playing rugby, fu..."
Maureen wrote: "Daniel wrote: "Crime and Punishment... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
I read this when I was about thirty years of age, still playing rugby, fu..."
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The House on Foster Hill by Jaime Jo Wright yesterday. My review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... or
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by Vikki Wakefield is an excellent ya mystery set in a small rural Australian town.review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read One of Us Is Lying
by Karen M. McManus. It was great! https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Gave this book five stars.
Something for everybody, from mysteries to science, fiction to sports. The Best American Series 2017: 16 Short Stories & Essays has two full articles or stories from the volumes they publish of each genre. Great stuff, and still on NetGalley.
5★ Link to my link review
Another new author and new series for me to follow.
Dying Breath by Helen Phifer is suspenseful and chilling. My spoiler free review can be found at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... or
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Just finished
Her Best Friend by Sarah Wray 4.5☆ A slow burning read that draws you in ... my no spoiler review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... or
https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
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Thank you to Net Galley, Bookouture and Angela Marsons for an ARC copy for an honest review.
So firstly let me honestly say although a four star book, this is the weakest book in all the series.
Lots of the previous books I have read and given the books a clear four of five stars.
Angela saves this book with a great last third part.
Yes, so why still four star ?
The excitement of the last part, the splitting of the team giving DS Kevin Dawson and DC Stacey partnered on a different assignment, a great teaming of Kevin and Stacey.
The love of the inter-actions and dialogue between Bryant and Kim, Bryant is a perfect character against Kim wild, outspoken and tough character.
On the same night that an abandoned baby shows up on the steps of the police precinct, a young prostitute is found murdered!
The weakness was the first part of the book, a little slow to build up, a lot of characters, sometimes a little confusing.
Sub plots include a serial killer knocking off prostitutes, human profiteering, an abandoned baby, and yet another murder, really two stories which I found hard to keep the tensions and pace in both plots.
Yes a gritty story and Angela never shy's away from some tough and serious stories, I do admire for this and you just cannot dislike Kim Stone.
Just needed more real tension and gripping pace and action.
Saying that I will always read a new Angela Marsons book
If you like cosy mysteries this was quite good. It revolves around a murder in a small town library and a librarian researching a cold case.
A Murder for the Books by Victoria Gilbertreview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sean wrote: "Broken BonesThank you to Net Galley, Bookouture and Angela Marsons for an ARC copy for an honest review.
So firstly let me honestly say although a four-star book, this is the we..."
My favorite part was where Kim found the baby, brought it into the police station and tried to pawn it off on the night Sgt. When that didn't work, she brought the baby back to her office and called Bryant. Bryant arrived, then the cavalry arrived. Kevin and Tracy. Kim shouldn't have been surprised that Bryant called in the cavalry because this was going to be the first and last time they would probably see Kim with a baby.
Poor Kevin. He's lucky he was demoted after he almost called Kim the Virgin Mother.
A really good crime thriller with just the female lead I have been looking for
Evil Crimes by Michael Hambling. My spoiler free review can be found at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... orhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just finished a very thrilling debut horror novel by Scott Thomas called Kill Creek
I was blown away by his writing style. I was completely captivated by his every carefully thought out word.
Here is my review... https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Participating in a blog tour today for The Wife Between Us
Here is my review: https://whatchatreadin.blogspot.com/2...
I'm not sure how well Ellen Hart is outside of Minnesota's Twin Cities or even outside the LGBTQ community, but she should be. She's been writing for a long time, and her work is quite good. I just finished another installment in her Jane Lawless series, which is coming out in late Feb. A Whisper of Bones: A Jane Lawless Mystery was a very enjoyable read!https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Recently finished a detective story set in 1942.
Somebody at the Door by Raymond Postgate. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... orhttps://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
I do enjoy Aussie author Emma Viskic's stubborn, deaf detective. And Fire Came Down is #2 in the Caleb Zelic mystery series.
4★ Link to my review
Recently finished two good reads:
The Runaway Children by Sandy Taylor. My spoiler free review (despite what it says at the beginning of the review, which I cannot figure out how to remove) can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... or sandysbookaday.wordpress.com https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...The second book was
Killman Creek by Rachel Caine. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... or https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Finished
Unnatural Causes by Dawn Eastman, a quick and quick paced cosy read. My no spoiler review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... or sandysbookaday.wordpress.com https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Tough to read (domestic violence, PTSD) but so well written: The Great Alone
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just finished reading The Bomb Maker by Thomas Perry 
This was my first Thomas Perry novel, and I was not impressed. Here is my review. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished
The Rose in Winter by Sarah HarrisonYou can find my spoiler free review at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... orhttps://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
My final read of 2017 was
The Wanted by Robert Crais my spoiler free review can be found at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... orhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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