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  • 3.5 stars,  historical fiction,  thriller

    Historical Fiction Review: ‘The Lincoln Conspiracy: A Novel’ by Timothy L. O’Brien

    Rating:  3.5 out of 5 stars SynopsisA nation shattered by its president’s murder. Two diaries that reveal the true scope of an American conspiracy. A detective determined to bring the truth to light, no matter what it costs him From…

    November 19, 2012
  • 3 stars,  paranormal,  thriller,  YA

    YA Book Review: ‘The Name of the Star’ by Maureen Johnson

    Rating:  3 out of 5 stars Synopsis courtesy of Goodreads The day Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London marks a memorable occasion. For Rory, it’s the start of a new life at a London boarding school. But for many,…

    November 12, 2012
  • 2 stars,  crime,  mystery,  thriller

    Crime/Thriller Review: ‘A Plea of Insanity’ by Priscilla Masters

    Rating: 2.5 out of 5 starsSynopsis On a late summer Monday, Doctor Claire Roget takes up her new post of clinical psychiatrist at Greatbach Secure Psychiatrist Unit in the Midlands city of Stoke on Trent. Six months ago, her predecessor…

    August 19, 2012
  • 3.5 stars,  ghosts,  horror,  thriller

    Review: ‘The Man in the Picture’ by Susan Hill

    Rating:  3.5 out of 5 stars Synopsis A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver’s old professor in Cambridge. On this cold winter’s night, its eerie secret is revealed by the…

    May 11, 2012
  • 3.5 stars,  mystery,  thriller

    Review: ‘Before I Go To Sleep’ by S.J.Watson

    Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Synopsis (taken from Goodreads.com)Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love–all forgotten overnight. And the one…

    April 28, 2012
  • 4 stars,  mystery,  thriller

    Review: ‘And Then There Were None’ by Agatha Christie

    Date finished: 29 October 2011 Rating: 4.5 stars Format: eBook Source: Borrowed from local library’s eBook site Genre: Thriller; Mystery/Crime (Originally) Published: by Collins Crime Club in November 1939 The Synopsis [taken from Waterstones.com] Ten strangers, apparently with little in common,…

    November 16, 2011
  • classic,  gothic,  readalong,  thriller

    Thoughts on ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker

    When it was released in 1897, Dracula was praised as “the sensation of the season” and “the most blood-curdling novel of the paralysed century”.  114 years later and Count Dracula continues to haunt modern readers both in Stoker’s original words…

    October 26, 2011
  • 2.5 stars,  ghosts,  thriller

    Review: ‘The Small Hand’ by Susan Hill

    Date finished: 21 September 2011 Rating: 2.5 stars Format: eBook Source: Bought Genre: Thriller Published: by Profile Books Limited in September 2010 The Synopsis [taken from Waterstones.com] Returning home from a visit to a client late one summer’s evening, antiquarian…

    October 1, 2011
  • 2.5 stars,  mystery,  thriller

    Review: ‘The Lost Symbol’ by Dan Brown (Don’t judge me…)

    Date finished: 13 February 2011 Rating: 2.5 stars Format: eBook Source: Bought on waterstones.com in August 2010 Genre: Thriller/Mystery Published: 15 September 2009 (in eBook version) The Synopsis As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to…

    February 15, 2011
  • family,  mystery,  thriller

    Review: ‘Sister’ by Rosamund Lupton

    Rating: 3.5 stars Format: Paperback Source: ‘Borrowed’ from a friend Genre: Mystery/Thriller Published: by Piatkus Books in September 2010 What the blurb said: Nothing can break the bond between sisters …When Beatrice gets a frantic call in the middle of…

    October 15, 2010
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