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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…