Thrillers
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The Treatment is the second in Mo Hayder’s Jack Caffrey series. Caffrey is still obsessed with the paedophile next door and the mystery of what happened to his brother all those years ago. Caffrey gets a case that seems a little too close for comfort. A family is held prisoner in their own home for…
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Birdman is Mo Hayder’s debut novel and the first to feature Jack Caffrey, a handsome yet troubled detective. I enjoy a thriller and Mo Hayder is easy to read. Which should not be confused with easy to write. Someone is murdering women and sewing live birds into their chests. Disturbingly, Hayder is able to present…
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Body Double by Tess Gerritsen is a Rizzoli and Isles mystery. A woman is killed in a car and she looks just like Maura Isles. Naturally, she’s shaken by this and responds by investigating the case. Isles is adopted and so it’s entirely possible the victim is related to her. In the course of finding…
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I’m terribly aware how heavily skewed my reading is in favour of white men. It must have an impact on my writing, and my language, and my worldview, and I’d like to have more diversity in my reading. I read widely in terms of genre, but not so much in terms of author. There are…
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I picked up Scream for Me by Karen Rose from the book drop at work. I was in the mood for something lightweight and thrilling. Following the death of his brother, Detective Vartanian finds a collection of photographs that indicate that, when much younger, his brother participated in the gang-rape of several young women. When…
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Oh hai Jack Reacher. 61 Hours by Lee Child sees Reacher stuck in South Dakota during a snow blizzard of the kind that lasts for days and shuts whole towns down. Coincidentally, it’s a town with a problem that needs the kind of solution Reacher can provide. There’s an elderly woman who is a key…
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Finally, the last part of the Millenium trilogy! In Steig Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, Lisbeth Salander is arrested for the attempted murder of her father and her friends work hard to save her. Lisbeth has a bullet lodged in her brain and is taken to hospital where her life is saved…
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Ah, Jack Reacher, I just can’t stay away from you. And in Worth Dying For, Lee Child’s taciturn alpha male itinerant troubleshooter/maker is on good form. Reacher is hitching across the US, as is his wont, and is dropped off in the middle of the desolate plains of Nebraska. He finds a motel and walks…
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I’ve become fed up of reading short books in order to hit my 100 books for the year target and was feeling the need to get into something more substantial. The Girl who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson is the second in the Millenium trilogy and is a 650 page brick. Lisbeth Salander is…
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I’m way behind on the 100 books in 2011 challenge, so I’m picking short, easy reads to try to catch up. Robert Crais is an easy read, and Voodoo River comes in at less than 300 pages. Elvis Cole is hired to find out about the birth parents of an adopted woman, who is a TV star…
Boudica Marginalia 