Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: Thrillers

  • The Treatment

    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…


  • Birdman

    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…


  • Body Double

    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…


  • The Shining Girls

    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…


  • Scream for Me

    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…


  • 61 Hours

    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…


  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest

    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…


  • 100 Books in 2011: Worth Dying For

    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…


  • 100 Books in 2011: The Girl who Played with Fire

    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.…


  • 100 Books in 2011 challenge: Voodoo River

    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…


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