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BOOK REVIEW: THE BEACH HOUSE (JAMES PATTERSON)

Saturday, June 30th, 2007 Posted in Books | 1 Comment »

Jack Mullen, a young and talented law student, finds out that his brother has been killed. It is claimed that Peter Mullen drowned, but the bruising and cuts all over his body show otherwise. He was murdered. Jack then ...

BOOK REVIEW: CRADLE AND ALL (JAMES PATTERSON)

Friday, June 29th, 2007 Posted in Books | No Comments »

This book is all about religion and babies. There are two girls, both virgins and both pregnant. Nobody believes that they are still virgins, despite their protests, except for religious leaders in the church who have had to give events ...

BOOK REVIEW: POST MORTEM (PATRICIA CORNWELL)

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 Posted in Books | No Comments »

This is the first ever Patricia Cornwell book I have read. I will be reading more. A killer strikes early on a Saturday morning, killing a woman by strangulation. And then strikes again early on another Saturday morning, killing ...

BOOK REVIEW: 2ND CHANCE (JAMES PATTERSON)

Sunday, June 24th, 2007 Posted in Books | No Comments »

A young girl is killed in a melée of bullets outside a church by an unknown killer who escapes in a van with a strange symbol on it. No-one else is hurt or killed and the forensic investigation shows ...

BOOK REVIEW: VANISH (TESS GERRITSEN)

Friday, June 22nd, 2007 Posted in Books | No Comments »

Tess Gerritsen is rapidly becoming one of my favourite authors. The book starts with the gripping tale of illegal child immigrants who think they are coming into the USA to stay with a family and have a new life, but they're ...

BOOK REVIEW: WITHOUT FAIL (LEE CHILD)

Monday, June 18th, 2007 Posted in Books | No Comments »

Lee Child's best creation, Jack Reacher, is back in this slightly warped, but slightly compelling read. Somebody threatens the vice president. The person in charge of his defence (Froelich) cannot solve the mystery and more threats arrive. Froelich used ...

BOOK REVIEW: THE JESTER (JAMES PATTERSON)

Monday, May 28th, 2007 Posted in Books | 2 Comments »

Usually, James Patterson books are murder thrillers but this one is different. After the discovery of an ancient relic in an old crypt, Patterson unravels the mystery behind it, dating back a thousand years to the Crusades and a character called ...

BOOK REVIEW: DOLORES CLAIBORNE (STEPHEN KING)

Saturday, April 7th, 2007 Posted in Books | No Comments »

Stephen King is not an ordinary author. And this is not an ordinary book. For starters, there are no chapters. Well, I suppose there's actually one and it lasts the entire duration of the book, but the ...

BOOK REVIEW: THE AMBLER WARNING (ROBERT LUDLUM)

Friday, April 6th, 2007 Posted in Books | No Comments »

Robert Ludlum is the man who wrote the Jason Bourne trilogy. You know the ones - The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Legacy - all of which have now been made into Hollywood movies, starring Matt ...

BOOK REVIEW: BODY DOUBLE (TESS GERRITSEN)

Thursday, April 5th, 2007 Posted in Books | No Comments »

Having to do an hour's commute in the morning and another hour back again at night, it means I get to read a lot. And Body Double didn't take me long to get through. Similar to the way ...