Wednesday, February 11, 2015

The Bookman - six crime fiction/thrillers particularly enjoyed so far this year

JANUARY WINDOW- Philip Kerr - Head of Zeuss - $36.99

Really enjoyed this one. Unusually set in the world of glamorous London first division football.
We are promised it is the first in a new series featuring football manager turned private eye Scott Manson. Bring on the next one.






POP GOES THE WEASEL - M.J.Arlidge - Penguin - $37.00  

The second in the series featuring Detective Inspector Grace, and another superb edge of the seat crime thriller.




RUNAWAY - Peter May - Quercus - $34.99

In 1965 five teenage friends fled Glasgow for London to pursue musical stardom. In 2015 a brutal murder forces three of those men, now in their sixties, to journey back to London to confront the dark truth they have run from for decades.






DIE AGAIN - Tess Gerritsen - Bantam Press - $36.99

The new Rizzoli & Isles thriller  from one tof the great crime writers. Dark & addictive, and hard to put down I read it in one day.


OBSESSION IN DEATH - J.D.Robb.- piatkus - $37.99

A crisp winter morning in New York. In a luxury apartment, the body of a woman lies stretched out on a huge bed. On the wall above, the killer has left a message in bold black ink: FOR LIEUTENANT EVE DALLAS, WITH GREAT ADMIRATION AND UNDERSTANDING.

Book forty in the NY Times number one best-selling series,



FIVE MINUTES ALONE - Paul Cleave - Penguin Books - $38.00

In this eighth Paul Cleave title Theodore Tate returns. Tate and Carl Schroder, labelled "The Coma Cops" by the media, are finally getting their lives back into shape. All Cleave's titles are set in Christchurch and I think this one may be his best yet. There is of course as much violence, murder and mayhem as is normal with his writing.

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