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David Ashe is a ghost hunter and parapsycholist who is employed by a wealthy company to investigate the cause of paranormal activity at Cromaich castle on the western coast of Scotland. As David learns more about the castle and the inhabitants he becomes more aware that this is not just a ghost hunting problem.

Based on the highly successful screen play by Soren Sveistrup this book is a winner. David Hewson has filled out the characters and made them into believable people.He has captured the atmosphere of this rather bleak screenplay and made it into a book which is gripping and exciting. Once I started reading I was hooked until the last page and read it just three days! There is a slight twist at the end and several things in the book have been changed but in my opinion it made far more sense.

A throughly enjoyable book.I loved it and highly recommended it.

Dante's Numbers is the seventh book in Hewsons series about Italian police officer Nic Costa. This novel is spread between Italy and the USA, as Nic and his fellow officers seek to uncover the person behind a series of brutal attacks and killings that are based on Dante's Inferno, and occur just as the a new movie based on his work is about to be shown.

I have always loved wild and deserted places, especially if they are islands. They are exciting. There is nothing more therapeutic for the soul, than being close to nature in a wild place. So it is not surprising that I could empathise with Letty (Leticia) in Bella Pollen's ‘The Summer of the Bear'.

Another gem of a book about two unlikly sleuths Elsie and Ethelred. I love the character of Elsie becouse she is so over the top in everthing that she does,very direct and quite tactless at times which leaves poor Ethelred squirming in his shoes, but he is the perfect foil for Elsie.

For the first time the reader is given an insight into L.C. Tyler's latest historical crime novel and I can understand why he is only published barely once a year.

This book is one of the most amusing that I have read for a very long time,it is a send up of the country house
murders where all suspects are rounded up in the Drawing Room and the guilty party is revealed.

The main characters are Ethelred who is a crime writer and Elsie who is his agent, who seems to spend most of her time keeping Ethelred on the straight and narrow, while feeding her addiction to chocolate.

The dialogue between them is so sharp and witty it is almost like a comedy act. A very funny book with a clever plot and an absolute joy to read.

Perfect Murder - a quick read, it most certainly was! I thoroughly enjoyed this well crafted stand alone, very short crime novel by Peter James. It has a wonderful twist at the end - but read it carefully because you may miss it - the beginning is the important bit!

Highly recommend - it only takes an hour to read!

A fab easy read, very funny, full of surprises and very true-to-life. the characters are completely believable, and there is no need to have read the previous books to understand what has been going on, although I would love to read the rest of the series! perfect for summer hols or just some chill out time.

This is a clever and very funny book - I love the main character Christian Sorenson Birtwhite, a middle aged trendy who takes notheing or anybody seriously.

Beautifully observed characters with a well thought out stroy line and surprise ending. Nothing is quite what it seems, but I thoroughly enjoyed the authors forays into philosophy. Well worth reading and highly recommended.

This is the first book by James McCreet about a murderer on the loose in Victorian London, who loves burning down buildings, and is creating havoc among the inhabitants. His vivid descriptions of the low life of London, and the public hanging of a murderer are quite harrowing. The relationship between the top brass of the police and the new detective force is very interesting. The only thing that really irritated me was that the author seemed to be leading the reader by the hand. I quote: "We will step momentarily away from the case" etc etc