Crime

Fans of crime and London are in for a treat with this 400 page epic which brings to life the capital's murderers from medieval times.

From the foul-stenched, cramped medieval streets to the respectable suburbs of Finchley, Decharne transports the reader back in time and place so that you can almost breath in the atmosphere.

Charting seven centuries of murderous mayhem, Decharne takes in the wealthiest in society but also the poorest revolting peasants who ran amok through London in support of Wat Tyler in 1381.

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.

When I read the blurb for this book, I wasn't impressed - a story about city bankers and stocktraders, set in Londons business district did little to excite me. However Andersons style of writing had me laughing pretty quickly. He is frank, funny, at times crude, and tells it how it is no holds bared. The story is a odd cocktail of drink, drugs, sex, corpoate conspiracy, illegal activites of all sorts, and strangely above all, friendship. ..read more

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.

This is the latest book in the Thrusday Next series which is about a literary detective who polices the book world.

Thursday Next has disappeared so the fictional Thrusday has been given the task of finding her.

An exciting plot with several distractions on the way, one of them is the mechanical man called Sprocket who becomes Thursday's butler. Sprocket is an amazing character because he
is the perfect butler who always says the right thing at the right time, and by the lifting of an eyebrow he can show his feelings.

In chilly Oslo, young mothers are going missing, and a snowman just happens to be somewhere close by.

Another novel in the Anna Travis detective series, Clean Cut starts with tragedy striking as DCI James Langton is near fatally injured whist on duty. He pulls through, but requires a lot of rehab, which as a man used to being in the thick of things, he isn't too happy about. The first part of the book focuses on the strain this puts on Anna as she tries to juggle work, being James' carer and fighting off rumors that the DCI will never return to policing.

Well, I'm a big fan of Peter James and I always look out for his signing events when a new book is launched. This time was no different and I was very lucky to be invited to tag along to Peter's book launch being held at a bleak, windy and rainy Shoreham Harbour. After getting slightly lost en route - sadly, I think I'm one of those people who should use a sat nav for even the shortest of journeys - we finally parked up and got blown along to a huge warehouse on the edge of the quay, with Police everywhere. ..read more

La Plante excels again in british crime fiction with another great read. it is great, but slightly odd, to read a crime thriller book set in the UK - we are so used to reading american fiction that it disorientates you a bit to begin with! The characters are well rounded and the team could easily be part of a tv series (that would actually be very watchable).

Another great Tempe Brennan novel, this time set in Reichs' hometown of Charlotte, and based around the world of NASCAR racing. Brennan is called to the landfill behind the racing track when a body is discovered in a barrel. Before she knows whats' happening, the FBI are involved and the body suddenly disappears from the morgue and is 'accidently' cremated before it can be identified.