Fiction

I have really enjoyed this Maisie Dobbs Mystery, I will definitley listen or read some more when I get the chance.

Maisie has been asked to check out a property that her client is thinking of buying down in Kent which turns out to be a most intriguing case. Maisie is out about and is well aquainted with the owner of said property but as the owner of the property he is not liked in the village, but no one will say a word against him. He strikes me as a man who presumes he is above the law and that no one will stand upto him, but he meets his match in Maisie's clerk Billy.

Yet another great, fabulous book by Adele Parks this one starts in the UK and then moves to Italy. Elizabeth has got the first of her dreams when she manages to hook an Italian husband, Roberto but the other thing she desparaetly wants a baby. There life seems to have been controlled by the best time to make love that everything that they could be doing is ruled out.

I found this book in a little back street shop in East Grinstead, the picture on the front intriqued me and also the title "Silence and Music". How could you have music and yet there be silence. Read on and find out the mystery is within the pages.

Henning Mankell has written a great number of books and he is recognised as being in the first division when it comes to writing Crime novels according to The Times Newspaper.

The stories are usually based in and around Sweden and this one is no exception. It is set in 1991 and Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an annoymous tip off. Then a few days later a life raft is washed up on to the local beech. Stranger still, is that there are two well dressed young men in expensive suits lying in the raft and they have been shot dead.

Yet another fabulous book by Kate Morton. This one though is based on a child who ends up on the eve of the first world war on a ship bound for Australia. The child seems to have been abandoned and is given the name Nell by the couple who take her in and bring her up as their own.

Nell when she lands in Austrailia has a little white suitcase and within it is a fabulous children's fairy tale book, which she loves and remembers from prior to comming to Australia as having been given to her by a mysterious person called the Authoress.

This is the first book of Kate Morton's that I have read. The House of Riverton is certainly riverting, a real page turner.

The story, is a story of love based over the years between 1914 and 1924 when she starts as a hired help in the house and then becomes the ladies-maid to Hannah one of the daughters of the house and goes on to reveal what happens within the house at Riverton and how in 1924 what happens to a dear friend of Hannah (her mistress) down at the lake of this grand English country house.

Testament was a book I wanted to read very slowly to take in the atmosphere but the story wouldn't let me! I had to keep turning the page to find out what was going on both in the past with Simon, Gwyneth his wife and Toby his son with cerebral palsy, and the present with Damia, her relationship with Catz her partner and how she tries to decipher a painting on Kineton College wall.

This is the first Peter James book I have read and I was on the edge of my seat from start to finish.

Karen Gillece has written a real page turner which will turn out to be unforgettable. And according to The Irish Times is "An emerging force to be reckoned with".

I enjoyed the Da Vinci Code immensely and have read it several times. The Va Dinci Cod is a twisted parody of Dan Browns bestseller. I didn't enjoy it and the humour did not appeal to me. I found it boring and tedious but I can understand the appeal. Those that are tired of the hype surrounding the Da Vinci Code and are looking for a humourous rehash of the conspiracy theory will no doubt find this pocket sized book entertaining.