Thriller

This audio version of Linwood Barclay's book 'Fear the Worst' is very intense and I found myself being glued to the cd player, even when a friend came round! I had to shove her out in the garden with one of my daughters so I could get to the end of disc 3! How mad is that!

Jeff Harding is brilliant at conveying the terror that character Tim Blake goes through when his daughter Sydney (Syd) goes missing and of course in the process you can't not play the cds back to back until you get to the end.

On reflection, I found this book very strange. While I enjoyed reading it, I came to the end feeling that it lacked completion.

The individual stories that took place within the novel were interesting and engaging, but over all the book lacked the compellingness of Koontz's other works.

A good book, but I think log-term Koontz fans will be slightly disappointed.

Another gripping read from Koontz. Koontz's characters are completely relatable yet a little bit kooky, and come out with things that make you smile and laugh out loud. The storyline, if featured anywhere but a Koontz book, would be a little hard to believe, but fits in perfectly with his trademark mix of thrill and humour that make you not want to put the book down.

A good one for all Koontz fans.

Well, a vampire zombie fest is not my normal reading but this is very good. It is a combination of Will Smith's I am Legend and Sean of the Dead (may be I'm a bit cynical but I can see the funny side!), together with some good old blood sucking thrown in to the mix!

A competent first novel concerning one of the lost Cossack gold stories and the effect its retrieval from the Bank of England vaults could have internationally, and particularly between the Ukraine and Russia.

I found it slightly confusing, perhaps because I kept forgetting to check the dates at the beginning of each chapter, moving as it does not only between people but also between times. There is a grey inevitability hanging around, compounded by getting to know characters then discovering they have been, or will be, eliminated.

From a simple premise comes the creepiest and most unnerving read I've had in a long time. Neil Gaiman was right when he said that Heart Shaped Box is the most assured debut since Clive Barkers The Damnation Game.

I am a real fan of Jonathan Kellerman and over the years I think I've read all of his Alex Delaware novels. For those of you like me, the history of Alex, Milo, Robin and their French bulldogs Spike (now sadly deceased) and Blanche has been a continuous thread throughout the Delaware novels - giving us an insight as to why Milo is the way he is and how Alex and Robin have got to this point in their relationship. (I'm not convinced its going to last this time round, by the way!). ..read more

I found this book a bit confusing to start with, as it jumps form past to present and character to character, however about half way through, the story focuses more on the present, and it turns into a thrilling compelling story.

As the cover says, this is a story about a boy and girl who go missing 16 years apart. The common link is Sarah Finch and we first meet Sarah as a child when her brother disappears. Looking at the story through her childish eyes, and with the use of flashbacks throughout this book we begin to understand the devastation and destruction that such a tragedy can cause to an ordinary family - particularly to Sarah's mother who is a horrible character, but very well written so that you feel great sympathy for her.

A short prologue introduces us to Scott and his wife, as their son dies unexpectedly and unexplained. We then meet the main character, Scott Henderson, again three years later. Scott has turned his back on his once affluent life, divorced and moved to the beach. His life is pretty boring - he gets up, goes to work, goes home, doesn't sleep much and then gets up and goes to work again at a local restaurant - as a waiter and sometimes chef; and although anyone would be screwed up after the death of their child, we learn more about his guilt as the story progresses.