Following the death of his childhood best friend, Federal police officer Aaron Falk returns from Melbourne to the small country town he grew up in. His old friend Luke apparently killed himself after murdering his wife and six year old son and in the town of Kiewarra tensions are high. The grip of a two …
This book is kind of unusual. Purporting to be the culmination of the research of the author into one of his own ancestors, it's a collection of documents relating to a brutal murder that takes place in the Scottish Highlands during the 1800's. It's a time when crofters worked rented land owned by the laird, …
There are days when it's raining or or nights when it's chilly and you just want to curl up with a bestseller, easy read thriller. You could do a lot worse than this one. It's one of those books that gets labelled as the next Girl On The Train. And perhaps that's about right. I …
The Pope has been kidnapped. Is it the work of terrorists? Or does the rabbit hole go a lot deeper than that? Enter the League Of Invisible Knights, a secret order of highly trained professionals sworn to fight the forces of evil. Ayden Tanner, an ex-SAS commando, with two colleagues, descends on the scene, and …
I was sent this book by the author for honest review, and all opinions here are my own. And I'm very glad that Cory Barclay did send it to me, because I really enjoyed it. Some of you who know your history or werewolf lore will have heard of the story of the Werewolf of …
Grady's life is a mess. He's ex-military man, with a big alcohol problem, and his wife is about to leave him. Just when he thinks things can't get any worse, his dead beat drug addicted brother drags him into his problems, and he finds himself embroiled in the search for a mysterious object that a …
A more fun book this week than usual, a Victorian mystery/thriller about a girl who has inherited a criminal empire from her grandmother and must learn how to use her new power wisely. But as she is coming into her own, her long lost brother asks her to shelter a child, and she soon finds …
Continue reading Kitty Peck & The Child Of Ill Fortune by Kate Griffin
This is a hard review to write, because being sent the book by the author, I have to say that at the core there was something that I didn't quite get about this book. Former.ly is the story of a guy who is recruited to work at a mysterious social media start up for a …
Continue reading Former.ly: The Rise And Fall Of A Social Network by Dane Cobain
Perhaps Grisham's best novels were the early ones, like The Firm or The Client, but his more recent ones still make the best seller lists, and hold their own. In this volume, rather than being about a good lawyer in bad circumstances, it's about the type of lawyer we love to hate. The kind that defends …
This one was recommended to me by an old friend, and it ended up on my must-read list for the year. It's the first book in a huge epic sci-fi saga called The Commonwealth Saga, and oh my God, it's about a billion pages long, and has a huge list of characters. The book is …
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