Scottish crime thriller writer Stuart MacBride (http://www.stuartmacbride.com/) has treated us to a 9 course feast of Detective Logan McRae novels beginning with Cold Granite (2005), set in Aberdeen. His latest is a heart-stopping blood warmer from this author of three consecutive No. 1 bestsellers, including Birthdays for the Dead. The summary goes as follows. Eight years ago, the […]
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David Baldacci (http://davidbaldacci.com/) began writing stories as a child, when his mother gave him a notebook in which to record them. He wrote for more than two decades, penning short stories and later screenplays without much success. While practicing law, he turned to novel writing, taking three years to write Absolute Power. Published in 1996, it
Award winning Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbo (http://www.jonesbo.co.uk/) has achieved a high degree of popularity lately. Why not give him a go to see what the fuss is about? The summary of his latest thriller is as follows. Sonny is a model prisoner. He listens to the confessions of other inmates, and absolves them of their sins. He
Jeffrey Archer (http://www.jeffreyarcher.co.uk/site/) has had a colourful career including a spell in prison, 2001-2003, for being economical with the truth. Selling fiction has been his strong point. He is quoted in the Independent of 21 March 2014 (p.15) as saying ‘If you’re asking me if I’d rather sell 270 million books or have the Booker Prize,
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Nora Roberts (http://www.noraroberts.com/) has been casting a spell over her readers with her mesmerising fiction since the publication of her first novel Irish Thoroughbred in 1981. At the last count her novels number 209. If that is not an endorsement of her success nothing is. The latest, Shadow Spell (Book Two of The Cousins O’Dwyer Trilogy) has a
The fiction written by Patricia Briggs (http://www.hurog.com/) is a relatively new genre – namely “urban fantasy”. I appreciate that walking down Lanark High Street is fantastical enough but how about transporting yourself into the slightly more bizarre world of Mercedes Thompson? This is her eighth adventure. The summary is as follows. An unexpected phone call heralds
American lawyer and resident of Virginia, USA, David Baldacci (http://davidbaldacci.com/) has 27 best selling novels to date. His latest is a mesmerizing tour de force. The summary is as follows. Fourteen-year-old Vega Jane lives in the village of Wormwood, where life is nasty, brutish and short. Villagers have been told that there is nothing outside of Wormwood except
Twice winner of the Romantic Novelist of the Year Award, Janey Morris (a.k.a. Rosie Thomas, http://rosiethomasauthor.com/) writes compellingly of love and loss. Her latest masterpiece will wring your heart out like the spin cycle of a powerful German washing machine. The summary is as follows. London in 1870 is a terrifying place for a young, beautiful woman of
Glasgow crime writer Sinclair Macleod (https://en-gb.facebook.com/sinclairmacleodauthor) gives us his darkest, and in many ways his most compelling book in ‘Soulseeker‘. The summary is as follows. Detective Inspector Alex Menzies starts her first day in a new job with a call to the scene of a terrible murder. The body of a young man has been cremated on a
