Showing posts with label Mystery & Thrillers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mystery & Thrillers. Show all posts

Book Review: 22 Seconds (Women's Murder Club) by James Patterson

Another successful hit from the co-authors of The Women’s Murder Club. Drugs, the hot topic of 2nd amendment rights, murders - the whole shebang falling squarely on the shoulders of the Women’s Murder Club.

Mystery of a Piece of Land Once Known as Sycamore Row

Did you know John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.

Man with Horrific Childhood Become "Doctor Sleep"

Did you know, Stephen King returns to the character and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining? In this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

Adam Dalgliesh's Case Murder of A Housemaid in Cover Her Face

Cover Her Face is P. D. James's electric debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense. The story about headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door.

Stephen King's Under the Doom Cover Used Photographs and 3-D Rendering

Did you know, the jacket concept for Under the Dome originated as an ambitious idea from the mind of Stephen King? The artwork is a combination of photographs, illustration and 3-D rendering. This is a departure from the direction of King's most recent illustrated covers.

British Woman Vanishes in Daniel Silva's New Novel, The English Girl

Madeline Hart is a rising star in Britain's governing party: beautiful, intelligent, driven by an impoverished childhood to succeed. But she is also a woman with a dark secret: she is the lover of Prime Minister Jonathan Lancaster. Somehow, her kidnappers have learned of the affair, and they intend to make the British leader pay dearly for his sins. Fearful of a scandal that will destroy his career, Lancaster decides to handle the matter privately rather than involve the British police.

Peter Wimsey in Strong Poison Mystery

Sayers is a brilliant thinker and novelist. Her Peter Whimsey mysteries are fraught with the navigations and negotiations that women and men must make to create and sustain a relationship.  Her characters, primary and secondary, are all well drawn and intriguing. She allows her second string to play an important part in solving the mysteries.  The glimpses into upper class (very upper) British life are tantalising -- especially as Lord Peter has begun to realize that his family's way of life and living is soon to be an anachronism.