Book Reviews

9 June 2013

10 Ways to Kill a Cupid by Leigh Parker

Leigh has a story to tell and despite the absurdity of it, it has to be told before it's forgotten forever.You see Leigh used to be a Cupid. very silly, ...
8 June 2013

Vengeance Wears Black by Seumas Gallacher

Jack Calder and his former SAS colleagues at ISP, a specialist security firm, are saved from certain death when an ex-Gurkha is killed smothering a deadly grenade thrown into a ...
7 June 2013

The Crew by Dougie Brimson

The Crew is Dougie Brimson's first novel, following a series of books on the subject of football hooliganism written with his brother Eddy. Once again, the territory covered relates to ...
6 June 2013

The Schliemann Legacy by D.A. Graystone

1873 — Heinrich Schliemann discovered ancient treasure in Turkey which proved the existence of Troy. 1943 — the treasure disappeared from Nazi Germany. 1981 — Henri Mardinaud, international information broker, discovers the ...
5 June 2013

The Templar Agenda by John Paul Davis

A Swiss banker is found murdered, the latest in a string of murders whose victims had connections to the Vatican. Their killers: a secret society whose members include some of ...
4 June 2013

The Turtle Boy by Kealan Patrick Burke

Available for the first time on Amazon Kindle, Kealan Patrick Burke's Bram Stoker Award-winning coming of age story The Turtle Boy. School is out and summer has begun. For eleven ...

3 June 2013

These Unquiet Bones by Dean Harrison

Trying to get behind the truth of her mother's death, Amy Snow unleashes the skeletons lurking in the darkness of her father's closet, and learns a terrible, twisted truth about ...
2 June 2013

The Death of Wendell Mackey by CT Westing

In a lonely lot at the end of a forgotten road sits a building, a place of secrets and unimaginable horrors. Wendell Mackey has just escaped from it, where he ...

1 June 2013

Wrong Place Wrong Time by David P Perlmutter

My name is David P Perlmutter and I have a story to tell based on true events. There are moments in the story that I'm not proud of but also ...
31 May 2013

Zero Sum by Russell Blake

Present Day Wall Street. Where intelligence agencies and the financial industry are strange bedfellows, and the two worlds are often intertwined in disturbing ways.In this chillingly plausible, controversial scenario of ...
30 May 2013

Suicide Vacation by Rich Allen

Jack Holden is a big fan of the silver screen, but if Hollywood ever make a movie about his life, it will be a horror film. He's lost his job ...

29 May 2013

Tell No Lies by Julie Compton

Jack Hilliard is an upstanding public prosecutor, whose life is turned upside down in several ways, triggered by his boss, Earl, resigning as District Attorney and putting Jack’s name forward ...
28 May 2013

The Rocking Horse Garden by Maggie Silwood

The Rocking Horse Garden is a sweeping historical novel set on the east coast of Scotland in the 19th Century, where we follow a family who work as fishermen, herring ...
22 May 2013

The Folks at Fifty Eight by Michael Patrick Clark

Crème de la crème of spy novels The Folks at Fifty Eight, seems to me in many ways like a traditionally written British spy thriller a la John le Carre. The ...
21 May 2013

Sister by Rosamund Lupton

Sister by Rosamund Lupton, is one of the most extraordinary books I have read. It chronicles the story of Beatrice as she tries to find out what is behind the ...
20 May 2013

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

The Looking Glass Wars is not a re-telling, more it uses Alice in Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass as a loose base for the main characters and the setting. As a ...

24 April 2013

Book review: An Enormously English Monsoon Wedding by Christina Jones

An Enormously English Monsoon Wedding introduces us to Erin Boswell, a 27-year-old country girl from Berkshire who is madly in love with her fiance Jay Keskar. She is blissfully happy ...

24 April 2013

Losing It by Cora Carmack

“Best thing that ever happened to me…that girl finding out about us.”… “I’m going to pretend you didn’t just say my best friend was the best thing to ever happen ...

23 April 2013

Book Review: Girl in the Mirror/The Memory Maker by Cecelia Ahern

Girl in the Mirror/The Memory Maker is a book of two short stories by Cecelia Ahern, published in 2010. Girl in the Mirror is a short story about an elderly ...
22 April 2013

Book Review: The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern

The Book of Tomorrow is a novel by Cecelia Ahern published in 2009. The narrative follows sixteen-year-old Tamara Goodwin, who's life is turned upside down by the unexpected suicide of ...
22 April 2013

Promises I Can Keep by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas

We are taught that having children out of wedlock is wrong. We are also taught that having children too young is stupid. Because of these commonly held conceptions, single teenage ...

21 April 2013

Book Review: The Gift by Cecelia Ahern

The Gift is a book by Cecelia Ahern published in 2008. The story is set at Christmas time and is about Lou, a high powered businessman with a very busy ...
20 April 2013

Book Review: Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern

Thanks for the Memories is a novel by Cecelia Ahern published in 2008. The narrative follows two very different people as their lives begin to entwine. Justin is visiting Dublin ...
19 April 2013

Book Review: A Place Called Here by Cecelia Ahern

A Place Called Here is a novel by Cecelia Ahern published in 2006. Sandy Shortt has been obsessed with finding lost things ever since her childhood rival, Jenny-May Butler, went ...