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I set myself a reading target of 12 books for December 2018 and I exceeded the target by 5 books, partly due to the fact that some of the books I read in December are short books. The last book that I read this month is The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway which is only 117 pages ...

A few years ago, I read The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler and it left quite a good impression on me. The Hypnotist is the first in the bestselling Joona Limna series that have sold multi-million copies worldwide. Lars Kepler is the pseudonym for husband-and-wife team of Alexandra and Alexander Ahndoril. The Sandman is the fourth book in the Joona Limna ...

I have a few Michael Connelly books in my collection but I have not read any of them.  A friend lent me “The Poet” by Michael Connelly several weeks ago and I managed to finish reading it (480 pages) within 2 days. In The Poet, the hero is Jack McEvoy, a Rocky Mountain News crime-beat reporter. The Poet opens with ...

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is a heart-wrenching story of family, love and friendship and a chronicle of three decades of Afghan history, from the Soviet invasion to the tribal wars and the vicious reign of the Taliban to American intervention and attempted reconstruction by world powers. It is a story of two women, Mariam and Laila. Mariam ...

Knots & Crosses is Book One of the Inspector Rebus series written by Ian Rankin. Published in 1987, it was written while the author was a postgraduate student at the University of Edinburgh. As the story begins, Edinburgh has been shocked by the abduction and subsequent strangling of two young girls. The police are working around the clock to catch ...

Color of Justice by J. Leon Pridgen II has a very high rating on Goodreads and that was what attracted me to this book. I was under the impression that it is a legal thriller, so I was expecting to be treated to exciting court trials. On that front, I was in for a big disappointment. The novel is at ...

In “If You Knew Her” by Emily Elgar, young and beautiful Cassie Jensen lies in a coma in a hospital ward after a hit-and-run accident. Frank Ashcroft,  a male patient in the same ward, is in a sort of comatose but unknown to the others, he is in locked-in-syndrome and can see and hear what is going on around him ...

Fiddlers is the 52nd and the last instalment in the 87th Precinct series of police procedural novels written by Ed McBain (pseudonym of Evan Hunter). The author, hailed as the father of police procedural and one of the greats of crime fiction, died in July 2005 from cancer and this novel was published posthumously in the same year. A blind ...

Two O’Clock Boy is the stunning eponymous debut novel from author Mark Hill. It is a story that grabs you by the throat and never let go. Moving between the present day investigations and the weeks in 1984 after Connor Laird first went to Longacre Children’s Home, readers are taken on a thrill ride full of twists, shocks and complete ...

Painkiller by N.J. Fountain begins with the protagonist finding a suicide note written by her to her husband Dominic. Dear Dominic, I am sorry I have to write this, but not as sorry as I feel that you have to read this. I cannot go on like this. I really do not wish to leave you, but my body is still ...