A lot of people aspire to be authors but the sad truth is that very few authors actually make a living from writing. Most authors begin by writing only on the side while working at a full time job and most totally give up on their dreams after awhile. It is very tough to remain positive while facing rejections after rejections. The hugely ...

As The Drowning Man by Michael Robotham opens,  DI Vincent Ruiz is clinging to a buoy in the River Thames with gunshot wounds. He has no recollection of the shooting or how he ended up in the river. Many of his colleagues believe he is faking amnesia to cover for being a bent cop. Ruiz has to retrace his steps to find out ...

Detective Joe Ashworth is on his way home with his daughter Jess when, due to very heavy snowfall, the Metro they are travelling on stops at Mardle, outside of Newcastle. The passengers  are asked to disembark and catch a bus. As the other passengers fade into the swirling snow, Jessie notices that an elderly woman hasn’t left the train. Thinking that the woman has fallen asleep, ...

ROBERT BRYNDZA deserves to join the heavy hitters of the thriller genre. I have just finished reading his DCI Erika Foster book #2, The Night Stalker. I really enjoyed it as it is a very fast-paced thriller. I have not read The Girl In The Ice, the first book in the series. I hope I can find the first book and the other books ...

Don’t Make a Sound by David Jackson truly held me in its grip from the opening pages and I finished it in a single day, staying up till midnight to finish it. The author sends his readers running for cover in this extraordinarily creepy, disturbing and tense outing. The Benson’s seem to be a normal happy little family. There’s mum Harriet, Dad Malcolm and 10 year old Daisy. ...

Heat Lightning is the second book in John Sandford’s series featuring Virgil Flowers, an investigator with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Virgil is an unconventional detective, who wears his blond hair down to his shoulders and dresses in tee shirts bearing the names of often-obscure rock bands. A gunman shoots Bobby Sanderson as he is walking his dog one night in Stillwater, Minnesota, then ...

Mags has not seen her brother Abe for years, having left their family home when she was a teenager. Out of the blue, she receives a phone call informing her that her brother Abe is in a coma in hospital and nobody knows what happened to him. Mags flies half way around the world to be at his side. She meets Abe’s fiancé ...

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima is a coming-of-age story told from the perspectives of the story’s three main characters: Ryuji Tsukazaki, a sailor; the widow Fusako Kuroda, an importer of European finery; and her misfit son Noboru, a boy poised on the tenuous cusp between childhood and adolescence. In a Yokohama suburb during the postwar ...

The Murder Road By Stephen Booth When Mac Kelsey finds his lorry wedged under a low country bridge while on a delivery run of animal feed, he never expects that his life would be over soon. His lorry blocks the narrrow lane in and out of the village of Shawhead. A local woman on her way home reports the stranded lorry to ...

Marc Solie is on the run. His family never recovers after the death of his younger sister from leukemia two years ago. After the divorce of his parents, his dad leaves him in the custody of his deeply depressed mother. Since then Marc’s been running from himself — from the pain of loss and loneliness. He suddenly loses touch with his father, and before ...