crime

Target Alex Cross……………James Patterson. As always with James Patterson an enjoyable read with plenty of twists and turns along the way. Our hero, Alex Cross, is once more on the trail of people trying to usurp the lawful government of the United States of America, are foreign powers involved or...

Corona spent most of his early life stealing and drug dealing, this was interspaced with periods of inprisonment. The first roughly 200 pages of the book seem to be a list of the names of people He had dealings with with very short descriptions of the various crimes that he was involved in...

Hey guys, So some advice would go along way as you can guess by the title on the thread , yes I have a criminal record. To outline it simply and I was brought up in care from the age of 11 but don't need to go into that side of it, I started getting into quite a bit of trouble when I was 14 for...

A murder mystery with some Satanic overtones thrown in for good measure. Leonard Lawson, a professor of medieval art, had hidden a dark and sinister secret for 50 years. It took his macabre death linked to a series of other, apparently ritual, murders for the secret to be unearthed by DCI Eve...

An author I’d never heard of, despite this book being the 14th in the series. Before writing my review I had to look the author up and see what others were saying. Words like ‘Compassionate’, ‘original’ and ‘contemporary’ seem to be used a lot: phrases like ‘few writers blend the ancient and...

A Jan Fabel thriller. Jan Fabel is the Head of Polizei Hamburg’s Murder Commission. One of his first cases was that of a missing girl. Though there were various suspects for a possible abduction and murder the case was never solved. The girl, Monika Krone, a student at the time, is never found...

I was disappointed with this novel, whilst it has all of the ingredients by way of plot, storyline and characters it somehow didn't totally gel. Part of the problem seems to be that the characters, in particular Inspector Celcius Daly, the main character, seem to be lacking in depth. Having...