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The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin. Superior crime fiction 10/10
Books By bookworm on 1/31/2007 9:37 AM
Ian Rankin’s The Naming of the Dead [0 7528 6858 6] is so good its like an exercise in superior writing. Again featuring his imperfect but inspirationally dogged DI Rebus, he displays a talent for plotting and compelling narrative I have not met in any other contemporary writer. Its why it had to be the hardback rather than waiting for the paperback…..
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Gridlinked by Neal Asher. Science Fiction 9/10
Books By bookworm on 1/30/2007 11:26 AM
Neal Asher’s Sci Fi novel, Gridlinked [ISBN 0 330 48433 8] is very nicely put together, the plot coherent and the imagined world structured and interesting (without too many cheats) – the narrative builds suspense throughout the book and the characterisations of the humans at least, pretty rounded for a sci fi book.
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The Affirmation by Christopher Priest. Science Fiction 6/10
Books By bookworm on 1/28/2007 2:22 PM
Christopher Priest’s Sci fi novel The Affirmation [ISBN 0 575 04283] is addictive without being a good read – the reader is drawn into finding out what is happening and after reading the book blurbs again realises that this is a view into the voices of madness, of an introduction to the other worlds of schizophrenia. So the book is interesting without being a particularly good read, if you can follow me.
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Woken Furies by Richard Morgan. Science Fiction 7/10
Books By bookworm on 1/27/2007 10:43 AM
Richard Morgan’s Woken Furies [ISBN 0 575 07325 X] is a big sci fi novel, and in this lies my problem with it. It is complex and dense with a convoluted story line, which means that every time you put it down and pick it up again, your eyes glaze for a while and you struggle to make sense like someone just wakened from cryostasis. I only managed to keep going by trekking over the past chapter until light dawned. Having said that this novel is sneakily good
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The Best Revenge by Stephen White. Crime thriller 9/10
Books By bookworm on 1/26/2007 1:01 PM
This story, The Best Revenge, is the second in the Stephen White Omnibus Edition [ISBN0 7515 3788 8] and is equally as good as the first. The plot sucks you in and keeps you guessing right up to the end, and the narrative is cleverly crafted to maximise suspense and keep the reader engaged. The characters are very well drawn: again, the psychiatrist hero is not the usual know all perfection and the cast are quite rounded for this kind of action thriller
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Warning Signs by Stephen White. Crime fiction 9/10
Books By bookworm on 1/25/2007 6:25 PM
Warning Signs by Stephen White is one of the two stories in my copy of a Stephen White Omnibus [ISBN 0 7515 3788 8] and is an excellent read. For a thriller the plot is of the first order and the narrative peels interesting clues and action throughout the book. Though the psychiatrist, the central character is a bit of a wimp, his hesitations, mistakes and self-analysis serve to focus and illuminate the plot and on-going action, and is the anchor to the story
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S is for Silence by Sue Grafton. Superior Crime fiction 10/10
Books By bookworm on 1/24/2007 9:33 AM
Ever since I found the alphabet series of Sue Grafton I have been a fan, and she gets better with each novel. S is for Silence [ISBN 0 330 43888 3] is very good indeed. You’d think that given this is a series with the same PI that she would begin to feel repetitive, thin and stale. Not so, the plot is tight and sharp, the narrative excellently flowing and suspenseful and the characters seem more real as each book comes. Sue Grafton comes in my top 10 of crime fiction writers
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By the Light of my Father’s Smile by Alice Walker. Literary Fiction 5/10
Books By bookworm on 1/23/2007 2:40 PM
Alice Walker’s By the Light of my Father’s Smile [CN 2633] is one of those literary fiction novels where the author is vaguely experimental in form, (I would unkindly call this “being too clever”) and this adventure into the novel (bad pun) detracting from some underlying interesting ideas about relationships. The jacket blurb is full of “celebration of …spirituality… crossing conventional borders …denied sexuality leading to loss of …original self”. The language is pseudo-north American language of therapy, hiding a novel whose major claim to interest is a heavy upfront titillation of women’s lovemaking.
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Split Second by Alex Cava. Crime thriller 6/10
Books By bookworm on 1/22/2007 12:44 PM
Alex Cava’s crime thriller Split Second [ISBN 0 7783 0105 2] is uncannily so like Patricia Cornwell that I could swear they are both using the same Plots-r-us ideas. The heroine is being followed about by a past protagonist (so very familiar). The plot is tired and as each book comes it stretches our belief more and more. The narrative is fast and pacy and, like with Cornwell, doesn’t allow any of the promising love interest to develop (only in these novels are their wonderful and perfect men willing to wait forever being understanding whilst the women says “I’m not ready yet”).
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The Shift by George Foy. Science Fiction 7/10.
Books By bookworm on 1/20/2007 2:26 PM
I liked George Foy’s The Shift [ISBN 0 553 50611 0] a great deal, but it did tail off towards the end – its hard to control this when the plot leads into more and more bizarre avenues and the author can barely keep it stapled together with the preceding chapters. The idea of virtual reality is already here, but Foy extrapolates into a future where people can participate in their own individual soap. The narrative in pacy and the suspense builds well throughout the book – it only really comes a little unglued in the later stages
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The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo. Booker shortlist 1991, Literary Fiction 4/10
Books By bookworm on 1/19/2007 9:19 AM
Timothy Mo’s The Redundancy of Courage [ISBN 0 09 989060 7] is interesting but not powerful – it is typical of the Booker lists of the early 90s where anything illuminating the lives of people as they live through atrocities in relatively unknown places in the world becomes automatically great fiction. However, interesting though it is, and even though Tariq Ali thought it “brilliant” and written with “precision and tenderness” I still cannot find many good things to say about it
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Necropolis by Tim Waggoner. Science Fiction 6/10
Books By bookworm on 1/18/2007 10:45 AM
Tim Waggoner’s Necropolis [ISBN 1 59414 140 1] is good – in fact very good indeed in parts – the imagination and ideas are quite exceptional – but after engaging you at the outset the suspense keeps slipping somehow. The plot is, like many science fantasies, full of cheating bits where stuff you don’t know just happens to help the hero out of a tight spot (even in sci fi I feel there should be some consistency and fit in with the overall “rules” set by the author)
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Trace by Patricia Cornwell. Crime fiction thriller 5/10
Books By bookworm on 1/17/2007 1:29 PM
Patricia Cornwell’s crime fiction book Trace [ISBN 0 7515 3077 8] is yet another Kay Scarpetta and sidekick Marino novel. The stories have become the most strange, violent and almost absurd string of obscurely connected crimes where serial killers spend their time targeting Scarpetta herself. The clever and unusual plots of the early novels are still there – but are exactly the same and there are the same strange sociopaths surrounding her as in the first books where this was still n
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The Last Juror by John Grisham. Courtroom drama/ fiction 5/10
Books By bookworm on 1/16/2007 10:48 AM
John Grisham’s The Last Juror [ISBN 0 09 94515 6] was disappointing to me (though probably not for Grisham aficionados). Though context and characterisation was good, the overall plot and story held few surprises and altogether the amount of cloying sentiment(as opposed to authentic-feeling emotion) quite irritating. Its billed as a thriller, but doesn’t work for me. Its not that there are grim bits, but there is little overall suspense as it is too easy to anticipate future action all through the book.
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A Viking Voyage by W.Hodding Carter. Non-fiction travel adventure 7/10
Books By bookworm on 1/15/2007 9:27 AM
W. Hodding Carter’s A Viking Voyage [ISBN 0 091 87916 7] is the idiosyncratic story of the re-creation of a Viking Voyage from Greenland to North America. The story is told from the first crazy idea to the build of the boat and selection of the crew, the research and problems of identifying places mentioned in the Icelandic Sagas. However, it is the details of the actual voyage in an open boat using sail and oars by around ten men (the crew changed partially from year 1 to year 2).
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Kiln People by David Brin. Science Fiction 6/10
Books By bookworm on 1/14/2007 10:04 AM
David Brin’s Kiln People [ ISBN0 765 34261 8] starts off really well – an intriguing concept well introduced – with a thoughtful slant on several human issues – but the complexity of the plot and the multiple narratives that bud off in the second half of the book make it quite hard reading towards the end
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The Triumph of the Sun by Wilbur Smith. Historical novel 8/10
Books By bookworm on 1/13/2007 1:49 PM
Wilbur Smith’s novel The Triumph of the Sun [Hardback ISBN 1 4050 0570 X] is an excellent story written around the siege of Khartoum in 1884, when General Gordon faces the new religious leader the Mahdi. The story is a readable romanticised and sanitised view of the troubles but is a good read and with plenty of authentic historical context and setting. The main characters are, as usual, attractive and suitably masculine men and feminine women, and the ending is pretty happy (which I rather like though in “literature” it appears to be frowned on
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A Season for the Dead by David Hewson. Crime fiction 10/10
Books By bookworm on 1/12/2007 9:35 AM
A Season for the Dead [ISBN 0 330 49363 9] is David Hewson’s first book in the detective series set in Rome, and though I read it after his more recent ones (see other blogs) I feel this is probably the best. The plot is a little stretched, but a great deal less so than most modern crime fiction, and the narrative beautifully organised to not only prepare a breathtakingly realistic background in Rome, with well-rounded and yet constantly developing characters, and then dropping the bombshells of bizarre and puzzling murders that keep the reader gripped and guessing quite relentlessly throughout the book to its climax.
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Any Human Heart by William Boyd. Literary fiction 7/10
Books By bookworm on 1/11/2007 2:43 PM
William Boyd’s literary fiction novel Any Human Heart is a fictional autobiography in the form of journals written over a lifetime. It is broad in scope, sensitive with enough interest to keep the reader engaged, but, only just. It is a most substantial book and for long sections there is little overt “action” though the inner thoughts of the hero and the authentic feel of the context make it work
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The Vorpal Blade by Colin Forbes. Adventure mystery 5/10
Books By bookworm on 1/9/2007 10:20 AM
The Vorpal Blade by Colin Forbes [ISBN 0 7434 4035 8] amazes me, not because it is good – the title is far the cleverest part of it – but because it is so poor – and yet lots of people seem to like this simplistic stuff. The plot is remarkable for nothing more than a demonstration of how serial murders can go on for all the book, with the same characters trailing about (and I mean randomly trailing over Europe and we never find out why) but with no clues whatsoever of any use.
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The Devil’s Feather by Minette Walters. Crime thriller 9/10
Books By bookworm on 1/8/2007 12:21 PM
This is the second time I have read Minette Walters The Devil’s Feather [ISBN 0 330 43648 1] and its just as good on the second reading as the first – few novels can stand a re-read, but this is one of them. The plot is pretty straightforward – though cleverly conceived as all Walter’s books are, and the narrative clean and pacy. The book is full of quirky characters with the unwilling heroine particularly well drawn.
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The Red Room by Nicci French. Crime thriller 9/10
Books By bookworm on 1/7/2007 2:28 PM
Nicci French’s The Red Room [ISBN 0 71814 387 6] is an excellent thriller written by an increasingly accomplished crime writer. The plot is well set up with a range of possibilities, all of which are carried through most of the book, and the narrative, written from the viewpoint of a recently-attacked psychotherapist is suitably tentative and yet sensitive and rational. Characters include a number of antisocial folks that are yet painted with insight and understanding, not falling into the trap of having goodies and baddies, but human beings with frailties, which is much more interesting.
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Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Suspicion by Mike McQuay. Science Fiction 6/10
Books By bookworm on 1/5/2007 10:39 AM
Suspicion by Mike McQuay [ISBN 0 7434 7911 4] is the second one of an “epic” series riding on the back of (the book blurb calls it “evolving from”) Asimov’s Robot City ideas, and though indeed complete in itself feels very much as if you started the book part way and stopped before the story was finished. However, the plot is quite sticky in that the first chapter sets up a series of problems that the reader becomes involved in wanting an explanation.
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Resistance by Anita Shreve. Literary fiction 7/10
Books By bookworm on 1/4/2007 3:19 PM
Anita Shreve’s novel Resistance [ISBN 0 349 10728 9] is an interesting, sensitively written story, illuminating a soon-to-be-forgotten part of the second world war – the work of the Belgian resistance – in a realistic and yet almost romantic way. It is easy to read and even though it covers shocking happenings, it does so in such a way to emphasise understanding humanity and not lauding violence. The story centres on Claire Dussois, the wife of a member of the Resistance in German-occupied Belgium in 1943
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Caught in the Light by Robert Goddard. Mystery supernatural type thriller 6/10
Books By bookworm on 1/1/2007 1:10 PM
Robert Goddard’s Caught in the Light [ISBN 0 552 14597 1] has all the elements of a brilliant thriller – a puzzling plot, interesting dual narratives of past and present and a strange romance – but at times it is just too clever for its own good. The plot is woven with so many subtle red herrings that the reader often has a problem remembering which bit is to be taken notice of – which is fine unless, as in this case, the story gets so bizarre it loses its attractiveness
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell. Literary mystery 5/10
Books By bookworm on 12/30/2006 1:59 PM
Maggie O’Farrell’s The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox [CN 147586] is a pretty watery story about Esme, released to her niece from an “insane asylum” after 60 years because it is closing down. Her niece, Iris, has been unaware of her existence as she had been airbrushed from her family’s history
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Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon. Crime fiction 10/10
Books By bookworm on 12/28/2006 9:53 AM
Donna Leon’s Death at La Fenice [ISBN 0 09 946936 7] is one of the novels in the series featuring Commisario Guido Brunetti, and based in Venice. Like all these novels this has an amazing, authentic and sympathetic sense of place; the plot though overtly simple allows for the psychological relationships of the characters to be explored – Leon’s forte
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Gone by Lisa Gardner. Crime thriller 7/10
Books By bookworm on 12/27/2006 2:19 PM
Lisa Gardner’s novel Gone [ISBN 0 7528 7808 5] is agonisingly suspenseful – in fact the time it takes to move action along is equally agonising and I found, quite irritating. The plot is well conceived, though there is some cheating in the narrative, where the whodidit is deliberately and misleadingly hidden and down played in the first half of the book and then pulled out like a rabbit in a hat near the end
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The Winner by David Baldacci Crime thriller 9/10
Books By bookworm on 12/23/2006 3:00 PM
David Baldacci’s novel The Winner [ISBN 0 330 41966] is the best book I’ve read for a while. The plot is so very clever – its set up for surprises and they arrive unexpectedly and shockingly at times. It’s a well-designed narrative that pulls the reader along through what is quite a dense book, and though the ending is entirely appropriate I had to knock one mark off my ten for a slightly pedestrian denouement.
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Act of Violence by Margaret Yorke. Crime thriller 7/10
Books By bookworm on 12/20/2006 4:13 PM
Margaret Yorke’s novel Act of Violence [ISBN 0 7515 2024 1] is overall not a bad read. Two stories are followed in the plot, one past murder and one current that are quite strategically spot welded together in odd places. The narrative sets up a kind of low-level brooding menace that continues through the book and the characterisations are pretty good, though they are polarised between goodies and baddies
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The Tin Man by Dale Brown . Military adventure.crime thriller 5/10
Books By bookworm on 12/18/2006 8:08 PM
Dale Brown’s The Tin Man [ISBN 0 00 651180 5] is a Tom Clancy type novel. This boys own all adventure exploding action stiff upper lip military movie script for actors with solid bone between their ears and lots of brawn and few words is not my scene at all. The military science is authentic and the science seems at the very least, plausible, but it wouldn’t make good science fiction either because of the lack of sophistication of the political background
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A party in San Niccolo by Christobel Kent. Literary Murder mystery 10/10
Books By bookworm on 12/16/2006 8:26 PM
Christobel Kent’s A Party in San Niccolo [ISBN 0 141 01271 4] is the first book of a new author – and it is exceptionally good. It has a vibrant, authentic Florentine background together with a terrific plot, and very well drawn characters that engage the reader in their stories. The story covers the week of a visit of Gina (married with 3 young children) who is visiting Florence to give her a break, staying at her friend Jane’s cookery school (ex schoolfriend of Jane) where she lives with her husband Niccolo a famous architect.
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Never Go Back by Robert Goddard. Murder mystery 10/10
Books By bookworm on 12/14/2006 2:24 PM
Robert Goddard’s novel Never Go Back [ISBN 0 552 15211 0] is an excellent read. I must confess I have come to really appreciate Goddard’s superb plots and sneaky narratives and therefore am prepared to overlook any minor faults – though they were few in this book. The plot is clever, the narrative set up with an initial mystery that takes the whole book to unravel – characters are a little two dimensional but then some of them aren’t around long enough to need a full resume.
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Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen. Comedy crime thriller 7/10
Books By bookworm on 12/13/2006 8:25 PM
Carl Hiaason’s Skinny Dip [ISBN 0 593 05373 7] is deceptively effortlessly amusing throughout but yet having an intriguing enough plot and cracking narrative to grip the reader as for any more seriously-focused novel. Its good reading, and though I have read it before, it was a pleasure to read again – the funniest bits are still as amusing the second time round.
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Death Dance by Linda Fairstein. Crime thriller 7/10
Books By bookworm on 12/12/2006 7:29 PM
Linda Fairstein’s Death Dance [ISBN 0 7515 3571 0] is a good read even though some bits you have to grit and plough through. The plot is up and down, but not particularly guessable because the who did it is pretty low-key in the narrative. The narrative starts really well, but then wanders a little from story to story – and the on-going saga of
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Nine Lives by Frank Lean. Crime Fiction 7/10
Books By bookworm on 11/28/2006 6:05 PM
Frank Lean’s Nine Lives [ISBN 0 7493 1679 9] is another case by the Manchester Detective Dave Cunane. Overall its rather too clever for its own good, the twists and turns of the plot were so numerous the reader gets left behind if the book gets put down for a minute. However, the plot is not bad if not entirely believable (!) but in crime fiction one rarely worries about reality. The narrative zips about so one is aware of many threads and concurrent action that at some time will be knit together
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Long Lost by David Morrell. Mystery thriller 8/10
Books By bookworm on 11/27/2006 1:36 PM
David Morell’s thriller Long Lost [ISBN 0 7553 3493 0] is a nail biting read. The plot is tight and the narrative is a masterful example of fast-moving, well-planned suspense building up to a heart-stopping climax – the characterisations aren’t brilliant, but drawn well enough to support the plot.
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Just a Corpse at Twilight by Janwillem Van de Wetering. Idiosyncratic Eurocrime 6/10
Books By bookworm on 11/23/2006 11:20 AM
Janwillem Van de Wetering’s novel Just a Corpse at Twilight [ISBN 1 56947 016 2} is a quite late is his series of his Grijpstra and DeGier mysteries – where the two policemen are now retired (supposedly on the profits from crime they found). The book is idiosyncratic, to say the least – the plot is not particularly strong, and the strange behaviours of his ex-policemen are even more strange than I remember from his last novel.
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Death of a Dutchman by Magdalen Nabb. Mystery crime fiction 8/10
Books By bookworm on 11/22/2006 1:24 PM
Magdalen Nabb’s Death of a Dutchman [ISBN 0 09 848991 0] is a quite early book (written in 1982) in her Marshal Guarnaccia series, and is as pleasurable to read as the others in the series I have read. Wonderfully atmospheric, set in Florence, Guarnaccia is a Marshal in the Carabinieri –(though the intricacies of the roles of the different police forces escape me, it does mean that he is not able to investigate some crimes) –
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Midas by Russell Andrews. Political conspiracy thriller 7/10
Books By bookworm on 11/18/2006 3:16 PM
Russell Andrews’ political thriller Midas [ISBN 0 7517 3466 8] is really quite a good read if you can suspend your disbelief at some of the devices he uses to solve his plot problems – it’s a brilliant way of dealing with stuff you don’t understand yourself. The plot, given my provisos, is OK, up to date Al Qeda lookalike, deep and dark machinations led by don’t have a clue until near the end folks.
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Almost Blue by Carlo Lucarelli . Eurocrime 10/10
Books By bookworm on 11/16/2006 1:52 PM
Carlo Lucarelli’s thriller Almost Blue, translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky [ISBN 0 099 45943 4] is so good I didn’t want to finish it. It is also so scary that I left it at the tension point to leave for the next day – something I rarely do. This was his first novel to be translated into English, but I bet it will be one of many - I have read at least one other.
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Dead Simple by Peter James. Mystery/crime thriller 6/10
Books By bookworm on 11/13/2006 9:01 PM
Peter James’s novel Dead Simple [ISBN 1 4050 5163 9] has a series of excellent ideas – good plot, good beginning, suspenseful and engaging narrative, thrilling action – but I have to say that altogether they just didn’t work for me. The action seemed to stall and take too long to get going, and it was easy to just get bored and wish something would happen whether positive or negative. The ending is pretty well conceived but by the time I got to it I didn’t appreciate it as much as I would have done with a much slicker and tauter narrative.
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Internal Affair by Marie Ferrarella. Romantic Crime fiction 7/10
Books By bookworm on 11/10/2006 1:40 PM
Marie Ferrarella’s novel Internal Affair [ISBN 0 373 60289 8] is from the Tami Hoag & Nora Robb school of titillating crime fiction. You know the drill: strong silent male, handsome but dismissive of heroine who is devastatingly blonde or similar, intelligent, and beddable. Hero and heroine have to work together to solve crime(s) and hero spurns heroine because of deep wounds to his psyche. Until at some stage he gives in and fireworks result (this is lucky because by then the reader is getting browned off waiting for it to happen and then the book can continue)
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The Gardens of the Dead by William Brodrick Mystery thriller 6/10
Books By bookworm on 11/9/2006 12:24 PM
William Brodrick is author of the Sixth Lamentation bestseller, though this novel, The Gardens of the Dead [ISBN 0 316-72466 –1] is not really in the same class (but I didn’t rate that too highly anyway !) The plot is very convoluted, and just when you think you are beginning to understand what is happening, things change again. This is usually a really good feature, but the information being revealed at each stage is pretty trivial –and what’s more, designed to put you off and delay you, not to tempt and interest the reader
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P is for Peril by Sue Grafton. Crime thriller 8/10
Books By bookworm on 11/8/2006 2:35 PM
Another in Sue Grafton’s consistently excellent alphabet crime series, P is for Peril [ISBN 0 330 37196 7] is as good as the rest. In fact, I think its probably one of the best ones. The plot is deceptively simple, but it has many clever twists and turns, characterisations of the PI and friends continue to be pleasurably constant book to book, and age and develop beautifully, whilst the narrative with its cynical humour and brisk lack of sentiment continues to delight
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Half Light by Frances Fyfield. Psychological thriller 3/10
Books By bookworm on 11/7/2006 1:04 PM
Frances Fyfield’s psychological thriller Half Light [ISBN 0 7515 3237 1] was a great disappointment. The plot suffers from too little room for action – or perhaps the narrative is so badly strung together that the movement forward in the plot seems interminable. The strange assortment of unlikeable, mentally unbalanced and selfish characters failed to convince me, and altogether I lost the will to live and had to read the ending so I could finish it.
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lost boy lost girl by Peter Straub. Supernatural type thriller 4/10
Books By bookworm on 11/6/2006 12:53 PM
Peter Straub’s supernatural novel lost boy lost girl [ISBN 0 00 714230 7] was a great disappointment to me – not realising his genre (I’m supposing that he regularly puts psychic stuff in his novels) I thought that this was a standard thriller. Its starts fairly well, (though early on there is clear indication of its credentials with a spirit manifestation) though the plot is overall pretty straightforward the narrative is so chopped about in its time frames the reader is always kept wondering exactly when things happened.
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A Walk in the Dark by Gianrico Carofiglio. Eurocrime 8/10
Books By bookworm on 11/3/2006 1:46 PM
Gianrico Carofiglio’s A Walk in the Dark [ISBN 1 904738 17 6] superbly translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis is an atmospheric and sensitive eurocrime novel. The plot is quite simple, but it is the atmospheric and compelling context of the Italian legal system together with the depth of analysis of the characters’ motivations and thoughts, which make this a most pleasurably literate and intelligent read.
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Heartbreaker by Robert Ferrigno. Crime Fiction 7/10
Books By bookworm on 11/2/2006 4:15 PM
Robert Ferrigno’s novel Heartbreaker [ISBN 0 09 945179 4] is a tough, edgy, often violent and quite compelling read, though the primary story of the scary pursuit of the hero does appear to be rather clumsily bolted onto another story with the strangest of circumstances. The narrative is fast and pacy, and if you like a brutal edge to your crime thrillers, this is for you, though to be truthful, I could have done with less of the description and liked the book more
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F is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton. Crime thriller 8/10
Books By bookworm on 11/1/2006 1:17 PM
Continuing my Sue Grafton backlog marathon I’ve been reading F is for Fugitive [ISBN 0 330 44671-1] which has the same kind of plot as the last two (investigation of something that happened many years before along with all the attendant problems) but still appears entirely fresh to this reader, though its much easier to compare when three are read within 4 days.
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