THE SUDDEN ARRIVAL OF VIOLENCE Malcolm Mackay Mantle (www.panmacmillan.com) £12.99 He’s touching the front of his coat, feeling the shape of the gun. Should have got rid of it. On any other night, any other job, he would. But this isn’t any other job. This, he intends, will be his last. Calum MacLean is determined […]
Read More THE SUDDEN ARRIVAL OF VIOLENCE by Malcolm MackayEAST OF INNOCENCE David Thorne Corvus (atlantic-books.co.uk) £12.99 It’s an old joke, well-worn. What’s the difference between God and a lawyer? The man sitting across the desk from me, eyes fixed on my face, doesn’t look like he’d appreciate the punch line. Daniel Connell, son of an Essex hard-man, is a big-time lawyer fallen on […]
Read More EAST OF INNOCENCE by David ThorneSAVE YOURSELF Kelly Braffet (www.kellybraffet.com) Corvus (atlantic-books.co.uk) £12.99 When Patrick Cusimano’s father kills a child while driving drunk, Patrick calls the police. The "right thing", morally, isn’t necessarily the right thing for the Cusimano family, and Patrick’s older brother Mike resents him for it. Layla and Verna Elshere are the daughters of a preacher; Layla […]
Read More SAVE YOURSELF by Kelly BraffetGAME Anders de la Motte Translated by Neil Smith Blue Door (www.harpercollins.co.uk/…/blue-door) £7.99 Released 5th December 2013 When Henrik “HP” Pettersson finds a mobile phone on the train his first thought is how much it might fetch if he tried to sell it. The phone receives a message, addressing HP by name, and he starts […]
Read More GAME by Anders de la MotteThanks to those lovely people at Transworld Books, we are celebrating the recent release of Sharon Bolton’s Like This, For Ever by giving away three copies of the book to lucky Reader Dad visitors. This competition is open to UK visitors only. To be in with a chance of winning a copy of this brilliant […]
Read More COMPETITION: Win a Copy of LIKE THIS, FOR EVER by Sharon BoltonLIKE THIS, FOR EVER Sharon Bolton (www.sharonbolton.com) Corgi (www.transworldbooks.co.uk) £6.99 Barney Roberts is 11 years old and obsessed with two things: finding his mother, who walked out on him and his father while Barney was still too young to have much of a memory of her; and understanding the series of murders of five London […]
Read More LIKE THIS, FOR EVER by Sharon BoltonA TAP ON THE WINDOW Linwood Barclay (linwoodbarclay.com) Orion (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £16.99 Heading home from an out-of-town job on a wet and miserable night, Cal Weaver stops at a red light close to Griffon, New York’s local hangout spot. When a teenage girl taps on his window and asks for a lift, Cal knows it’s the […]
Read More A TAP ON THE WINDOW by Linwood BarclayBROKEN ANGELS Graham Masterton (www.grahammasterton.co.uk) Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £16.99 The body of a priest is found in a river just outside Cork. He has been tortured, castrated and bound with harp wire before dying. Detective Superintendent Katie Maguire of the Cork Guardai picks up the case and discovers that the dead priest is one […]
Read More BROKEN ANGELS by Graham MastertonTHE EYRE AFFAIR Jasper Fforde (www.jasperfforde.com) Hodder (www.hodder.co.uk) £7.99 The following review is the first in a series of reviews for the Hodderscape Review Project, a project that I’m very happy and proud to be a part of. Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair, for anyone that has already read it, will seem the obvious choice […]
Read More THE EYRE AFFAIR by Jasper FfordePLAN D Simon Urban (www.simonurban.de/) Translated by Katy Derbyshire Harvill Secker (www.vintage-books.co.uk/about-us/harvill-secker/) £14.99 October, 2011. Much of the gas used by Western Europe comes from Russia, via a pipeline network that runs through the middle of the German Democratic Republic. Weeks before the leaders of the two Germanys are due to come together to discuss […]
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