The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye

The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye   by David Lagercrantz This is number 5 in the Stieg Larsson series that revolves around the life of the anti-heroine, Lizbeth Salander. Lizbeth has found herself in prison and becomes embroiled in defending a young woman who was the victim of an honour killing, losing her […]

Lightening Men

Lightening Men   by Thomas Mullen This is Mullen’s fifth novel, and a real beauty. Set in 1950’s Atlanta, it deals with the violent racism that permeated the entire society, and is very relevant today as neo-Nazism and white supremacism rear their ugly heads in the most public way in the USA. There are a […]

The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old

The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old  by Name Not Revealed If there is one book you should read before the end of the year, then this is it. The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old is an understated masterpiece. Our unlikely hero is eighty-three and a resident of an Amsterdam care […]

Black Widow

Black Widow   by Chris Brookmyre One of the favourite activities of Rebel Voice is learning a little about new places, especially those that are not as widely covered in popular literature. Inverness, in Scotland, is such a place and Black Widow is set there. Sadly, although the city and region make a nice backdrop, […]

The Reason You’re Alive

The Reason You’re Alive   by Matthew Quick This gem of a novel came out of nowhere and landed on my desk, and I’m glad. Vietnam War veteran, David Granger is 68 and has just had his twin removed from his brain, literally. Poor David was said to have absorbed his unfortunate sibling and no one […]

Camino Island

Camino Island   by John Grisham Grisham is a safe pair of hands when it comes to the penning of thrillers. Camino Island is no different. The priceless original manuscripts of F. Scott Fitzgerald have been stolen. Although some of the culprits have been caught, the precious objects remain gone. In steps Elaine, an insurance […]

The Girl With All The Gifts

The Girl With All The Gifts   by M.R. Carey Some of you may be familiar with this story from the movie of the same name starring Sennia Nanua, Gemma Arterton and Paddy Considine. I confess to not having seen it and was oblivious to the story when I first picked it up. What a pleasure […]

Come Sundown

Come Sundown   by Nora Roberts Let me start by stating that I am a fan, in general, of Nora Roberts. I will contain my appreciation for her work to those times when she writes as J.D. Robb and Rebel Voice has already covered such tomes in the Book Review section. Come Sundown is not one […]

UVF – Behind The Mask

UVF – Behind The Mask   by Aaron Edwards This is an in-depth examination of the British Unionist terrorist group known as the Ulster Volunteer Force who carried out a campaign of murder and sectarian violence in the Occupied Six Counties of Ireland over the course of more than 40 years. At time of writing, […]

Starfire

Starfire   by Dale Brown CAUTION: THIS BOOK IS TOXIC In the author’s bio, included at the start of this book, it states, ‘Dale, his wife… and son… live near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where he enjoys flying his own private jet, a Grumman Gulfstream II.’ So to begin, the author felt it necessary that we know […]

The Cross

The Cross    by Scott G. Mariani This is a vampire tale like so many that exist out there in the dark and murky world of the parasitic blood-sucker. They could have called it the House of Lords. Although the second in a series, The Cross can be read as a stand-alone book (as I […]

Off The Grid

Off The Grid   by C.J. Box This is yet another in the Joe Pickett/Nate Romanowski series and is more of the same fare, which is to say, good enough stuff in its own way. In Off The Grid, we find Nate (former Special Ops) still on the run from the Feds, at least that […]