Suicide Club by Rachel Heng It’s New York sometime in the future but it’s not a future that we’d recognize, at least not most of us. Society has evolved into an obsessive embrace of health and beauty. Children are genetically tested and marked after birth. They are sub-100 or above. Those with the higher results […]
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Most people in the western world will have seen the movie of this name. It was released in 1993, directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill and Laura Dern. Interestingly, Spielberg acquired the movie rights to the book for $1.5 million, before it was published. Crichton was […]
Dragon Tears by Dean Koontz In this fast-paced tale we meet Californian police detective, Harry Lyon, and his colleague, the feisty Connie Gullivar. Harry is a tad OCD whereas Connie is not. Yet they seem to complement one another perfectly as they struggle to keep law and order in the city of Irvine. When both […]
Golden Prey by John Sandford Lucas Davenport is better known as the Minnesota BCA detective of previous novels. He’s a tough, no nonsense operator who, due to a successful business that he sold, is also a very wealthy man. In Golden Prey, Davenport has left the BCA and taken a position as a US Deputy […]
Micro by Michael Crichton & Richard Preston Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park fame died in 2008. Micro was published in 2011. Readers could be forgiven for thinking that a seance was used to pen this book. Unfortunately, the truth is more mundane. Crichton was already well forward with the story when he passed on. His […]
Holy Ghost by John Sandford Virgil Flowers is at it again. Everywhere the hippyesque Minnesota BCA detective goes, he finds major trouble. It’s never simple with Virgil. On this occasion he is sent to investigate two shootings in the one-horse town of Wheatfield. No one has died, yet, but the authorities are worried that that […]
Dracul by Dacre Stoker And JD Barker Most avid readers will be aware of the famous novel, Dracula, penned by the Irish author, Bram Stoker and first published in 1897. But how many will know of what prompted Stoker to write his enduring tale? In Dracul, the great-grandnephew of Bram, Dacre Stoker, and his accomplice […]
California Fire And Life by Don Winslow California, what a place! It has scenery, drugs, beautiful women and fine wine. It has it all. There are even some great Irish pubs. It also has Jack Wade, disgraced cop, surf aficionado and investigator for California Fire And Life Insurance. Jack’s cop career went off the rails […]
Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker, creator of Dracula, was born into an Irish Anglican family on 8th November, 1847, at the height of the Irish Famine. His father, also Abraham, was a senior civil servant in Dublin Castle and his mother an early feminist. During his childhood, Bram was stricken with a mystery illness which left him […]
Kindred In Death by JD Robb Lieutenant Eve Dallas is a thirty-something detective with the New York police in the year 2060. It’s as strange future of flying cars, auto-chef machines and fashion straight out of The Hunger Games. When a 16-year-old girl is found raped and brutally murdered, Eve is specifically requested to take […]
The Sex Lives Of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh Prepare yourselves for the ride of a lifetime as the author of Trainspotting and The Blade Artist moves to Miami to wreak havoc among the beautiful people to be found parading their shallow wares in that part of the USA. This is one of the most […]
Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz Bibi Blair had it all going for her, a solid job as an up-and-coming novelist, two loving and supportive parents and a fiance who is a serving Navy Seal. Unfortunately, it all came crashing down when she was diagnosed with a rare and fatal form of brain cancer. Bibi falls […]
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