Djibouti by Elmore Leonard Djibouti is both a nation and capital city on the Horn of Africa. It borders Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia and is a fine setting for this thriller from the well-regarded Elmore Leonard. Dara Barr is an Oscar-winning US documentary maker seeking the next big story. She decides that Somali pirates are […]
The Thrill Of It All by Joseph O’Connor Robbie Goulding is a Hiberno-English teenager in Luton, just outside London, with a normal longing for stardom. He has colourful parents, especially his Irish father, Jimmy, and an older brother with whom he maintains a healthy rivalry based on adoration. It’s when Robbie meets Fran Mulvey, a […]
Women by Charles Bukowski Henry ‘Hank’ Chinaski is an alcoholic writer who maintains a complex relationship with the many women in his life. He’s a highly regarded poet who likes to get drunk and fight with his audiences at readings. He enjoys his literary groupies, often twice in one night and three times on a […]
Nyctophobia by Christopher Fowler Callie is a twenty-six-year-old English architect with some problems. She’s lost her job and her mother is an evil and vindictive banana. But it appears as if all has changed for the better when Callie meets Spanish businessman, Mateo. Although considerably older, and divorced with a nine-year-old daughter, the Andalusian gentleman […]
The Irish fled Ireland for many reasons. Some were dispossessed by rampant colonialism. Some ran from religious persecution. Others saw no chance of a prosperous future at home and so looked at far away fields as being greener. Paisanos is an entertaining journey into the lives of some of those adventurers.
Spandex And The City by Jenny T. Colgan As the name might suggest, this is not a serious book. If you’re after a story about existential issues presented in grey monotones by an austere matron lamenting her lack of sexual conquest in Victorian times as her fleabag cat takes yet another piss on a threadbare […]
When a principled Montana rancher takes on an unscrupulous corporation, Louisiana native, Iry Paret – just released from the state penitentiary – is caught up in the war.
The Dead Zone by Stephen King This classic, by the master horror writer, was first published in 1977 but has aged remarkably well. It’s strange to think that some readers of such fiction today were not even a glint in their sexed-up father’s eye when King penned The Dead Zone. In fact, there may be […]
In The Moon Of The Red Ponies by James Lee Burke Yes, yes, OK, you’re correct. Rebel Voice didn’t stay away from James Lee for long. It’s an addiction and Rebel Voice is currently attending a clinic for Burke junkies. We sit around and discuss who’s best, Robicheaux or Holland. In this novel, we get […]
Sleep Like A Baby by Charlaine Harris Aurora Teagarden is a librarian in a small place called Lawrenceton, just outside Atlanta, Georgia. She is a small woman with a big personality and a penchant for finding trouble. In Sleep Like A Baby (2017), Aurora has just given birth to her first child, Sophie, and is […]
Persuader by Lee Child Jack Reacher makes Desperate Dan look like Olive Oil. When Reacher farts, the skies rumble. When Reacher laughs (if ever), hippos and crocs rush to the water. When Reacher brings a woman to orgasm, it registers on the Richter scale and tall buildings tremble. Beady beady, Buck, what a guy! In […]
Savage Run by C.J. Box This is book 2 in the very popular Joe Pickett series about the likeable Wyoming Game Warden, and was first published in 2002. Pickett lives on a federal-owned homestead in the shadow of the Bighorn Mountains with his wife, Mary-Beth and three young daughters. It’s from there that he takes […]
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