Category: Crime Fiction
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Review – Midnight in Havana by Peggy Blair
Format: Paperback, 352 pages Publisher: Polygon Publication date: 01 July 2013 ISBN: 9781846972348 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “Ricky Ramirez’s parents stood on the other side of the door, speaking in hushed tones with the doctors.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ “In beautiful, crumbling Old Havana, Canadian detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will…
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Review – The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
Format: Paperback, 432 pages Publisher: Penguin Publication date: 29 August 2013 ISBN-13: 9781405911665 Links: Goodreads | Waterstones First line: “It was all because of the Berlin Wall.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ At the heart of The Husband’s Secret is a letter that’s not meant to be read “My darling Cecilia, if you’re reading this, then I’ve died…”…
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Review – The Complaints by Ian Rankin
Format: Paperback, 452 pages Publisher: Orion Publication date: August 5 2010 ISBN-13: 9781409103479 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Waterstones First line: “There was a smattering of applause as Malcolm Fox entered the room.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Nobody likes The Complaints – they’re the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them…
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Review – Never Go Back by Robert Goddard
Format: Paperback, 369 pages Publisher: Corgi ISBN-13: 978-0552152112 Publication date: 6 Nov 2006 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ For a group of ex-comrades, it is to be the reunion to end all reunions: a weekend in the Scottish castle where they were guinea pigs in a psychological experiment many years…
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Review – Davinci Code – Dan Brown
Format: Paperback Publisher: Corgi Publication date: April 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0552149518 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. As…