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Posted by Peter [Blogger] at 31/05/2012 16:16:02
Elizabeth Haynes’ second novel is a taut and gripping murder mystery and introduces us to Genevieve Shipley, a young woman who, as we meet her is enjoying the life she had dreamed of. She is living on a barge at a marina on the river Medway in Kent, working away at decorating and renovating it to her requirements and socialising contentedly with the other 'liveaboard' folk who are moored up nearby. It's an entire world away from her previous lifestyle in London where she worked in a pressurised, constantly demanding sales environment during the day and as a high earning pole dancer (yes really!) in an exclusive gentleman's club at night. As the novel opens, Genevieve is preparing for a boat-warming party that she's hosting that evening and she has invited new friends from the other boats as well as some old friends from her life back in London. But when she makes a horrifying discovery that night (a body washed up right by her barge) the old life she thought she had left behind five months ago intrudes on the new and her hard-earned peace and safety is shattered.
Another superb book by this author, I can’t wait for the next novel!
Tags: Crime/Thrillers
Posted by at 31/05/2012 15:14:10
Based on historical fact this novel is set in 1785, shortly before the French Revolution. Baratte, a young engineer is hired by the King’s officers to take charge of a huge project involving the ancient cemetery next to the church of Les Innocents in Paris. This cemetery was so full and the stench of decay overwhelming that in 1786 the French Government ordered the exhumation of the...
Posted by Peter [Blogger] at 31/05/2012 14:48:44
This novel is set in Narbeth, a small town in South Wales, during 1924. Wilfred Price, the "Purveyor of Superior Funerals" lives with his father, a grave digger, in the place where he has grown up and hopes to make his business a success and become a citizen of some status and standing. When we meet Wilfred, he is having a picnic in the garden with Grace Reece,...
Posted by Peter [Blogger] at 23/05/2012 16:30:07
When Richard finds his neighbour dead, surrounded by images of author and columnist Will Self, little does he know how his life is going to change. He's attempting to write a novel but his anti-pyschotic drugs are dampening his mind. He remembers a card that fell from Sylvie's pocket last time he saw her and follows the clue to discover a cult that worships...
Posted by MK [Blogger] at 14/05/2012 16:32:47
The Misremembered man is not the type of book I would normally read and almost stopped reading it several times but was so glad I didn’t. It is a wonderful story, well written and totally captivating, set in Northern Ireland in the 1970’s.
Lonely bachelor Jamie McCloone’s kind hearted neighbours decide that it is time he found a wife so they place an...
Posted by MK [Blogger] at 14/05/2012 16:18:06
How far would you go to protect the ones you love? Jacob, the son of Boston District Attorney Andy Barbar is accused of murdering his bullying classmate Ben Rifkin, who was stabbed to death near their local school. Their quiet suburban lifestyle suddenly turns into every parent’s worst nightmare.
Landay is a master storyteller who is equally at home recounting the gripping...
