I’m a sucker for horror fiction and that was very good novella
I’ve recently read a few books
“Guilty Minds” by Joseph Finder. A PI is hired to help prove that a scandal about a judge isn’t true, and goes on to discover the origin of the story. A decent story, enjoyable.
“A Winter Grave” by Peter May. Set in a mixture of present day and in 2050 after a major weather event, a body is found in ice and a detective is sent to figure out how it got there. A possible accident at a nearby nuclear power plant may be the cause, but the detective starts to encounter resistance to his work by some who would prefer it to be covered up. Another good story, I generally enjoy stuff by Peter May.
“Still Life” by Val McDermid. Karen Pirie of the cold case unit is called in to investigate the discovery of a skeleton in a VW Camper parked in a garage after the owner of the garage is knocked off her bicycle and killed. At the same time she’s looking into an art fraud. Again, a good story by another author I like.
I’ve just finished “The Match” by Harlan Coben. A man enters his details into a DNA matching web site and gets a match with a relation he didn’t know he had, but turns out to be linked to a reality TV star who has just gone missing, and a series of murders linked to web trolls and a shadowy band of vigilantes. A decent story overall, I thought.
I’ve just read “The Best Revenge” by Stephen White. A convicted murderer is released from death row by some new evidence found by an FBI agent after an anonymous tip-off, but encounters some hostility when he is released from prison. He starts to see a psychologist who is also seeing the same FBI agent, and becomes conflicted as their stories start to intertwine.
A good story, I enjoyed the book, I think I’ve read one or more from the same author but a long time ago.
A Promised Land - Barack Obama
I’ve just finished “The Secret of Cold Hill” by Peter James. An artist and his wife move into a newly built house on a new development being built on the site of an old manor house, and fairly quickly things start to go wrong, the locals aren’t welcoming and their only neighbours aren’t very nice. It’s a ghost story, and I must say that if I’d realised that I wouldn’t have bought it. As such I can’t say how good it was, because I just don’t read that genre. I bought it on the strength of the author who also writes the popular police series featuring Roy Grace, which I very much enjoy. So, not for me, but might be good for someone who likes that kind of thing.
I’ve started another of his non-police ones now, let’s hope this doesn’t go the same way.
I’ve just read “I Follow You” by Peter James. A surgeon becomes obsessed with a young woman that he meets by chance, and starts to plan a future for them together even though she’s preparing for the birth of her child and dealing with the effects of an operation on her husband, which was performed by that surgeon. Surgeon gets more and more obsessed and starts to take drastic action.
I liked this more than the previous one, not least because there weren’t any ghosts in it. I did wonder whether these were novels that he’d written prior to getting into his stride with the Roy Grace series, but the references to apps and other modern stuff suggests that isn’t the case, so I’m surprised they are so different. I’ll probably stick to the more well-known series in future. though.
Just finished Irene by Pierre Lemaitre. Good read, but I liked the previous book from the series, Alex, a lot better.
I’ve just read “The Cold Moon” by Jeffery Deaver. A serial killer is targetting seemingly-random victims but leaving a particular type of clock behind with each, and Lincoln Rhyme and the team have to try to track him down, at the same time as quietly looking into a possible case of police corruption which may or may not be linked. A decent story, as these always are.
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“The Revenge Plot” by Jackie Kabler.
Imagine this: one Monday morning, you arrive at your working place to find it completely locked down. All company signs are gone, the key locks have been changed, and your boss isn’t answering his phone. After a couple of freaking days, you discover he wasn’t who he said he was. You land a new job, but you get fired after just a few days. At this point, you might start to think: “What the hell have I done to deserve this?” Perhaps, just perhaps, something you’re not particularly proud of…
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^ Sounds interesting. Have you read any Linwood Barclay? Quite a few of his have a similar structure - something mundane that turns out to not have been true from the beginning, with the rest of the novel unravelling the background to it.
I don’t know him, but I sure will look into it. Any suggestions?
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