Tag Archives: Crime
Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
Synopsis from Amazon: Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they’d become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill – the latest in a string of issues at school – they can’t help but [...]
Share on FacebookThe Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Synopsis from Amazon: The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel’s cousin Franklin Blake, on a troupe of mysterious Indian jugglers, and [...]
Share on FacebookNotes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
Synopsis from Amazon: When the new teacher first arrives, Barbara immediately senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her staff-room colleagues. But Barbara is not the only one to feel that Sheba is special, and before too long Sheba is involved in an illicit affair with a pupil. Barbara finds the [...]
Share on FacebookThe Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Synopsis from Amazon: For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later, [...]
Share on FacebookThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Synopsis by Amazon: Everyone has a dark side. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It seems [...]
Share on FacebookThe Ingenious Edgar Jones by Elizabeth Garner
Synopsis from Amazon: Set in nineteenth-century Oxford, and shot through with a powerful sense of magic, Elizabeth Garner’s new novel will appeal both to fans of historical fiction and to the huge Susanna Clarke/Philip Pullman fanbase. In nineteenth-century Oxford, an extraordinary child is born – Edgar Jones, a porter’s son with a magical talent. Though [...]
Share on FacebookSavage Tide by Glen Chandler
Synopsis from Amazon: This is a Steven Madden mystery. For Steve Madden, Brighton is no longer beaches, fish and chips and amusement arcades. It’s also a place of murder. Estranged from his son and grappling with the jealousy that comes from watching your ex-wife getting closer to another man, his world is thrown into turmoil [...]
Share on FacebookBrighton Rock by Graham Greene
Synopsis from Amazon: A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene’s gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the ‘dangerous edge of [...]
Share on FacebookBones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs
Synopsis from Amazon: Under the microscope, the outer bone surface is a moonscape of craters… The skeleton is that of a young girl, no more than fourteen years old – and forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is struggling to keep her emotions in check. A nagging in her subconscious won’t let up. A memory triggered, [...]
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