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Old 29-09-2013, 01:30
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Lisa Gardner - The Neighbour.

A colleague at work has just discovered my penchant for crime books, so has leant me a few
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Old 29-09-2013, 10:18
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Lisa Gardner - The Neighbour.

A colleague at work has just discovered my penchant for crime books, so has leant me a few
I don't think I have read anything of hers. Are you enjoying it?

I'm always on the lookout for new crime authors.
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Old 29-09-2013, 17:47
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I don't think I have read anything of hers. Are you enjoying it?

I'm always on the lookout for new crime authors.
I'm only on chapter three at the minute, but it's reading very similar to Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn at the minute. I'll keep you updated!
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Old 30-09-2013, 10:42
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Until You're Mine by Samantha Hayes,

A totally un put down able thriller... I love this book

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Old 30-09-2013, 11:03
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I've been waiting a few weeks to read the new Kinsey PI novel and just started:

W is for Wasted - Sue Grafton
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Old 30-09-2013, 11:29
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Old 30-09-2013, 11:54
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Until You're Mine by Samantha Hayes,

A totally un put down able thriller... I love this book

Same here I also loved i loved it. Posted a thread about it too.
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Old 30-09-2013, 12:37
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Lisa Jewell- Before I Met You
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Old 30-09-2013, 14:20
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An enjoyable re-read of the Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell.
Whilst I have read all three before,I have never had the convienience of having all three in one huge omnibus edition!
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Old 01-10-2013, 00:54
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Just finished One Step Too Far by Tina Seskis - absolutely brilliant.
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Old 01-10-2013, 08:40
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Stay Close - Harlan Coben
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Old 01-10-2013, 10:37
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Pieces of Modesty. Short stories about Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell
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Old 01-10-2013, 15:07
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Neil Young's autobiography, Waging Heavy Peace. It's pretty cool so far; he's engaging, and it's totally all over the place jumping around in time with little anecdotes and bits about him working on his model train set in between the rock'n'roll stuff.
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Old 01-10-2013, 17:09
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I've started two new books.

The Chessmen by Peter May is the last in his Isle of Lewis trilogy. It's the audiobook version narrated by Peter Forbes.

My Kindle book is The Summer We All Ran Away by Cassandra Parkin. 19 year-old Davey takes a drunken train journey and finds himself on the doorstep of an isolated house in Cornwall. He's taken in by the occupants who are squatters. Thirty years previously the house was owned by burned-out rock star on the brink of a comeback.
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Old 01-10-2013, 17:48
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Two Brothers by Ben Elton. Have read a few of his before but think this is a bit of different genre for him.
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Old 01-10-2013, 17:52
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Old 01-10-2013, 22:49
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Just finished... Before the poison by Peter Robinson.

Through years of success in Hollywood composing music for Oscar-winning films, Chris Lowndes always imagined he would come full circle, home to Yorkshire with his beloved wife Laura. Now he's back in the Yorkshire Dales, but Laura is dead, and Chris needs to make a new life for himself. The isolated house he buys sight unseen should give him the space to come to terms with his grief and the quiet to allow him to work. Kilnsgate House turns out to be rather more than he expected, however. A man died there, sixty years ago. His wife was convicted of murder. And something is pulling Chris deeper and deeper into the story of Grace Elizabeth Fox, who was hanged by the neck until she was dead .

Started to read.... The vows of silence by Susan Hill

In the peaceful cathedral city of Lafferton, a gunman is terrorising young women. What - if anything - links the attacks? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a handgun or do the police have two snipers on their hands?
Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler is in charge of the case, but he is also struggling to deal with a tragedy at the heart of his own family. Two forthcoming events - a local fair and the high-profile cathedral wedding of the Lord Lieutenant's daughter - only add to the pressure...
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Old 02-10-2013, 18:51
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The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes by June Thomson

Just finished it, I think it is authentic Sherlock Holmes overall. The first short story is a bit basic but I think it improves and by the last few short stories they really are excellent authentic Holmes stories. Really impressed and will read the other Holmes books by the author.
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Old 02-10-2013, 20:05
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Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn, I'm jealous of her being able to write like this.
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Old 02-10-2013, 20:33
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Old 02-10-2013, 20:50
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Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings 1914
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The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones. (Not about debunking religion but using the Bible as a hook to discuss scientific subjects such as why the human body is far from a perfect design).
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Old 03-10-2013, 10:16
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The Cry by Helen Fitzgerald

He's gone. And telling the truth won't bring him back...

When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in Australia, it sets off a police investigation that will become a media sensation and dinner-table talk across the world.
An upsetting read so far, not sure that I'll stick with it.
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Old 03-10-2013, 14:00
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Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian
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Old 03-10-2013, 22:05
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I'm reading Cathexis by Josie Clay

You can only get it on Kindle download but some of my friends recommended it so I downloaded the Kindle app on my comp, and this book is fantastic. I really thought I wouldn't enjoy it as the synopsis is really dry, characterless and wordy

But, the book seems to have woken me up a bit. I have been married for 5 years and a stay at home mother for 2, and I had forgotten what some feelings feel like. The character i did not think I would identify with at all, but she is the best of what I was when I was younger. I understand it starts getting really dark, so I am almost frightened to read about the worst of me, if that happens.

Here's an extract posted by the author on facebook:

April escaped down a tunnel of relentless toil and it was in May, a week before my birthday, when the phone drilled rudely into my high. I stared at it stupidly and then at Remy.

“It's probably one of your clients Minsk” she mumbled, too stoned to care. Rolling off the 'sofa that might eat you', I crawled towards the tantrum, hand hovering in spliffy indecision, not sure if I could be coherent, but starved of entertainment. “Might be funny” I thought. “Hello” I said thickly.

“Hi, may I speak to Minette please?” A female voice, breathy, charged with something – nerves, nausea, I couldn't tell.

“Speaking” I slurred. Perhaps this hadn't been such a good idea.

“Hi, it's Nancy Ilarian”. A provocation in the voice.

I knew it was my turn to speak, but kept missing it, like trying to catch a chicken. This imagery made me snort. I could hear her puzzlement. Managing to grasp the chicken, I planted it firmly under my arm.

“Hi Nancy” I said. “Sorry, I'm a bit zonked”.

“Oh, I'm very sorry to have disturbed you” she said.

“No, s'fine” (the chicken was struggling).

She paused. Was it my turn? I noticed the mouthpiece of the phone was filthy.

“I wondered” she continued, “if you had progressed with a design for me?”. My mind spun around a word; what was it now?

“No” I said decisively.

Silence, followed by a fluttering discourse which reminded me of Woodstock berating Snoopy. I looked at the irritable, scrapey lines in the speech bubble, trying to read them as if they were words. I had no clue what she was on about and opted for a pacifying approach.

“You're quite right” I interjected. “I'm sorry, I'll have something for you very soon”. I hoped I was on the right lines. Another hiatus.

“OK, thank you” she said inscrutably. “Take care, Minette”.

I liked the way she said my name, emphasizing the ‘t’ by breathing an e at the end.

“Bubbye Nancy” I said, slipping down a hole. But she was still there and so was I. Why weren't we hanging up in the customary fashion after the sign off? Was she expecting something more?

The receiver clicked.
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Old 05-10-2013, 09:36
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I haven't read a Jack Reacher for a while now, and while this was a cracking read, I'll try not to read it so long next time.
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