Bantam

Another gripping thriller form Gerritsen. Again we join Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles as they investigate a series of killings in Chinatown, which seem to be connected to a murder-suicide 19 years earlier, and a series of missing girls. The main problem is that the present day killer seems to be undetectable - no evidence, never caught on cameras, and with animal fast reflexes.

However, some people aren't happy about a 19 year old case being reopened, and as they get nearer to the truth, the search has devastating consequences.

Having watched Ina Garten on her Barefoot Contessa shows on the Food Network channel, and very much enjoyed her laid back approach to cooking, it was with great pleasure that I opened this book, to be greeted with the simple sumptuousness of the food photography that really entices me to want to try each and every recipe.

Although I started off a little confused as this is the end of a series, I soon caught up with what was happening. The characters and story were easy to follow, however it became a little frustrating towards then end, when it became obvious what was happening, but the characters still had no idea what was going on. But this may be because I am a little older than the target age group, and so cottoned on to the plot a little quicker.

If you've not read the previous 'Merry Gentry' books in this series, you'll probably feel very lost with Swallowing Darkness. Previous story arcs run riot through the new book, especially as it starts off with Merry in hospital after being raped by her Uncle. L. K. Hamilton glosses over the rape very quickly as Merry seems to have/show no trauma, which seems.... Odd!! But anywho... The plot is simple, Merry's guards are being plotted against.. the 'let's kill them' kind of plot and inbetween the sexual exploits and seelie/unseelie/goblin hit-men, there really is little to go on, oh.. ..read more

This is an interesting and fascinating book about the lives of the brilliant Italian Guiglielmo Marconi and Doctor Harvey Crippen.

I like the way the author combines the two plots and his detailed descriptions of life in America and London at the beginning of the 20th century. There is a wealth of information in this book and I learnt a great deal about Wireless Telgraphy and the world wide race to become the first person to use it successfully.

Are you a Glee fan - I certainly am - I love the shows with their deep felt story lines, from issues dealing with being Gay to relationship problems and all inbetween. Plus the many songs that are sung complete with chorography!

This book gives all the behind the scene gossip of all the cast with their characters plus as a bonus there is a fairly large wall poster at the back of the book. Definitely a book to recommend for Glee fans.

What can I say about a book that is more than superlative! Necklace of the Gods is an extraordinary book that weaves dragons and a mythological story around a very young woman, and sets it in the Chinese culture of many centuries ago. Brilliant! But Alison Goodman made us wait 3 years for this most thrilling and dramatic book - for us to find out what happened to all the people from The Two Pearls of Wisdom .

This is the first of the books written solely by Todd McCaffrey that i have read. I am not sure if it the influence from his mother or the work of the editing team that has produced a book as close in style of writing to the original dragon books by Anne McCaffrey. The story is well written and rounded with very complex charactors that grow all the way through the story. ..read more

This is a great book, well written, entertaining and informative. Inspired by actual events, it is a love story set in Japan in the 1860s, when the country was emerging from isolation and suffering from civil war.

Through the main male character Yozo, recently returned from Europe with a massive battleship ordered by the shogun, we are introduced to the conflict and politics between the Imperial forces in the south and the shoguns of the north. The female lead is Hana, fleeing for her life from the northerners into the Yoshiwara, the Nightless City of courtesans and brothels.

This book updates all other previous research on the Shroud. Ian wilson has written an extraodinary account
tracing the Shroud from where it was laid in the tomb until the present day.

Although there are many factors relating to archaeology,the historical side of it, and the religious angle, the reader never feels over awed with facts.