Allison & Busby

Another book in the Victorian Railway Series with Inspector Colbeck and Sargeant Leeming.This is the best book that I have read by Edward Marston so far. A very clever plot involving the theft of a Silver Locomotive Coffee Pot and the murder of a young man.

The first book in the Victorian Railway Series, with Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sargeant Victor Leeming, who are investigating the derailing of a train and a badly beaten up Driver and Fireman.

The second book in the Restoration series,with Christopher Redmayne the Architect and the deeply religous
constable Jonathon Bale.The plot revolves around the abduction of an actress called Harriet Gower who happens
to be one of the Kings favourite ladies.

My favourite part of the book is about going to the Theatre.Today it would be like going to a foot ball match.The Gentry would have been in the Gallery,but the rabble who were in the Pitts were fighting and drinking and throwing things onto the stage,it must have been quite an experience.

This is the first book in the Restoration series.The main characters are Christopher Redmayne who is a struggling young architect and Jonathan Bale who is a strict Purtian,it will be very interesting to see how this relationship develops in the following books.I am sure that the author has researched his subject well,his vivid descriptions of the Fire and the direction it took,and his knowledge of the buildings that were burnt.

An interesting premise for first time novelist Richard Jay Parker as he explores the seamy world of internet "fame" and stalking. A taut and fast paced thriller, the reader is catapulted into the lies and double crosses. This novel looks at the twin phenomena of serial killers, and the fascination today's society has for them; and the cult of internet stardom, as the protagonist, Leo Sharpe, finds himself embroiled in a world where there is no borders between the killers and the innocent; the sane and the insane.

I love stories that are about families, especially those that have a secret in their past and skeletons in the cupboard.  This is a great book for just that. As the end of the war rolls on we meet three families, the Bennetts whose dad was found to be injured and also Clara O'Toole who has lost her dad, the third family will come in at a later point, that of the Bennett's inlaws.

In 1950's America, in a small self-contained multi-national immigrant community, a girl of tender age, Irene, was murdered. In school, at home and in the community the murder was thereafter never mentioned. This true account is narrated from the viewpoint of the author, a class mate of the murdered girl. Now an adult, Mary-Ann relives her childhood with her generous, capable and caring father, intelligent and fragile mother, and her autistic special needs savant elder brother, Tyler.

This is the first D I Priest novel that I have come across.  I love crime fiction and this has certainly been a beauty of a book to read.

When I saw the title I thought it was a printing error Grief Encounters as opposed to brief encounters, but know it is definitely Grief Encounters and what encounters they are.

This book tells of the life of Mary-Ann Tyrone Smith who grew up in small town America in the 1950's, with the life of her family and the problems that don't make life easy growing up.

The twists and turns in this book are really surprising and as the reader you wonder what will  come out of the page and happen next. ..read more