Deborah

I always look out for a new Elizabeth George novel and this Inspector Lynley didn't disappoint. As usual, the book was very well researched - so much so, that it was very disturbing in places. The references to a child abduction and murder by children is very upsetting. As the mother of young children when Jamie Bulger was killed many years ago, I was reading these chapters through my fingers and the story flashes back without the reader knowing who's past we are looking into.

I really love Peter James' books, he is one of my favourite authors and find it very pleasing when I read his thrillers as Brighton is my local hunting ground. Once again, his knowledge of the Brighton Police force and their procedures is excellent - I attended a book event with Peter a couple of years ago and know that he shadows the local Police very closely when researching his books and you can tell! Although I didn't want to put the book down - I didn't want to finish it either because I was enjoying the story so much!

Well, a vampire zombie fest is not my normal reading but this is very good. It is a combination of Will Smith's I am Legend and Sean of the Dead (may be I'm a bit cynical but I can see the funny side!), together with some good old blood sucking thrown in to the mix!

Well, where do I start with this one?! The problem for me is that I now picture the characters as the actors who play them in the TV series ‘Wire In The Blood' and because of this I find the idea of Tony and Carol having a relationship highly unlikely; however, if I concentrate on book characters I have built up in my imagination, the suggestion of their closeness is more likely.

Bloodline opens with a prologue following Debbie and Jason, a young mother and her son, running away from someone who has them terrified. Keep this in mind because the same chapter is repeated at the end of the book, viewed through the eyes of Tom Thorne as he watches events unfolding.

I am a real fan of Jonathan Kellerman and over the years I think I've read all of his Alex Delaware novels. For those of you like me, the history of Alex, Milo, Robin and their French bulldogs Spike (now sadly deceased) and Blanche has been a continuous thread throughout the Delaware novels - giving us an insight as to why Milo is the way he is and how Alex and Robin have got to this point in their relationship. (I'm not convinced its going to last this time round, by the way!). ..read more

As the cover says, this is a story about a boy and girl who go missing 16 years apart. The common link is Sarah Finch and we first meet Sarah as a child when her brother disappears. Looking at the story through her childish eyes, and with the use of flashbacks throughout this book we begin to understand the devastation and destruction that such a tragedy can cause to an ordinary family - particularly to Sarah's mother who is a horrible character, but very well written so that you feel great sympathy for her.

A short prologue introduces us to Scott and his wife, as their son dies unexpectedly and unexplained. We then meet the main character, Scott Henderson, again three years later. Scott has turned his back on his once affluent life, divorced and moved to the beach. His life is pretty boring - he gets up, goes to work, goes home, doesn't sleep much and then gets up and goes to work again at a local restaurant - as a waiter and sometimes chef; and although anyone would be screwed up after the death of their child, we learn more about his guilt as the story progresses.

If you like Mills and Boon with some Patricia Cornwall thrown in, then this is a good read for you! Don't be put off by the Prologue which tries too hard to be mysterious - once I got into the first chapter, I couldn't put Karen's book down!