Sunday 27 February 2022

The Last Guests by J.P.Pomare



JP Pomare has a talent for giving us the thriller we least expect, and The Last Guests is once again an interesting, if somewhat uncomfortable read...


This is an unnerving, character-heavy thriller built upon an all-too-familiar fear of insidious technology...


A paranoid read with a big jolt of unscrupulousness, it will leave you checking your next Air B&B stay for cameras watching you without you knowing it...



The Library Enthusiast on Novel Names...

Wednesday 23 February 2022

The Janes by Louisa Luna


Team Vega and Caplan are back, and once again they give us the whole deal...


..they are smart, funny, thoughtful and perhaps more importantly believable.


Luna gives them a dark case to delve into this time...


...sex-trafficking.
The Janes has plenty of realistic twists and turns, that manage to keep us, the reader guessing...


The Library Enthusiast on the Stages of Reading...

Saturday 19 February 2022

The Unheard by Nicci French



There will always be a spot on my book shelf for a Nicci French tale, this writing duo have always been able to offer us, the reader, tension-filled mysteries and The Unheard is another suspenseful story for us to sink our teeth into...



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Friday 11 February 2022

Beautiful Death by Fiona McIntosh

DCI Jack Hawksworth is a likeable though troubled character and McIntosh is slowly developing his many idiosyncrasies in this 2nd novel...



Once again Hawk has a high-profile case to crack and he has his trusty task force behind him to aid him in his endeavours...

McIntosh takes us from the seedy underbelly of the back streets of London to the scary and dangerous world of the next 'big thing' in modern medicine.


I found it an absorbing and believable crime thriller, oh and that ending Ms McIntosh, bravo!



The Library Enthusiasts Thoughts on when its Hard to Stop Reading...

 

Monday 7 February 2022

Tell Me Lies by J.P.Pomare

 


This is a by the numbers psychological thriller, which revolves around its main character being her own worst enemy, and who seems to constantly miss the signs of where the real threat lies...

...Tell Me Lies has your typical moustache twirling villain and a protagonist who brings her own sins, both new and old, down onto her family.

It is well written and will please us thriller lovers needing a quick fix!


The Library Enthusiast & Toilet Reading...



Wednesday 2 February 2022

The Girl Remains by Katherine Firkin


This latest tale from Firkin is your typical police procedural, and to be honest many of the twists are pretty predictable.


Having said this the enjoyment of choosing to read a procedural is in the seeing how the police get to the solution that the reader has already been given and worked out for themselves. 


I enjoyed the landscapes and communities of the Mornington Peninsula that Firkin chose to locate the action.


The Girl Remains is absorbing and an often clever crime novel.


The Library Enthusiast on Reading...


The Devil Stone by Caro Ramsay

  DCI Caplin is a troubled detective from Glasgow, she is a complex character with family issues and a past that is only hinted at in this, ...