Thriller book reviews

2018-03-14 A miserable detective investigates a miserable murder on a miserable island, forcing him to face his miserable childhood while surrounded by miserable people and miserable weather. Much of the story itself was okay, but trying to pin it all on a romance between 6-year olds stretched things a bit thin. It didn’t help that the male lead was and still is a jerk, making... Continue reading

2018-02-11 It isn’t a bad book – but it isn’t concise, either. There’s a scene where the only point that needs to be made is that the main character – Kinsey – isn’t sure whether to attend someone’s funeral or not. It takes *9* pages of chattering with the widow over a cup of tea about their marriage and looking at photos, etc, none of... Continue reading

2018-01-01 Martin M Clark is a brilliant writer, whose Lucas Helath stories are a tribute to 50’s detective fiction. Night Never Ends is the first in the series, and involves a bizarre murder case that only a hardboiled private eye – and a wise-cracking imp only he can see – will be able to solve. It twists and turns and develops like any pro thriller,... Continue reading

2017-07-31 Somewhere between 3.5 to 4 stars. I mostly enjoyed it, but there was an annoyance was the end – I saw the double-bluff twist coming, but the double-double-bluff twist seemed to come out from nowhere with no real foreshadowing. Interesting book, though, and I’ll look out for more from this author. Rating: 4/5 Continue reading

2017-01-29 Nearly didn’t pick it up because of some of the negative Amazon reviews, but so glad I did – one of my favourite modern thrillers. 🙂 Rating: 5/5 Continue reading