Category: Thriller
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Louise Candlish – Those People
I always forget how much I love a good mystery thriller, and this was just what I needed to entertain me on a rainy saturday afternoon. So fast-paced that I couldn’t put it down and enough twists and turns that it wasn’t predictable (which I hate). In fact, it was quite the opposite of predictable,…
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Claire McGowan – What You Did
Not my usual kind of book, but I got this one for free through the Amazon First Reads program and it kept me going through a long couple of train journeys to London and back. I say not my usual kind of book, I’ve read crime/thrillers before and I usually do find them quite enjoyable,…
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Bill Clinton & James Patterson – The President is Missing
It’s been quite a while since I listened to an audiobook, but over the last week, Cameron and I have been on our anniversary holiday to Scotland which has involved a LOT of driving. Rather than listen to the same music over and over again, we decided that we’d spend the time listening to a…
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Jeanne Ryan – Nerve
I’d been eyeing this film up on Netflix for a while, but hadn’t realised it was based on a book, so when I came across it on my library app I was glad I hadn’t already watched it so I could read it first. Now I’ve read it, I’m not quite so sure I want…
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Marieke Nijkamp – This is Where It Ends
I went into this book with a certain amount of trepidation as I made the mistake of reading the reviews before I started and there were quite a few terrible reviews. But I’d already checked the book out of the virtual library and it was less than 300 pages, so I figured I might as…
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Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train
I can’t believe I’m so far behind the trend on this book. I heard everyone raving about it when it first came out, and I was in the middle of other books so I didn’t read it. Then the film came out, and I still didn’t read it. And by the time I finally got…
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Kate Maruyama – Harrowgate
I’m still undecided what my feelings are towards this book, I can’t really say I loved it, but I didn’t hate it either. I mainly listened to this book as an audio book rather than reading it, which I think added to the experience, it definitely felt like it had more tension. The main character,…
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Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
I’ve been meaning to read this book ever since I found out the film was being released, but other books kept leap-frogging it on my to-read pile, to the point where the film has been and gone and everyone has stopped talking about it and I’ve only just got around to reading it. And now,…
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Iain Banks – The Wasp Factory
If I could have one word to describe this book, it would be weird. Two words? Seriously weird. I was recommended this book by someone I used to work with a few years ago, and I just have never got around to reading it, but I’m now seriously questioning the mental health of that colleague,…
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Claire Kendal – The Book of You
Thrilling, shocking, intense and unrelenting. Once I picked up this book, I couldn’t put it down for fear of not knowing how it would end. Clarissa is a normal 38 year old woman living in Bath. Rafe is not a normal man, he’s got an obsession with Clarissa and he won’t leave her alone. The back-story is…
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Laura Elliot – Stolen Child
This book was a free kindle book downloaded on a impulse and intended as a break from carrying around heavy books like the last 3 Mistborn books I’ve just read. Although it wouldn’t have mattered too much since I’ve pretty much spent my Saturday chilling out and devouring this book. The subject matter is not…
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John L. Betcher – The 19th Element
When I added this book to Goodreads and read the description before I started reading, I convinced myself that it wasn’t my kind of book and that I wasn’t going to like it. A book with terrorists in? Not my cup of tea. But as usual, I was wrong, and I found the book plenty…
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Melissa Foster – Traces of Kara
For about three quarters of this book, I really wasn’t feeling it at all. I hate giving up on books before the end because even if a book is terrible, I need to know how it all ends. Plus, sometimes a book can start off pretty shaky and turn into something amazing. And whereas I…
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Michael Wallace – The Devil’s Deep
This was book 3 in my ‘9 killer thrillers’ set from Amazon, and it was just as enjoyable as the rest, although unlike anything I’ve read before. The plot was very different to the others in the set, not really having anything to do with the police, and having a very strange set of crimes…
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M. J. Rose – The Halo Effect
Morgan Snow is a sex therapist. Cleo is a prostitute, catering for high end clients with a lot of money. Cleo has been seeing Morgan for some time, to try and discuss the problems with the relationship with her fiance, and Morgan has broken the first rule of being a therapist: don’t get personally involved…
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