What they say about it Charlie Howard, gentleman thief and famous crime-writer, has gone straight. But holing himself up in a crumbling palazzo in Venice in an attempt to concentrate on his next novel hasn’t got rid of the itch in his fingers. To make matters worse, an Italian beauty has broken into his apartment [...]
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What they say ‘Billingham produces an astonishing final twist to complete his most ambitious and accomplished book.’ (Sunday Telegraph) ‘..a twist that I guarantee even veteran crime fiction aficionados won’t see coming.’ (Evening Herald) What I say To me, the twist in the tale is so obvious I was beginning to doubt myself. This is [...]
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August’s meeting discussed the novel Room by Emma Donoghue. What they say about it “Part childhood adventure story, part adult thriller, Room is above all the most vivid, radiant and beautiful expression of maternal love I have ever read. Emma Donoghue has stared into the abyss, honoured her sources and returned with the literary equivalent [...]
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Blind Eye: Stuart MacBride MacBride does for Krakow and Warsaw tourism what he’s been doing for the granite city of Aberdeen for years in this one. I felt that the story suffered when the setting changed, but it was essential to the plotline and illustrates how gang warfare is going global. As always DI Steel [...]
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The July meeting of the LCRG looked at Jo Nesbø’s hugely successful novel The Snowman. What they say about it The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary [...]
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This month the group read the 2008 Booker prize winner, The White Tiger by Aravid Adiga. Overall the group “really enjoyed this book” , despite “finding a lot of sadness in it.” The story telling was remarkably vivid and one reading group member described it as ”a semi parable”. The following review by Adam Lively from The [...]
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‘Caught’ tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she can’t trust her own instincts about this case or the motives of the people around her. What I say about it I really love Harlan Coben books [...]
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The New Cross Reading Group has now relocated to Wavelengths Library. The July meeting looked at Kate Summerscale’s novel The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. Those who attended the meeting were intrigued by this incredibly detailed consideration of the investigation, made during the 1860s into the murder of a small child which seemed to scandalize the local [...]
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At May’s meeting we discussed The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney. What they say about it 1867, Canada: as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man’s cabin head north towards the forest and the tundra [...]
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What they say about it: Ex fashion model and successful business woman Laura Ayars’ perfect world is shattered at a time which should have been the happiest of her life. On her honeymoon, her sports superstar husband goes for a swim – and never returns. But what has happened to David – can he really [...]
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