Thriller

This is a very good Norwegian thriller. After a nasty derailment, train passengers are forced to remain in a isolated hotel for a few days while an incredible snow storm rages outside. And then the murders begin. Our main character is retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelsen, more unfriendly than ever now she’s in a wheelchair. […]

Two fourteen year old girls, the popular/bitchy Lisa Bellows and the sensible Meredith Oliver, have the misfortune to be present during an armed robbery at a sandwich shop. Lisa is taken away by the masked gunman, Meredith is not. Still, the trauma of the robbery and the effect it has on Meredith almost tear her […]

You’ve got to love a good bit of Swedish crime fiction, especially when two members of one family go missing within twenty four hours of one another at a family gathering. With believeable characters and loads of snow, Nesser’s writing is good enough to keep you absorbed long after you know what’s happened to both […]

This thriller begins in a promising enough fashion, when a wife sees her husband and his supposed mistress blown up in a car bomb in Paris, but is almost entire spoilt by way too much back story and a ridiculous conclusion. Interesting to learn about Hebridean looms and the material they produce, though.     […]

So French and so chilling. Louise, the nanny of a Parisian couple, seems like she’s too good to be true. And it turns out she is, when one day she kills the two children in her charge. The novel is well written  and immensely readable but there is a coldness at the heart of it that, in […]

Quite a brilliant little thriller. Hawley is a beautiful, compassionate  writer who takes the time to give each of the passengers and crew on a private jet their own background and personality. When the plane plunges into the sea only two people survive and both their lives become far more complex. The evocation of the […]

A very good read about Maud, an old lady with some form of dementia who is convinced Elizabeth is missing. Actually her memories are all mixed up with her sister going missing seventy years before. A compassionate and funny book, well worth a read.

Apparently Aristotle said “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” Well if that play outs it may be bad news for eleven year old Ruby, who arrives in the middle of the night into Cat Lupo’s family. Apparently Ruby is the genetic offspring of Cat’s husband, though Cat was previously unaware of […]