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Eventually I may get around to them, but I'm not going to be fanatical about it.
Reposted my review of A Time of Torment because I originally chose the wrong edition, which was also a different publisher. So here's the new link: /review/show...
Diane S ☔ wrote: "Finished The Fire Child 
, a read now on galley./review/show..."
Thanks Diane, I have scooped this one up.
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Thank you to Net Galley, the publishers and the author.
Kindra’s moral compass has never pointed north, but that’s what happens when you’re raised as an assassin . At sixteen, she’s fantastic with a blade, an expert at slipping through the world unnoticed, and trapped in a life she didn’t chose. But nothing in her training prepares her for what happens when her father misses a target.
In the week-long aftermath, Kindra breaks rank for the first time in her life. She steals documents, starts questioning who their client is and why the target needs to die, botches a second hit on her father’s target, and is nearly killed. And that’s before she’s kidnapped by a green-eyed stranger connected to a part of her childhood she’d almost forgotten.
Kindra has to decide who to trust and which side of the battle to fight for. She has to do it fast and she has to be right, because the wrong choice will kill her just when she’s finally found something worth living for.
A difficult book to review, parts of the book I really enjoyed, some parts not very clear to me.
I enjoyed the main characters of Kindra and Dru, great characters, great relationship, with some good characters supporting these main two., with some funny instances.
But lacks history on the main characters, why are they assassins at such a young age, a little far fetched at times.
Two families both full of assassins?
But action scenes were good, then bogged down and a little heavy at times.
Giving the book three stars, but I still like the characters enough to know what happens in Book 2.
Some great bits, some heavy bits !
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Thank you to Net Galley, The publishers and the author for an ARC Copy.
It was the job she had dreamed of since childhood. But on her very first day, when an unnerving encounter drags up memories Sophie Greenwood would rather forget, she wonders if she has made a mistake. A fatal mistake.
What is her ambitious young assistant really up to? And what exactly happened to Sophie’s predecessor? When her husband and daughter are pulled into the nightmare, Sophie is forced to confront the darkest secrets she has carried for years.
As her life begins to fall apart at work and at home, Sophie must race to uncover the truth about her new job…before it kills her.
In his latest psychological thriller, Mark Edwards pushes things to the limit again while drawing the reader into a world of suspense and horror.
What is her ambitious young assistant really up to? And what exactly happened to Sophie’s predecessor? When her husband and daughter are pulled into the nightmare, Sophie is forced to confront the darkest secrets she has carried for years.
As her life begins to fall apart at work and at home, Sophie must race to uncover the truth about her new job…before it kills her.
Sophie Greenwood is looking to get back to work in the highly competitive world of book publishing. Recently hired by Jackdaw Books, Sophie is living her dream, though it does stir up a little unease. Sophie has dreamed of working for Jackdaw since she was a little girl.
As the days go on, things begin happening in the workplace that leave Sophie extremely vulnerable or off her mark, some of which might be tied back to her assistant, Cassie Said.
With a wonderful balance of present and past narratives two stories unfold with tension and chilling suspense.
To me Mark Edwards best book to date, once you start reading, you just cannot stop, and when you cannot wait to get back to your book and read you know it is good.
Fast paced, chilling, gripping and wonderful supporting characters of red herrings.
Full of shocks, twists that were not expected.
A clear four star from me.
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Firstly, thank you to Net Galley, the publishers and the author Robert Ellis.
My first book by this author, but not my last !
Approved this book and decided with the authors comments in the introduction with this book, that you can read number 2 in the series, I agree this book gave me the information I needed to follow this book and pick up from number 1.
Agreed if you can read number one please do. After reading the second one in the series, I'm love this author.
For the past six weeks, LAPD detective Matt Jones has been recovering from the wrong end of a hit man’s bullet. Before he can look for payback, Jones finds himself enlisted in the manhunt for an old foe. Dr. George Baylor, the serial killer who escaped after murdering three coeds in LA, resurfaces on the East Coast. This time, an entire family has been slaughtered in their home outside Philadelphia, and the doctor’s fingerprints are all over the crime scene.
With panic rising, the FBI seeks Jones’s help, and the hunt for this brutal mass killer is on. But so is the hunt for the man who paid to have Jones shot. When a second family is found murdered, the search for the killer becomes frantic, and Jones’s shocking personal history explodes before his eyes. With his two missions welded together as one, Jones enters the madman’s world—a place of unimaginable terror—and hopes that if he survives, he can find his way out.
Seems like Matt is betrayed by everyone he trusts plus everything he believed about his childhood gets called into question. I don’t want to give anything away, so you’ll have to read this book for yourself, which I recommend you do!
The reader will experience such a wide range of emotions - fear, dread, laughter, sadness and shock! . The story is very powerful, the emotions deep, the shock head-shaking and the sadness real, the murders graphic.
Adding some great touches of humour, clever twists, you have a fast paced action crime thriller.
Robert Ellis is a great author, bringing together a perfect crime/detective story with a very nasty serial killer, some very gory murders, some great characters and a very well put together story, with great and clever twists
Now I am adding this author to the list of favourite authors of mine, not bad after one book.
Now will look out for his Lena Gamble books.
Hope that I can persuade the author to do a Q & A's For my group " A Good Thriller"
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Thank you to Net Galley, the publishers and the author for ARC copy of this book.
Mid-December, and Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow. Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to sleep after yet another soul-destroying Internet date – the low murmuring of her police radio her only solace.
Over the airwaves come reports of a missing woman – door ajar, keys and phone left behind, a spatter of blood on the kitchen floor. Manon knows the first 72 hours are critical: you find her, or you look for a body. And as soon as she sees a picture of Edith Hind, a Cambridge post-graduate from a well-connected family, she knows this case will be big.
Is Edith alive or dead? Was her ‘complex love life’ at the heart of her disappearance, as a senior officer tells the increasingly hungry press? And when a body is found, is it the end or only the beginning?
Good points, great detail of the characters and the police procedure, story and plots of all the main characters, as the author narrates the book from different view points.
Bad points, very heavy going, detail to the characters and plots made the book very slow and hard work, lacked the tension and pace that I expected from the many reviews I have read.
Not too many shocks or surprises with the story.
Although I did like the main character Manon.
Three stars from me
Love Robert Dugoni, and this one would make a great series:The 7th Canon
. My review:/review/show...
I have recently read and loved:
The Daemoniac - /review/show...
The Couple Next Door - /review/show...
Holding - /review/show...
As I Descended - /review/show...
Sean wrote: "Thank you to Net Galley, the publishers and the author for ARC copy of this book.
Mid-December, and Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow. Detective Sergean..."
I read this last month, as well. I can't say I was a fan of this one and gave it a 2 stars. I enjoyed reading your thoughts on this :)
Denise Swanson StybrOctober 9 at 8:56am
ATTENTION anyone who reviews books on Amazon that they they receive for free.
As they so often do, Amazon has changed the rules for book reviews. Reviews posted with the wording--I received an advanced copy of this book in "exchange" for an honest review--will be deleted
As per Amazon's new rule, this is the correct wording "I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book."
new wording and cuts out the word "exchange."
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Thanks Net Galley, and the author , and of course the publisher.
A dark, desperate and twisted battle for survival – Absolutely brilliant.
Thanks for auto-approving me to all your books, especially with a BRILLIANT BOOK like this from Will Jordan.
From Marseille to Islamabad at breakneck pace… it’s kill or be killed for Ryan Drake and his team
Ryan Drake, once a decorated field operative, is now wanted for treason. On the run from the CIA’s corrupt Deputy Director Marcus Cain, he has spent the past six months in a remote French safehouse. Drake’s former life seems to be behind him, but the uneasy peace is shattered when Cain moves against him with startling force.
Meanwhile, the war in Afghanistan is faltering in the wake of a devastating suicide attack. Cain though has a plan to find and destroy al-Qaeda’s top commanders. And nobody will stand in his way.
Backed into a corner, Drake turns to the deadly but unpredictable Anya – once Cain’s most promising agent, now his most bitter enemy. With tensions running high and their uneasy alliance threatening to tear itself apart, Drake’s hastily assembled team travels to Pakistan to intercept Cain.
With the fate of the War on Terror hanging in the balance, loyalties are tested and scores settled, as Drake embarks on the fight of his life. Only one side will survive…
This story is full of intrigue, double crossing, treason, fighting and a occasional dash of romance, terrific pace to this book, In fact this book really did remind me of many action books I have read from James Bond to Jason Bourne, only 'Ghost Target' is better.
Tremendous strong leading characters, and the return of another great character from previous a book, compelling, thrilling, enormously entertaining, action packed thriller.
From the bestselling author of Black List and Deception Game, Ghost Target is the sixth Ryan Drake thriller, and an incredible tale of deception, desperation, and ultimate betrayal.
All I can say is "I cannot wait for number seven !!
Five stars as this author matches my favourites of Tom Wood, David Baldacci, Mark Dawson, Mark Greaney.
Well I will be catching up on my sleep now, after quite a few late, late nights.
I just finished The Killing Game
I really liked it. I think it was better than I expected.
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I really liked it. I think it was better than I expected.
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- /review/show... I loved everything about this!
- /review/show... I had a few issues, but overall this is a great read.
Finished
, a really great thriller, still on NG for request I believe :)
Just finished
Me And My Sisters by Sinéad Moriarty a light-hearted and amusing read. /review/show...
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Thank you to Net Galley, the publishers and the author Sharon Bolton.
Firstly I will always be grateful to Sharon Bolton for being the first author to do a Q & A's for my group, when I only had maybe 100 members, now we have just under 4,000.
I have enjoyed Sharon work when I discovered Lacey Flint, a great character and a great series of book.
Here is a stand alone, this is different. The story is about determining the guilt or innocence of a man already sentenced to a lifetime in prison for killing several women.
Hamish was a successful medical doctor who has been convicted of the murder of 3 women because they were fat. There are tales of his less than illustrious past. As a young arrogant medical student at Oxford, Hamish was part of the Fat Club, which comprised a group of his friends.
The main character is the eccentric blue haired Maggie Rose is a celebrated true crime writer and barrister who has successfully freed convicted murderers. She is fragile, vulnerable, indomitable and an independent woman.
A real psychological thriller, with three strong characters, Hamish, Maggie and detective Pete Weston. The characterisations are solid and believable and really draw you in. The story is a complex web which will leave you guessing until the very end. So many twists and turns and a very clever story.
A clear 4.0 to 4.5.
Apologies to Net Galley and the publishers and Sharon for the delay.
I finished Rattle by Fiona Cummins a couple of days ago. I really enjoyed it, it's a great read. I would link to my review but I've no idea how to do it!
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