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I am an English teacher from the Low Countries. Like everyone else I aspire to one day write a Booker Prize Winner, but until then I contend my self with writing bitchy reviews.

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Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood

A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter

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On a sweltering summer afternoon, medical examiner Sara Linton is called in to examine a suspected suicide at the nearby college. With her very pregnant sister in tow, she sets out to examine the body. But then the sister is stabbed and suicide becomes increasingly less likely. Chief of Police Jeffrey Tolliver – Sara’s on again, off again significant other – struggles to make headway into the case. First and foremost in his crosshairs is his former subordinate, Lena Adams. Now working as campus security, Lena – who is as good at getting herself into trouble as she is getting […]

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9/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

Tom Cruise, though? REALLY?

The Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1) by Lee Child

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I hate people who are good at everything.  I mean, doesn’t everyone? They are insufferable, whether or not they’re showing off their skills. And in the case of Jack Reacher, he’s doubly insufferable, because he still manages to be a fuck-up.  In this installment – the first one in a very, very long series – Jack Reacher is arrested on suspicion of murder. Having led a vagabond lifestyle after leaving the army, Reacher, on a whim, decides to get off the bus in the small, idyllic community of Margrave, GA. He soon finds himself involved in a murder case; first, […]

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9/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

Are we the baddies?

The Detective's Daughter by Lesley Thomson

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In 1981, the body of young mother Kate Rokesmith is found on the banks of the river Thames. The only known witness is her four year old son, Jonathan, who is found huddled underneath a nearby statue. He refuses to speak. The mystery remains unsolved. Years later, the lead detective on the case, now retired, passes away of a heart attack. His daughter Stella, who runs a cleaning company, sets out to clear her father’s house. She comes across the Rokesmith case files and in spite of her intentions to get the whole affair over and done with, she is […]

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8/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |

“Get it, Fred? I’m holey!”

Black December by Scott Hunter

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DCI Brendan Moran, still recovering from a severe car accident the year before, is called out to a Catholic boarding school named Charnford Abbey, where one of the monks has been murdered (I accidentally typed ‘monkeys’ instead of ‘monks’ here, which would have been better). The abbot and other monks seem strangely uncooperative. Soon, another body is found, unravelling the ancient secrets of the closed order and blah blah blah. The story also includes narcolepsy, a group of cunning Romanian squatters, a long-lost love lost to an IRA car bomb, a formerly brilliant surgeon lost to alcoholism, a famous relic, […]

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7/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

Put the Needle on it

Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett

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Like about half the people I know, I have a father with an inexplicable fondness for all things World War II. Particularly films like A Bridge Too Far (which is a total snoozefest), but documentaries, too. Because I’ve spent one too many nights having to watch Hitler’s Secret Love Nest on the Discovery Channel I tend to steer away from the subject, particularly the dry, yes-it-was-all-rather-horrid approach of the British which they employed at least up until the 1980s. I do, however, have a subscription book service, so I sometimes read things I wouldn’t have otherwise picked up. Sometimes this […]

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6/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

A Supremacy of Dunces

The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter

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Here’s my problem with The Last Widow: I wish I could say it was implausible and over the top, and ten years ago it would have been, but unfortunately, it’s not, and that makes it a scary and gripping read, but not a particularly comforting one. There’s nothing in this book that hasn’t happened before, and it’s going to happen again, sooner rather than later. We all know it. Karin Slaughter certainly does; there is a bleak and cynical current that flows through this book; no heroism, but an accurate sense of doom. On a hot summer’s day in Atlanta, […]

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6/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

My original title for this review was “Getting Blingy With It” and I feel like I deserve an award for that or possibly a slap in the face

Cleaning the Gold by Karin Slaughter and Lee Child

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GBI Agent Will Trent is working on a cold case: the murder of a sherrif’s deputy in a small Georgia town, twenty-odd years earlier. His most recent lead sends him undercover at Fort Knox, where his alias Jack Phineas Wolfe (no, really), army dropout, is hired to clean the gold. No, that’s what he’s hired to do. For real. Polish gold bars. This is not a euphemism; he’s inside a room with his suspect, polishing bars and getting sweaty. The suspect, by the way, is Jack Reacher, professional plot device. Will Trent has not seen the Tom Cruise movies so […]

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5/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

Allow, if you’re still alive, six to eight years to arrive

Sunburn by Laura Lippman

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There’s something about a noir novel with the word ‘sun’ in its title. It’s coming to me now. Wait. It’s almost there. … Nope, it’s gone now. Anyway. It’s 1994. Two attractive strangers walk into a sleepy Delaware town. She is Polly, a redhead with a sunburn, who has just left her husband and three year old daughter; he is Adam, a PI, looking for a woman once known as Pauline. They meet in the town’s only bar. She finds work as a waitress, he as a cook. They fall in love. There’s an apartment with an iron bed and […]

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5/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |


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