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Birdman by Mo Hayder

May 6, 2022 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Weirdly enough, Goodreads gave me Calvin and Hobbes in their other-readers-also-enjoyed-selection. And I get it. There is never a bad time for Calvin and Hobbes, but I definitely need some eye bleach after this one. London, 1999. During construction work on an empty lot, the dead body of a woman is found. Her body is severely decomposed and it takes the police a while to identify her. More bodies are found. They all belong to strippers, prostitutes, drug addicts – people who are loved by […]

Lost the Plot

Lost by Michael Robotham

April 10, 2022 by Zirza Leave a Comment

On an otherwise unremarkable night, London detective Vincent Ruiz finds himself desperately clinging to a buoy in the river Thames, bleeding out from a brutal gunshot wound to his leg. When he finally wakes up in hospital a few days later his memory of the events leading up to that night are gone. His superiors are pissed at him and all Vince knows is that something went horribly wrong. Why was he in the Thames? Why is his hospital room being guarded? And why was […]

Waif Goodbye

Tooth and Nail (Inspector Rebus #3) by Ian Rankin

February 5, 2022 by Zirza Leave a Comment

London, early 1990s. Women are being attacked on the streets; their throats are slit, they’re stabbed in an unfortunate place and a bite mark is left on their stomachs. The first attack happens on Wolf street and thus the press, with their neverending creativity, dub him the Wolfman. Inspector John Rebus – lapsed Christian, alcoholic in denial, still straddling the line between ‘difficult person’ and ‘asshole’ – is called down to aid the investigation, but by whom? And why? This is a curiously chaotic novel […]

Pandemic Bingo Square: The Therapist

The Therapist by B.A. Paris

October 8, 2021 by msvreadsbooks Leave a Comment

I’m using this as my PANDEMIC bingo square. I’ve read several of B.A. Paris’s books: Behind Closed Doors, The Breakdown, Bring Me Back…. And I generally enjoy them. This one is also generally enjoyable. The plot: Alice and Leo have been dating for a little over a year when they decide to move to The Circle – an exclusive, gated neighborhood in London with 12 houses (kind of like a clock). Alice is surprised when Leo gets the house for a very reasonable price given […]

The Masks We Wear

Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell

June 11, 2021 by msvreadsbooks Leave a Comment

The Hampstead neighborhood has been besieged by an increasing number of sexual assaults happening even in broad daylight. One of the families that lives near the assaults is the Fours family. The father, Roan, is a child psychologist; the wife and mother, Cate, is a physiotherapist; and they have a daughter and a son. Their across-the-street neighbor, Owen, is a thirty-year-old virgin who lives with his aunt. After being accused of inappropriate behavior with is students, he finds his way to the INCEL community online. […]

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False Value by Ben Aaronovitch

February 11, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

well, not me per say- but DC Peter Grant. There was a good deal of magic AND non-magic kerfuffle at the end of Lies Sleeping. Peter, Lesley, Chorley, and the Nightingale himself were all thrown into the process of red tape and blue lines. I read Lies Sleeping back in September of last year, and then stopped dead in the ROL-iverse except for a short story here or there. False Value was available, but no way in hell was I about to mess up my matching set […]

narfna on And now, jump back hundreds and hundreds of years…#BlameMalin on this one for me, too, because she literally sent me a copy.
narfna on “And that very same evening—that very same evening—Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.”That's gotta be the new headcanon.
drmllz on “And that very same evening—that very same evening—Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.”I like to think the wife packs Hastings off to England to hang out with Poirot and enjoys having a whole ranch to herself...
Emmalita on And now, jump back hundreds and hundreds of years…Oh yay! Another #BlameMalin victim. That was an expensive miscommunication. I'm glad your grandmother is ok.
Emmalita on I liked this more as an exercise in boundary pushing for meI have to admit, I really liked this one. But Anita Kelly's whole vibe just works for me. I do have a couple of non...

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