Monthly Archives: April, 2014
The Bethlehem Murders by Matt Rees
Matt Rees is a Welsh novelist and journalist. This is the first of his books I have read, although he is the author of The Palestine Quartet, a series of crime novels about Omar Yussef a Palestinian sleuth. He is the winner of a Crime Writer’s Association Dagger for his crime fiction. This part of the world …
The Genesis Secret by Tom Knox
Tom Knox is the pseudonym of British writer and journalist Sean Thomas. Born in Devon, England in 1963, he studied Philosophy at University College London. I had never read any of his books but found this one for sale in my library and picked it up to read on holiday. I am glad I did. …
Last Witness by Jilliane Hoffman
Jilliane Hoffman is an American writer of legal thrillers She was born on Long Island, New York State, USA and attended both undergraduate and law school at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. Before the author startied to write, the author practiced as a lawyer while working as an assistant state’s attorney prosecuting felonies in Miami, Florida from 1992 to 1996. Thereafter, she was a regional advisor for …
White Slave by Marco Pierre White
I do not consider myself a bad cook, but I am certainly not interested in doing all the fiddly bits that go with being a top class chef. So when I saw this auto-biography on the “read me before I go” shelf in my local library, I decided to do just that. This autobiography was …
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