Posted on January 31, 2010 by Meg

A book review of The Lovely Bones fromSimpson’s Paradox, just in time for the movie:
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, begins by introducing the protagonist, Susie Salmon (like the fish, she reminds us), who is dead, murdered by a neighbor who’s made smalltalk with her parents a few times. As her community searches for her [...]

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Nayab Naseer

Medusa is one of Clive Cussler’s latest novels, featuring Kurt Austin of NUMA, upon which all of Cussler’s novels base itself.
The story deals with a deadly virus originating in remote China, a virus so deadly that the entire future of mankind is at stake. A top secret US government sponsored undersea lab conducts biomedical [...]

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Nidha N

Curtain, written during World War II and published 30 years later, in 1975 during the fag end of Agatha Christie’s life is one of Agatha Christie’s detective novel, renowned for the fact that this novel features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings, two of Agatha Christie’s renowned detectives in their final appearances.
Hercule Poirot is [...]

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Nayab Naseer

The Apocalypse Watch is one of Robert Ludlum’s better books. The story is set in modern day Europe with the new-Nazi movement set to establish the Fourth Reich.
The Neo Nazis have set up a mountain hideout in the remote Hausruck Mountains of Austria from where they have surely established a strong network across Europe. The [...]

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Nayab Naseer

Flashback is a Jenny Siler novel set in North Africa.
The plot starts with an unknown American found with a shot in her head near a convent in Burgundy and nursed back to health by the nuns. On being nursed back to health, the girl, christened Eve suffers from amnesia and now tries to find out [...]

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Nayab Naseer

The Runner is one of Christopher Reich’s most popular novels. Christopher Reich here departs from his usual financial thrillers to author a gripping historical thriller set in the backdrop of Post World War II Germany.
Devlin Judge, an ex-New York City detective turned lawyer is on the hunt of Erich Seyss, an ex nazi soldier who [...]

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Nayab Naseer

Archangel is one of Robert Harris’ thriller novel set in modern day post Communist Russia.
Professor “Fluke” Kelso, a British history professor specializes in Stalin. He comes to Russia for a conference, and meets Rapava, an old man and ex-soldier who claims that he was present with Stalin on the night he died, in 1953. He [...]

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Nayab Naseer

Enigma is one of the most successful novels of Robert Harris, the British novelist.
The novels is set in World War II England. Tom Jericho, the protagonist is a brilliant mathematician who works as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park, the headquarters of British cryptography. He has succeeded in breaking the Nazi code once, but the Nazis [...]

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Catherine Orr

I don’t really read an awful lot of books by female authors. In fact, the only one I can think of that I’ve read is Harry Potter! I guess they don’t generally appeal to me. This one did though. I guess being a medical-related horror/thriller I was drawn to it. I bought a whole load [...]

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Meg

The Independence of Miss Mary Bennett is a new sequel to Pride And Prejudice, by Colleen McCullough. There have recently been a lot of sequels or retellings of the beloved Pride and Prejudice (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, or the Bollywood Bride and Prejudice, to a name a few), just proving how well-loved Jane and [...]