Archive for the ‘Crime & Horror’ Category

Jeffery Deaver Collection - 10 Books

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

New York is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job.

Rhyme reluctantly postpones his ambitions towards suicide and puts together a forensic investigation team, enlisting as his eyes and ears young police officer, Amelia Sachs. Rhyme digs deep into the only world he has left - his astonishing mind - and slowly begins to narrow the noose around the Bone Collector.

But the kidnapper is narrowing his own noose around Lincoln Rhyme… Jeff Deaver’s stunningly suspenseful thrillers, full of fascinating forensic detail and new twists when you least expect them, are fast-paced and designed to keep you on the edge of your seat!

Runaway - Skye Sinclair

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Abandoned at the age of four, Skye learnt to fend for herself from an early age. Fearless and impulsive, Skye’s curiosity took her all over the world - from the Paris fashion world, on to Holland where she became a diamond smuggler and then to Hollywood where she worked as a stunt woman. Life took a different turn when she moved to Thailand, adopted four children - Angelina Jolie-style - and sponsored another three. The runaway child had found a reason to stop running…

Jack Frost Series - 3 Books - R.D.Wingfield

Friday, February 6th, 2009

Jack Frost, scruffy, insubordinate and fearless, staggers from crisis to crisis, his extraordinary powers of detection well disguised by a bumbling exterior. Here, the gruelling assortment of crimes he stumbles across include a young boy found dead in a rubbish heap and a well-known junkie whose corpse is found blocking the drain of a public lavatory. Possibly three of the best crime novels ever written!

Horowitz Horror Collection - 6 Books

Friday, December 19th, 2008

 

Anthony Horowitz has written a series - for confident readers - that focuses on a strange and twisted world. Full of suspense and good old fashioned spine tingles, young adults will really enjoy these sinister and creepy tales from the award-winning author!

Kathy Reichs Collection - 10 Books

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

When Kathy Reichs made her debut with Déjà Dead, she took the world of crime writing by storm. With her background as an expert forensic anthropologist, she was perfectly placed to inject bone-chilling and authentic detail into the gruesome investigations undertaken by her fictional character, Dr Temperance Brennan. Tempe soon established herself as one of crime fiction’s favourite investigators, and she’s now the star of ten gripping novels. Motives are painstakingly pieced together from obscure clues left behind and, always prepared to take matters into her own hands, Tempe frequently finds herself drawn into evil and endangering her own life and those of her closest friends. Riveting, satisfying and gripping from the first page to the last!

The Business by Martina Cole

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

The Business by Martina ColeImelda Dooley is scared. Really scared. She’s played hard and fast and now she’s been caught. She’s pregnant and now she’s on her own. Her father, not a man to mess with, will see that somebody pays for this. And it’s not going to be her. So Imelda Dooley tells a lie. A lie that literally causes murders. When Mary Dooley’s husband is killed in the night’s events, she knows she must graft to keep the family afloat. And graft she does, becoming a name in her own right. But she still has to watch her daughter’s life spiral into a vicious, hate-fuelled cycle of drugs and prostitution. Caught up in the carnage that is Imelda’s existence are Mary’s adored grandchildren, Jordanna and Kenny. Pretty little Jordanna isn’t yet three and she already knows far too much. All she can do is look after her baby brother, Kenny, and try not to draw unwanted attention to herself. Set in the East End of London from the tail-end of the seventies up until the present-day, The Business is a tale of drugs, prostitution and a young girl’s fight for survival — against all the odds.

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables.

But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call centres, Balram becomes increasingly aware of immense wealth and opportunity all around him, while knowing that he will never be able to gain access to that world.

As Balram broods over his situation, he realizes that there is only one way he can become part of this glamorous new India - by murdering his master.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family.

He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet’s disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.

The Bone Garden - Tess Gerritsen

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

 

When a human skull is dug up in a garden near Boston, Dr Maura Isles is called in to investigate. She discovers a skeleton of a young woman that has been burried for over a hundred years. But who was the young woman? And how did she die? A gruesome secret is about to be unearthed …

The Ice Man - Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

The Ice Man - Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

Richard Kuklinski (the Ice Man) led a double life. He was a top Mafia hit man and a doting father for 30 years. He became one of the most notorious professional assassins in American history while hosting neighbourhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey. He was Sammy Gravano’s (the Bull) partner in the killing of Paul Castellano. John Gotti hired him to kill his neighbour and he was also intimately involved in the killing of Jimmy Hoffa. By his own estimate, he killed over 200 men. The “Ice Man” is a blood-chilling insight into the mind of one of the world’s most prolific contract killers.