A clever plot and a touching story marred by flat writing…
DCI Anna Tate takes on the investigation after nine pre-schoolers are abducted in broad daylight from a nursery school in South London. The suspects are plenty, and DCI Tate…
A compelling read with unseen twists…one of Gudenkauf’s best!
Gudenkauf’s intricately plotted novel packs a lot of unpleasant happenings into a few unhappy winter days in a small rural town in Iowa. Twelve-year-old Cora Landry is found bloody, viciously beaten…
The hardest part for any crime writer while working on adaptation of Shakespeare’s 400-yrs old tragedy, especially, in today’s age of advanced forensics and medical technology is to provide credibility to a series of supernatural events; prophecies, visions, witches,…
A stunning literary novella…
The book takes an intimate look into the aching soul of Pierre, a kind, empathetic man. After losing his wife and five children to the aerial bombing of France during the Second World War, Pierre takes…
A stunningly brilliant, thought-provoking work of literature…
Charles Agwok is a black boy born in Uganda and lives in a refugee camp with his parents and siblings. While most of those refugees population is content to live a life of…
A moving story of war, love and loss…
In 1961 and 1962, Ngo Dinh Diem, leader of the South Vietnam government, requested security assistance from the US and its allies. Australia decided to send 30 military advisers, dispatched as the…
A dazzling mystery that will keep the readers on their toes…
To keep the unsavory elements away, Victor Buddom builds an electrified fence on his property in rural Jamaica. After a man is electrocuted, another brutal killing follows. The…
An absolutely brilliant, page turning thriller that will keep the readers on the edge of their seats…
Jessica Farris, a twenty-something makeup artist, is struggling to make ends meet in expensive New York City. Through one of her clients, she…
A series going way off the mark and steering into an entirely different territory. Skip it…
Glass Houses by Louise Penny opens with Armand Gamache, newly appointed Chief Superintendent of the Surete du Quebec, in the witness box to testify…
A suspense-filled, thrilling read…
A break from her regular series, Karin Slaughter explores mother daughter relationship and cult mentality in Pieces of Her. Children like to think mothers as mothers and nothing else. It is hard to imagine a mother…
A promising debut that will be sure to delight fans of brilliant police procedural series…
Aurora Jackson, an intelligent, pretty 14-year-old girl disappears at a campsite while camping with her older sister and sister’s five friends in Brinken Wood in…
A YA book about plight of victims of religious cults…
The book is roughly based on the US government’s investigation into the actions of the federal agencies during the Waco Siege after eighty-two members of the Branch Davidian religious sect…
With its everyday narration and ordinary writing style, The Liar’s Wife is a tedious read at best…
Ella Sinclair meets an accident and wakes up in a hospital bed to find a man claiming to be her husband. Used…
An educational, beautiful book with interesting illustrations and interesting prose…
Juan, a polite young boy, is preparing for aliens’ visit to the earth as everyone else in the world is doing. He is already good at using the words ‘please’,…
Intricately plotted, this psychological thriller grabs the reader from the start and doesn’t let go until the truth about killer is finally revealed…
Peter Caine, a ruthless and one of the best Manhattan defense attorneys, has learned only to win.…
A multilayered thriller which feels fractured due to lack of cohesiveness…
A prominent college athlete rapes a girl and ends up in jail based on the DNA evidence, only to have his DNA show up in another rape case while…
A lost cause…
Rockton is a secret town in the harsh wilderness of Yukon in Northern Canada for people who have reasons to leave their past behind and start anew. Homicide detective Casey Duncan who is in town for a…
An adorable, informative book about baby animals on the farm and in the wild with stunning pictures and illustrations perfectly suitable for kindergarten kids…
In Mack’s World of Wonder: The Cutest Baby Animals, the narrative follows a strict routine; the…
An absolutely brilliant book from the master storyteller…
In The New Iberia Blues, Dave Robicheaux and Sean McClain, a new addition to the staff, interview Desmond Cormier, a Louisiana-born film director at his waterside estate about reports of a screaming…
The very unusual thing about Lethal White by Robert Galbraith is that it is a whodunit, and it is almost 700 pages long; unusually long for a mystery. Two hundred pages in the book, and you will realize the editors…
