more a novella than a novel... — 3 years ago...and something that is probably best read in one sitting. I didn’t find it as scary as I hoped – nor as unsettling – but it’s pretty good.
I was lucky enough to read an advance copy of this. Denise Mina has done it again with another searing crime novel. She writes stories that everyone should be reading, even those people who consider crime fiction ‘genre’ and not quite good enough as ‘proper’ literature.
A review of "The Visitor (A Jack Reacher Novel)" — 3 years agoLee Child writes brilliant thrillers that appeal to women simply because his main character, Jack Reacher, is very appealing and his women characters strong and three-dimensional. This isn’t his best, although it is good, not as great as DIE TRYING, but the ending felt as if Child didn’t really know how to finish it.
Stunning — 3 years agoI was blown away by this and now want to read everything that Denise Mina has written. FIELD OF BLOOD is fantastic – giving the reader a glimpse of Glasweigian society in the early eighties, a conflicted and appealing heroine in the shape of 18-year-old lapsed catholic and ambitious wannabe hack Paddy Meeham and an insight into how the power balance between men and women have changed in the last twenty years. This is a crime novel, but it’s a larger story society, the ways it’s changed, and the ways it’s stayed the same. Just brilliant and flawlessly written.
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