Title: | From The Dead |
Author: | Mark Billingham |
Genre: | Crime/Thriller |
Synopsis: | As a woman jailed for plotting to murder her husband prepares to be released photos of her husband alive and well begin arriving in the mail. |
Verdict: | The relationships in these novels continue to impress as do the inventiveness of the crimes. |
Pages: | 359 |
Read: | February 2011 |
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#111. From The Dead by Mark Billingham
#110. Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs
Title: | Break No Bones |
Author: | Kathy Reichs |
Genre: | Crime/Thriller/Forensics |
Synopsis: | A modern corpse is found at the site of an ancient burial ground is the start of a disturbing pattern. |
Verdict: | A good return after the complicated and controversial plot of ‘Cross Bones’. |
Pages: | 334 |
Read: | February 2011 |
#109. Blood Line by Mark Billingham
Title: | Blood Line |
Author: | Mark Billingham |
Genre: | Crime/Thriller |
Synopsis: | A seemingly isolated murder turns out to be the first in a disturbing string of murders of the children of the victims of a long dead serial killer. |
Verdict: | Character development and plotting still refreshingly organic and well-paced. Tom Thorne is a great fictional detective. |
Pages: | 344 |
Read: | February 2011 |
#108. Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs
Title: | Monday Mourning |
Author: | Kathy Reichs |
Genre: | Crime/Thriller/Forensics |
Synopsis: | Three skeletons are discovered buried in a cellar and as the story of how they came to be there unfolds the crimes are found to be a lot more recent and a lot more unsettling than originally assumed. |
Verdict: | Still enjoying the forensic take on procedurals and the characters. Less stiff than initial novels. |
Pages: | 300 |
Read: | February 2011 |