Showing posts with label Thriller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thriller. Show all posts

Thursday, 28 June 2012

Before I Go to Sleep - S J Watson

Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christine's life.

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Different Seasons - Stephen King

Each of the four stories, markedly different in tone and subject, present a journey: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Hope Springs Eternal) is a tale of an innocent man who devises an exciting escape from prison; The Apt Pupil (Summer of Corruption) is the story of a golden schoolboy and an old man with a hideous past who join in a dreadful union; in The Body (Fall from Innocence), four young boys venture into the woods and find life, death and the end of innocence and The Breathing Method (A Winter's Tale) is a macabre story told in a strange club of a woman determined to give birth...no matter what.

Wednesday, 5 October 2011

The Snowman - Jo Nesbo

A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Their house is empty but outside he sees his mothers favourite scarf - wrapped around a snowman.  Harry Hole, the leading detective finds an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years and he finds himself searching for a serial killer.

Tuesday, 12 July 2011

The Choice – Susan Lewis

Nikki Grant is only twenty-one when she discovers she's pregnant. Despite her parents' disappointment and anger, she welcomes the news with joy. The baby will complete the happy home she shares with the man she adores, Spencer James. Baby Zac arrives and is perfect in every way. And with Spencer's career taking off they are ready to make the big move to London. And then, on a day like any other, Nikki suddenly finds her life turned upside down by tragedy. As she becomes evermore embroiled in a world she cannot escape, the love between Nikki and her son is put to the kind of test no mother should ever have to face...

Friday, 17 June 2011

Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman


Smoke and mirrors, is a collection of Gaiman's short stories, and prose.  An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat. A stray cat fights and refights a terrible nightly battle to protect his unwary adoptive family from unimaginable evil. A young couple receives a wedding gift that reveals a chilling alternative history of their marriage.

Sunday, 29 May 2011

Carrie - Steven King

Carrie is no ordinary school girl, she has the gift of Telekinesis. She is badly bullied and has an overbearing religious mother, which spells disaster for Carrie.  When the kids in school go one step too far, Carrie exerts her revenge.

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown

Robert Langdon is solving crimes again. This time in Washington, where he is summoned to unlock the code from a ancient free-masons talisman. He learns his Mentor Peter a fellow Mason Peter has been Kidnapped, Peters sister Katherine is in danger, and the CIA are watching his every move. Its up to Robert to unlock the code to help discover the truth.  


Saturday, 5 February 2011

Enigma - Robert Harris



March 1943, the war hangs in the balance.  Jericho is sent for to crack the code from the German U Boats using the Enigma machine.  A task he has done before but was sent on leave due to a break down.  However he is the only one who can potentially crack the code. He returns to Bletchley Park, and discovers a new mystery on his doorstep, his former girlfriend has gone missing and their may be a spy inside Bletchley.