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Genre - Suspense Fiction
Once a special forces soldier and now turned bodyguard, Charlie Fox whose personal life is in turmoil with her lover, Sean Meyer. Charlie and Sean are working as bodyguards for the wealthy at a fund-raising event in aid of the ravaged are of New Orleans from cyclone Katrina. A robbery explodes into a vicious and deadly hostage situation on a Paddle Steamer owned by the wealthy, and both Charlie and Sean find their clients in dire circumstances fighting for all their lives.
A good thriller with unexpected twists to keep you in suspense.
---- Reviewed by Judy, Rowville Bookchat
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Tuesday's Gone by Nicci French
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Genre - Psychological Suspense, Thriller
At first, this is slow reading and makes you wonder where the story will take you, but in keeping along the lines of a Psychotherapist, as a reader it is necessary to persevere to appreciate the depth of the story line.
Psychotherapist Frieda Klein assists the police when they discover a body found in the flat of Michelle Doyce who has a mental disorder. Straight away the police think it a ‘slam dunk’ into the death of the body. Not the case. Frieda uncovers a possible identity as that of the body being Robert Poole. However, we find out that Poole has been dead from 6 years.
In reading Frieda’s lifestyle, her work, patients, friends and police colleagues who are very involved into her way of living within her expectations. Frieda is unable to discover the real truth, and more bodies are found supposedly suicide cases. Just when you think all is sorted out, a final twist leaves you in suspense.
---- Reviewed by Judy, Rowville Bookchat
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Genre - Psychological Suspense, Thriller
At first, this is slow reading and makes you wonder where the story will take you, but in keeping along the lines of a Psychotherapist, as a reader it is necessary to persevere to appreciate the depth of the story line.
Psychotherapist Frieda Klein assists the police when they discover a body found in the flat of Michelle Doyce who has a mental disorder. Straight away the police think it a ‘slam dunk’ into the death of the body. Not the case. Frieda uncovers a possible identity as that of the body being Robert Poole. However, we find out that Poole has been dead from 6 years.
In reading Frieda’s lifestyle, her work, patients, friends and police colleagues who are very involved into her way of living within her expectations. Frieda is unable to discover the real truth, and more bodies are found supposedly suicide cases. Just when you think all is sorted out, a final twist leaves you in suspense.
---- Reviewed by Judy, Rowville Bookchat
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
Shiver by Karen Robards
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Genre - Romance, Suspense
Samantha Jones is a young mother earning a living driving a tow truck and picking up repossessions in one of the seediest parts of town. She is picking up a new BMW and finds someone in the boot who has been shot and beaten. This person is Danny Panterro under the alias Marcos, who is working undercover for the FBI and found himself near death’s door until Samantha collected his car.
They are running for their lives from a drug running mob who want to kill Danny and anyone who stands in his way. They escape with Samantha’s son Tyler and are put into protective custody. Is this all? They are found out and once again on the run.
A good read with the mob style cruelty in the mix.
---- Reviewed by Judy, Rowville Bookchat
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Genre - Romance, Suspense
Samantha Jones is a young mother earning a living driving a tow truck and picking up repossessions in one of the seediest parts of town. She is picking up a new BMW and finds someone in the boot who has been shot and beaten. This person is Danny Panterro under the alias Marcos, who is working undercover for the FBI and found himself near death’s door until Samantha collected his car.
They are running for their lives from a drug running mob who want to kill Danny and anyone who stands in his way. They escape with Samantha’s son Tyler and are put into protective custody. Is this all? They are found out and once again on the run.
A good read with the mob style cruelty in the mix.
---- Reviewed by Judy, Rowville Bookchat
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Shadow Woman by Linda Howard
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Genre - Romance, Suspense
Intriguing storyline with a few twists and is a book you can’t put down.
Lizette Henry wakes up one morning and wonders who she is. First she is jolted with a blinding headache and then very sick. Each time she starts to think, her illness progresses. She does not recognize herself in the mirror, and upon looking at her hairline and faceline she finds tiny scarring.
Who is she and what is her past. She can only recall 3 years ago and has lost 2 years of her life. Lizette works out if she thinks too much, then this ‘illness’ advances; she is able to control after a time and feels she is being watched. Deep inside she knows she is not the woman in the mirror.
Suddenly, events come to her which she finds herself being ‘hunted’ and has to leave everything behind. Nowhere to go and wondering how she is still been followed. She bumps into a ‘hunk’ of a man who leaves her weak-kneed at the pharmacist where she is getting urgent supplies, and unbeknown to her, this man as she knows as X is in fact trying to protect her. From whom and where can she go? On the run until the very end with more than one person after her life and that of X who is called Xavier.
---- Reviewed by Judy, Rowville Bookchat
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Genre - Romance, Suspense
Intriguing storyline with a few twists and is a book you can’t put down.
Lizette Henry wakes up one morning and wonders who she is. First she is jolted with a blinding headache and then very sick. Each time she starts to think, her illness progresses. She does not recognize herself in the mirror, and upon looking at her hairline and faceline she finds tiny scarring.
Who is she and what is her past. She can only recall 3 years ago and has lost 2 years of her life. Lizette works out if she thinks too much, then this ‘illness’ advances; she is able to control after a time and feels she is being watched. Deep inside she knows she is not the woman in the mirror.
Suddenly, events come to her which she finds herself being ‘hunted’ and has to leave everything behind. Nowhere to go and wondering how she is still been followed. She bumps into a ‘hunk’ of a man who leaves her weak-kneed at the pharmacist where she is getting urgent supplies, and unbeknown to her, this man as she knows as X is in fact trying to protect her. From whom and where can she go? On the run until the very end with more than one person after her life and that of X who is called Xavier.
---- Reviewed by Judy, Rowville Bookchat
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Full Disclosure by Dee Henderson
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Genre - Romance, Suspense
Ann Silver who is a Mid Western Investigator, being a rather enigmatic character is a down to roots cop to the core. However, she is also very talented in writing several published books, painting and able to assist the FBI with insight to that of a more lateral thinker.
She is approached by the FBI to assist cases in the worst of the worst and becomes involved with one of the heads of the FBI which throws her life in a turmoil; also involving the Vice President of the USA.
This books glances over the murders and delves into the lives at the top of the ladder with the FBI and Government, and keeps the reader wanting to finish the book for the final outcome. Excellent storyline and a book that should not be missed, with plenty of dramas, including romance to entice the reader.
---- Reviewed by Judy, Rowville Bookchat
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Genre - Romance, Suspense
Ann Silver who is a Mid Western Investigator, being a rather enigmatic character is a down to roots cop to the core. However, she is also very talented in writing several published books, painting and able to assist the FBI with insight to that of a more lateral thinker.
She is approached by the FBI to assist cases in the worst of the worst and becomes involved with one of the heads of the FBI which throws her life in a turmoil; also involving the Vice President of the USA.
This books glances over the murders and delves into the lives at the top of the ladder with the FBI and Government, and keeps the reader wanting to finish the book for the final outcome. Excellent storyline and a book that should not be missed, with plenty of dramas, including romance to entice the reader.
---- Reviewed by Judy, Rowville Bookchat
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Bones are Forever by Kathy Reichs
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Genre - Mystery, Suspense
Dr Temperance Brennan a well renowned forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec is brought to investigate the shocking discovery of dead babies. The trail leads to Yellowknife, a vast, cold and once known mining town on the edge of the Arctic Circle. More dead bodies are found and risks taken to unravel the connection to the remains of the babies found in more than one State. A good read and certainly if you are a Reichs fan, a must to finish.
---- Reviewed by Judy, Rowville
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Genre - Mystery, Suspense
Dr Temperance Brennan a well renowned forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec is brought to investigate the shocking discovery of dead babies. The trail leads to Yellowknife, a vast, cold and once known mining town on the edge of the Arctic Circle. More dead bodies are found and risks taken to unravel the connection to the remains of the babies found in more than one State. A good read and certainly if you are a Reichs fan, a must to finish.
---- Reviewed by Judy, Rowville
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The Affair by Lee Child
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Genre - Suspense
Reacher once again is on the track to find out if the killing of beautiful females in the outback country where an military base is established. It involves a Senator, and highly ranked military officials based in the Pentagon, or does it? Who is to blame. Reacher is under cover to find out why, does he accept the military’s reasons or does he go and tie up loose ends to his own satisfaction. This book is one of Child’s earliest reads and gives the circumstances why he ends up in later books as a ‘lone ranger’.
Trivia: Did you know that the Pentagon is the world’s largest office building, boasting six hundred and a half million square feet with thirty thousand people, and more than 17 miles of corridors?
---- Reviewed by Judy, Rowville Bookchat
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Genre - Suspense
Reacher once again is on the track to find out if the killing of beautiful females in the outback country where an military base is established. It involves a Senator, and highly ranked military officials based in the Pentagon, or does it? Who is to blame. Reacher is under cover to find out why, does he accept the military’s reasons or does he go and tie up loose ends to his own satisfaction. This book is one of Child’s earliest reads and gives the circumstances why he ends up in later books as a ‘lone ranger’.
Trivia: Did you know that the Pentagon is the world’s largest office building, boasting six hundred and a half million square feet with thirty thousand people, and more than 17 miles of corridors?
---- Reviewed by Judy, Rowville Bookchat
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Long Lost by Harlan Coben
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Genre - Mystery, Suspense
Myron Bolitar receives a phone call from Terese Collins, whom he has not heard from for 10 years after a very torrid affair and her disappearance left him shattered. Despite spending two years to trace her, he fails. Terese contacts Myron because she is a suspect in the killing of her ex-husband in Paris and also the possibility that her daughter may still be alive. Not the case, very involved but a great read particularly for Coben fans.
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Myron Bolitar receives a phone call from Terese Collins, whom he has not heard from for 10 years after a very torrid affair and her disappearance left him shattered. Despite spending two years to trace her, he fails. Terese contacts Myron because she is a suspect in the killing of her ex-husband in Paris and also the possibility that her daughter may still be alive. Not the case, very involved but a great read particularly for Coben fans.
---- Reviewed by Judy, Rowville Bookchat
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Sweet Talk by Julie Garwood
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Genre - Romance, Suspense
This is classified as a romance, but belies the fact that it ends up with a storyline involving the FBI and fraud on its highest level. The main characters are Olivia McKenzie and FBI agent Grayson Kincaid. Olivia’s estranged family are out to get her trust account and Olivia wants her father put behind bars for ripping off clients sophisticated Ponzi schemes. However, the novel starts with the stories of 4 young girls each having a life-threatening disease and whose parents no longer wish to be with them.
Once past reading the first chapters on the 4 girls, then the books creates more interest with more depth in the storyline. A book to be read in its entirety.
---- Reviewed by Judy, Rowville
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Genre - Romance, Suspense
This is classified as a romance, but belies the fact that it ends up with a storyline involving the FBI and fraud on its highest level. The main characters are Olivia McKenzie and FBI agent Grayson Kincaid. Olivia’s estranged family are out to get her trust account and Olivia wants her father put behind bars for ripping off clients sophisticated Ponzi schemes. However, the novel starts with the stories of 4 young girls each having a life-threatening disease and whose parents no longer wish to be with them.
Once past reading the first chapters on the 4 girls, then the books creates more interest with more depth in the storyline. A book to be read in its entirety.
---- Reviewed by Judy, Rowville
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Friday, August 29, 2008
The Warrior's Princess by Barbara Erskine

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Genre - Mystery
Best read from Barbara Erskine, read this book in 3 days. Once again she makes you feel part of the story. I wait with baited breath for the next one. I wish she could write as fast as I read her books.
---- Reviewed by Georgina, Guest
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard

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Genre - Suspense fiction
The glorious front cover drew me to this great summer read. Lifelong friends since high school, Holly, Tracy and Olivia reunite for a luxurious Caribbean sailing trip. Tracy’s beautiful teenage daughter, Camille, joins them at the last minute as they set off with an experienced two man crew on the holiday of a lifetime. We get to know more about the women and their families on their cruise in paradise. Their shared history and some new secrets are revealed as the suspense builds until a series of deadly mistakes leave them fighting for survival at the mercy of dangerous drug runners and the sea. This is a strong story of survival and friendship.
---- Reviewed by Sue, Knox Library
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