There are two things that bothered with this book.First of all, I thought I would read a mystery/thriller with a serial killer on the loose and I found myself uncovering a historical spy thriller. Interesting but not what I wanted to read. The worst thing was that it tried to pretend to explore b...
R.J. Ellory's "A Simple Act of Violence" begins as a standard police procedural. A woman is murdered in Washington D.C., and the crime scene has the same markings as in three previous murders. The perpetrator is dubbed the Ribbon Killer because of signature ribbons left behind at the scenes. At t...
This was my first Ellory novel, and knowing nothing about the author or book I started it without much idea what to expect. The book opens with a murder and it seems from early on that this will be a police procedural with a stereotypical misfit detective as our protagonist hunting an elusive ser...
Many years ago, John Costello survived a horrific attack by the serial killer known as the "Hammer of God". Fast forward to present day New York, and John is working as a researcher for a newspaper. Ray Irving is a New York cop, a bit of a loner, who has suffered the loss of a loved one. He is ca...
Another fantastic book by R J Ellory, but I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the others, particularly Candlemoth, but it's extremely enjoyable and I couldn't put it down. I won't go into the plot details, as this is covered by other reviewers, but I particularly liked (and I know I shouldn't!) Er...
Bad Signs is a terrific interpretation of the American 'killer on the loose' road movie, set in an expertly realised, rolling landscape of wide horizons and hidden, intimate horrors. Each sleepy small town presents itself to the travellers as the superficial embodiment of the American dream; each...
Dik ok als thriller. Het boek ontspint zich als een roadmovie waarin twee halfbroers het trauma van een gijzeling totaal verschillend verwerken. Ellory neemt de tijd om de ontsporing van het oudste broer te schetsen, waardoor dit nooit (echt) ongeloofwaardig wordt.Bij momenten zéér bloederig en ...
Daniel Ford has 30 days to live. Accused of the horrific murder of his best friend Nathan 12 years before, he has exhausted all appeals and now faces the long walk to the electric chair. All he can do is make peace with his God. Father John Rousseau is the man to whom the last month of Daniel's l...
Annie O'Neill has it all - a cosy Manhattan apartment, a beautiful bookshop and a network of supportive friends. But at the heart of her life is a hole - a place vacated by her father when he died in her childhood. So when a mysterious man named Forrester enters the shop and claims to be her fath...
When Catherine Ducane disappears in the heart of New Orleans, the local cops react rapidly - she is the daughter of the Governor of Louisiana after all. But the case gets very strange, very quickly. Her bodyguard turns up horribly mutilated in the trunk of a beautiful vintage car and when her kid...
I’ve been too busy to review the last few books I’ve read, but I want to make the effort and start again.OK, so I picked this off the shelf mostly because of the title. It’s a nice, lyrical title and the backcopy said it was about a young group of boys who band together to discover who is killing...
‘Thought I should at least call and let you know that I was here and that I was staying a little while.’ ‘Very fucking decent of you,’ Harry Ivens replied. ‘Everything’s okay there?’ ‘No John . . . we’re all behaving like we’re seven or eight years old, and while you’re away we’ve been running ar...
He sat there oblivious to all around him, his mind turning over the conversation he’d had with Tom Bishop. So, let me tell you what I want from you. I want you to vigorously investigate this homicide. I want you to vigorously investigate the people that were present when t...
Irving avait à peine dormi. Il avait passé des heures à lire en détail chaque dossier, sans trouver le fil conducteur. Il s’était épuisé à force de chercher. Au bout d’un moment, les écritures illisibles et les innombrables coquilles avaient fini par l’exaspérer. Personne n’avait téléphoné, pas m...
He found him there on the bunk, outside the door a plate with a couple of fried pork chops and some rice and beans. Webster hadn’t touched it. Gaines recognized the expression on Webster’s face. It was called the thousand-yard stare. In Gaines’s experience, mostly those he had known at the VA, al...
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N Forty minutes later, Fourth Precinct, Irving standing by the window of Captain Farraday′s office. Farraday had cut short a telephone call to see Irving, thinking perhaps that Irving′s urgency was due to some progress, not an insane scheme to bring the New York City Sanitation Department on boar...
‘And speak to Lassiter,’ Miller said. ‘We need to keep him in the loop.’ Roth glanced at his watch. ‘It’s a little after four . . . Lassiter will be there until five, five-thirty maybe.’ Miller smiled. ‘What?’ Miller shook his head. ‘Think our schedule is gonna stretch at both ends until we’re do...