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January 10, 2012

Other People’s Rules by Julia Hamilton

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Title: Other People's Rules Author: Julia Hamilton Genre: Thriller Release Date: Apr 5 2001 Pages: 487

The beautiful Kate Gresham went missing on the night of her sixteenth birthday party on her family’s Scottish estate in 1978. Despite offers of rewards from her father, multi-millionaire and pop icon, Michael Gresham, neither she nor her body is found. But other girls have also gone missing that summer and when their murderer is caught he confesses

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Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly

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Title: Scarecrow Author: Matthew Reilly Genre: Thriller Publisher: Pan Macmillan Release Date: Dec 1 2009 Pages: 524

This is Matthew Reilly’s third offering in the Shane “Scarecrow” Schofield series, following on from Ice Station Matthew Reilly admits that he set out to make this book a faster book that was more densely packed with plot than his previous books; no mean feat considering how fast moving and action-packed his earlier books were

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

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Title: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Author: Agatha Christie Genre: Thriller Publisher: Harper Collins publishers Release Date: Jan 1 2002 Pages: 368

Agatha Christie devotees will without doubt have already read the book that catapulted her from leading mystery novelist to the undisputed Queen of Crime. First published by Collins in 1926, ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ was Christie’s sixth full-length novel. Its controversial finale caused a rift amongst crime fiction fans with

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Robbers by Christopher Cook

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Title: Robbers Author: Christopher Cook Genre: Thriller Publisher: No Exit Press Release Date: 2001 Pages: 372

Two drifters pull into a gas station; one of them tries to buy a packet of cigarettes but he’s a penny short so he shoots the clerk. Thus begins a trail of destruction.

Ray Bob and Eddie have recently been released from prison, they hook up in a bar and are best friends within five minutes – a lethal combination is born as they begin their

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Pursuit by Brian Gallagher

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Title: Pursuit Author: Brian Gallagher Genre: Thriller Publisher: Poolbeg Press Release Date: Jan 1 2004 Pages: 593

Former Irish solder Conn Lynch made a deathbed confession and when journalist Laura Kennedy heard about it, her investigative instincts kicked in. Convinced that there is a story hidden somewhere within Conn’s life, Laura is determined to uncover it.

Steve Johnson, millionaire and new owner of the newspaper where Laura works, decides to help

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Rage by Jonathan Kellerman

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Title: Rage Author: Jonathan Kellerman Genre: Thriller Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: 2006 Pages: 391

I am a long time fan of Jonathan Kellerman. Therefore, when I saw Rage parked in amongst the new releases it was a given that I would buy it.

Much to the relief of die-hard Kellerman fans, Rage features Kellerman’s most infamous character psychologist Dr Alex Delaware. Once again Delaware finds himself caught up in a murder investigation, though

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A Painted House by John Grisham

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Title: A Painted House Author: John Grisham Genre: Thriller Publisher: Random House Release Date: 2011 Pages: 466

Cotton farmers living on bad land, a poor family struggle to make a living in South Arkansas. Luke is seven years old, all his life all he has known is farming: the planting season in May, Summer weeding, and picking in September. Living in a small house that has never been painted and renting eighty acres of land outside the small town of Black

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Perish Twice by Robert B Parker

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Title: Perish Twice Author: Robert B. Parker Genre: Thriller Publisher: Penguin Release Date: 2001 Pages: 334

Boston private investigator Sunny Randall comes to the aid of three very different women as she investigates threats against a prominent feminist and assists her best friend and older sister, each of whom is confronting a wrenching personal struggle, in this well-plotted thriller by the author of Family Honor and Hugger Mugger. Reprint.

Sunny Randall

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Nocturnes by John Connolly

Filed under: Book Reviews,Irish,Thriller — The DJ @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Nocturnes Author: John Connolly Genre: Thriller, Irish Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks

John Connolly is an Irish Times journalist turned crime-writer whose books are bestsellers and have won him legions of fans. So these same fans might be surprised to learn that his new book Nocturnes turns (mainly) away from crime to focus on horror. Connolly himself has pointed out that in the US, crime books are termed ‘mystery’ books

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The Murder Exchange by Simon Kernick

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Title: The Murder Exchange Author: Simon Kernick Genre: Thriller Publisher: Random House Release Date: 2011-05 Pages: 431

When ex-mercenary Max Iversson is introduced to night-club owner Roy Fowler, he senses immediately that the man is trouble. Fowler wants security for a meeting with a group of ‘businessmen’ who are looking to buy his club. Five grand for a couple of hours’ work is too tempting a proposition to turn down, so Iversson – against

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