Tag: thriller

A novel needs to be read, not explained, not paraphrased into a synopsis over a dinner party to an audience who are, at best, politely disinterested, but that

She’s a small town girl with a big city dream, Gemma Solomon leaving her family, her job in her parents’ diner, her aspiring but directionless musician boyfriend Hunter

In the warm bed of the guest house atop the rocky cliff face on the coast of Hoy in south west Orkney she drifts, semi-conscious, through the sea

Any plan is only as good as the parts which fit together to make it happen: Ronald Lake a veteran of the gangster fraternity, entrusted to make the

An Englishman abroad in Bangkok, Father Daniel has made the best of his life, he and his Thai wife May doting on their daughter Olivia, she in turn

She strikes the spark and the fire catches, the petrol-drenched man tied to the chair ablaze, lighting up the night; she’s been on the floor in a stranglehold

A washing board and a basket of sheets and socks, two chairs to ease the load if not the burden, a small village by the river looking to

It’s been a bad month for insurance salesman Barry Rapchick, his ex-wife calling to chase him for maintenance for their son, his leads not panning out on his

It was an overheard conversation at a gallery art installation, Patrick inveigling his way into the confidence of “the Missionary,” going through a divorce and eager to unburden

Mass public transit, a place where individuals from all walks of life converge, the wealthy dressed in their finery on the way back from the opera or society