The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross

The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross


My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Business man Ben Raab is arrested and investigated by the FBI for laundering money for a Columbian mobsters. He and his family are put into the witness protection programme but his oldest daughter kate decides she does not want to do this. She tries to carry on with her life, but others have very different ideas. It leads Kate on a discovery about how her father really is.
This is a great thriller and full of suspense.It is a real page turner and very well written.

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The Perfect Murder by Peter James

The Perfect Murder by Peter James


My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book is very well written. I enjoyed every page.
Victor and his wife Joan, can't stand each other. They have been married for 20 years.
Victor wants to kill his wife but unbeknown to him, Joan wants to kill him too.

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Book's read

I have got behind in my blogging of book's I have read so I will list them here in one entry so I can start afresh with new books.

Vengeance in Death by J.D Robb
Agatha Raison and the Terrible Tourist by M C Beaton
Doctors and Nurses by Lucy Ellmann
Artic Drift by Clive cussler
The Last Oracle by James Rollins
Agatha Raison and the Wellspring of Death by M C Beaton
Holiday in Death by J D Robb
Death of a Gossip by M C Beaton
The Third Pig Detective Agency by Bob Burke

Lucky Me!

I follow www.waterstones.com on Facebook and last week they wrote an entry saying they had a few copies of Beatrice and Virgil by the Booker Prize winner Yann Martel to give away providing it's read and then reviewed on their site. I apllied thinking I probably wouldn't receive one. Well, I was wrong and a copy turned up this morning! I am chuffed to bits. The book is a proof version as it's not on general release. Publishing date is April the 13th I believe.

This is what Goodreads have to say on the book.

Fate can take many forms. For Henry, a writer living in a foreign city, it arrives in the form of an envelope from a reader. Instead of the usual fan mail, the envelope contains a story by Flaubert, a scene from a play featuring two characters named Beatrice and Virgil, and a note asking for Henry’s help. The note is signed “Henry,” and the return address is not far from where Henry lives. When Henry walks his dog to hand-deliver his response, he is surprised to discover a taxidermist’s shop. Here, stunning specimens are poised on the brink of action, silent and preternaturally still, yet bursting with the palpable life of a lost, vibrant world. And when the mysterious, elderly taxidermist introduces his visitor to Beatrice and Virgil—a donkey and a howler monkey—Henry’s life is changed forever.

Yann Martel’s previous novel, Life of Pi, has become a modern classic. A fantastical tale about a boy and a tiger shipwrecked in the Pacific, it asked probing questions about belief and reality. Now Martel has written another story that uses animals to examine our humanity. In Beatrice and Virgil, he poses enduring questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity. Haunting and unforgettable, this is an extraordinary feat of storytelling.

Knife by R.J.Anderson

Knife by R.J. Anderson


My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This was a lovely story. It tells of a fairy (Knife) who befriends a young man who is in a wheelchair and of how they help save 'Knifes' fairy folk in their tree in the young mans garden. Beautifully written, a must read for lovers of adult fairy tales.

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The Prophecy by Chris Kuzneski

The Prophecy by Chris Kuzneski


My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I absolutely loved this book, a real page turner.
When the prophetic writings of sixteenth-century visionary Nostradamus begin to ring alarmingly true, Payne and Jones find themselves in a life-or-death race across the world to stop those who would use the French seer’s predictions for their own dark purposes.

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