The Hippopotamus By Stephen Fry

Here’s the thing about British humour, if you don’t get it then you probably never will and so shall perceive it to be utterly dry and a bore! However if you do get it …..well then *sings* ‘The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain!…By George you’ve got it!
Stephen Fry is extremely funny, [...]

Book Review -With No One As Witness by Elizabeth George

This being my first book from the Author, I had the impression that she was a native British writer since the story was set in England. Boy was I sorely mistaken, she was actually born in Warren, Ohio (USA) and was a high school English teacher for almost fourteen years or more.
It took me quite [...]

Book Review - The Cold Moon By Jeffrey Deaver

Synopsis : Lincoln Rhyme returns in The Cold Moon, a roller coaster of a thriller that pits Lincoln and Amelia Sachs against time itself.
On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black skies over New York City, two people are brutally murdered—their prolonged deaths marked by eerie calling-cards: moon-faced clocks [...]

Book Review - The Simple Truth By David Baldacci

Plot Outline : Behind the scenes, the U.S. Supreme Court is a battleground of egos, intellects, and power. Here brilliant young attorney Mike Fiske toils as an elite foot soldier. His colleague Sara Evans is clerking for a female Court justice who is powerfully connected to Congress. But Sara, whose career has limitless possibilities, is [...]

Book Review - The Measure Of A Man By Sydney Poitier

If you have a personal library or a special collection of books that you own, this is surely one you ought to include.
Mr Poitier turning 81 on the 20th of Feb is just three years older than my father, and so I have at least some idea of the era they were born in [...]

Book Review - The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Plot Outline : A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if [...]

Book Review - The Devil’s Teardrop By Jeffery Deaver

Story Outline - It’s New Year’s Eve, December 31, 1999, and Washington, D.C., is under siege. Early in the day, a grisly machine gun attack in the Dupont Circle Metro station leaves dozens dead and the city crippled with fear. A note delivered to the mayor’s office pins the massacre on the Digger, a robotlike assassin [...]

Book Review - A Thousand Bones By P.J. Parrish

This is a wonderfully written book and my first from the Author….or should I say Authors. Apparently P.J Parrish (Pen name) is a unique collaboration of two sisters living in separate states. Funny how I picked this one? Because from what I’ve come to learn is that this book is actually [...]

Book Review - Dead Wrong by J.A. Jance

Story outline :
Juggling a family and a career is never easy — and it’s becoming a real challenge for Sheriff Joanna Brady. Coping with the impending delivery of her second child as well as a staff shortage, the last thing Joanna needs are two serious crimes. First, the body of an unidentified man is found [...]

Book Review - Wish You Well By David Baldacci

 
Plot Summary : “This story is all about Louisa May Cardinal, a precocious twelve-year-old girl living in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her acclaimed but sadly underpaid writer father, her loving mother, and younger brother Oz. For Lou, her family’s financial struggles are invisible to her. She is a daughter who idolizes [...]

Book Review - Marked Man By William Lashner

Plot Outline : In Marked Man, the sixth book featuring Victor Carl a Philadelphia Attorney, who this time starts the novel hung over and with no memory of the previous evening. This would be bad enough, but he has a lasting memento of his wild night: a tattoo on his chest with the name Chantal [...]

Book Review - The Footprints of God By Greg Iles

I liked the whole mix of Science and religion, philisophical and meta-physical ideals.  Keep an open mind and you will see what a gem this book is! Oh and don’t forget to read the Epilogue.
 Plot outline :-
In The Footprints of God, author Greg Iles has combined scientific facts and religion in a most dexterous manner to [...]