Buried Lies - Jenny O'Brien

I found that this was a nice and easy read, with likeable characters and a plot line that seemed to flow effortlessly. 

 This is the 5th (and my first), in the Gabby Darin series. Do you need to have partaken in the others? The easy answer to that is no. The characters are well rounded, as they should be this far into a series. 

 

Set around Llandudno, and Conwy mostly. 

 

It follows Hannah Thomas, a nurse with a fiance, and a young son. With a jaded past, which has caught up with her.

A break to a spa, with a friend. returning home after a weekend away. To find her fiance dead in his car, apparently by his own hand, and her son missing.

That is as much as I am going to let on.

What lies ahead, the investigation, the private lives and the entwinement of them all.

I read this in two sittings of just over 90 mins each. It really is that easy of a read, and not in a bad way. This was my first book by this author, and I will be looking into her other works.

Status: Completed.

Rating: 4.6/5.0

The Day of the Serpent - Cassandra Clark

 

Not really being one for historical fiction, I found myself being unusually drawn to this.

I  won't lie, it seemed to take an age to read. Almost two weeks from cover to cover. But, I kept finding myself reuturning to it, even if infrequently.

Take one friar, a group of highly trained archers, a disposed (assumed dead) king. And one of the most natural driving forces, revenge.

A tale of men on foot, a fanatical arch-bishop and a wannabe king on a massive power trip driven by madness.

We follow, the friar and the bowmen. Travelling from Pontefract Castle to London, with the assumed dead body of the de-throned King Richard. Following a spate of killings, the travelling party is alert. With their paymaster up in arms about the killing of his men.

The friar is entrusted, to find the person who has commited these crimes. Having alreday fallen in with the bowmen, he suspects them, but never outs them. Friendship holds his tongue.

Chauser, make appearances in the tale, trying to smuggle out his own tales to preserve them for future times.

Like I said, I found it to be a slow read, but read it I did, and it evaded the DNF pile. So it had qualities enough for me to finish it.

Satatus: Completed

Rating: 3.8/5.0

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This Charming Man - C K McDonnell

 

This is a first for me.

You are number two in the TBR queue, please hold till a reader becomes available. Your book is important to me.

An ARC was made available by Random House for this the second in the Stranger Times.

If you are intrested, there is a review for the original book on this blog. But you'd have to look for yourself, as the person who does links is out to lunch.

The Villain - Oris Hunt

 

A lady of the night, found dead in a public park. Her final movemnts carefullly traced and tracked. A killer known, but proof, not there.

We follow Cord and Force. Two police investigators, as they piece together the movements of a killer of whom they are certain that they know the identity of. 

The number of dead slwoly starts to rise, as clues start to comer together. The witnesses, vanish in plain sight into body bags as they are permenantly removed from being able to identitify the killer.

The only persomn to give a positive ID, the madam from an exclusive brothel. Dead. A reporter on the more make believe side of tihngs who has a passing interest in proceedings dead.

  What starts out as a mystery, turns into a modern day Romeo & Juliette played out along the lines of the massacre of the Russian royal family in the early part of the 20th Century.

 

Pieced together in a patchwork of findings, the smallest detail of which are all found in earlier parts, a police cover up of the highest degree.

 

Slow to start, but gradually builds in pace, until you reach the brick wall of an ending.

 

Status: Complete

 

Rating 4.7/5.0