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I became a fan of Tom Wood after reading his “The Final Hour” about a fortnight ago. It was thus with high expectation  that I began reading his “Kill For Me.” And I can only say “Wow!” Kill For Me is explosively propulsive, kicking off with a bang! Lethal assassin Victor is in Guatemala for a gun purchase for his ...

Today is Li Chun (立春), the first festival of the Chinese solar year. Li Chun means the beginning of Spring and it is a time when we all look forward to a fresh revitalised beginning. Among the older Chinese generation, today is a very significant day. Many hold the belief that depositing money into the banks during Li Chun symbolises ...

The dead don’t tell secrets…….unless you listen. Westerley research facility is not for the faint-hearted. It is a body farm doing research into human decomposition with human corpses in various stages of decay lying around in the open fields. Detective Kim Stone and her team have been sent to Westerley for a visit to look into the possibility of the ...

Hundreds of thousands of little Davids took on the all-powerful Goliaths of Wall Street and won! It sounds almost like a fairy tale. It also demonstrates the power of unity. I am talking about the GameStop Insanity. GameStop, the brick-and-mortar video game retailer with more than 5,000 outlets in malls and shopping centers across USA, suddenly became the darling of retail investors. ...

Dead Souls by Angela Marsons is a gripping, emotional and addictive novel that kept me captivated from start to finish. With a dark main theme, the author tackles racism and hate crimes in this thriller, challenging our perceptions and beliefs. The book opens with a disturbing scene in which a teenage boy commits suicide after writing a letter to his mother. Though it’s evident he’s ...

Tom Wood’s “The Final Hour” is a helluva brutal novel featuring a ruthless hitman and an enigmatic femme fatale. It is filled with tension and thrilling action, another home run for the author. It is little wonder that the author has established himself as one of the best British thriller authors. Victor is the ultimate hitman who surfaces to kill ...

I took a look at the following synopsis from the back cover of Alex Lake’s “Seven Days”and it intrigued me immediately, becoming the first novel that I have read in 2021. It has turned out to be a fantastic start to my reading journey for the year! A race against time to save her child… In seven days, Maggie’s son, ...

For many years now, I have been having recurring dreams about being lost in some foreign countries. In a dream many years ago, I was lost in an area near a small lake when I saw a lion on the opposite side of the lake. On seeing me, the lion ran round the small lake heading towards me. I was ...

This world is full of brokenness – broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations, broken families, broken dreams. We are all broken in some ways. How we respond to our brokenness is a reflection of our strength and resilience. Some of us choose to grow strong at the broken places. Some of us choose to unpack and live in brokenness. Nothing is perfect in ...

Kevin Kwan is an author who needs little introduction after the immense success of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy. I would be the first to admit that the trilogy really held me captive as I followed the theatrics of Asia’s super rich. So when Kevin Kwan’s new stand-alone novel “Sex and Vanity” arrived at Popular Bookstore in Miri a few months ago, I ...