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It looks like an ordinary break in at the home of artist Zoe Grant. Called to the scene, Detective Garda Cathy Connolly discovers the bones of a baby sewn into the hem of an old wedding dress. The dress’ original owner, Lavinia Grant, is Zoe’s grandmother, a very successful businesswoman. When Lavinia is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Cathy is ...

I was at Smart Bookshop in Permaisuri Imperial City Mall when I saw books of Enid Blyton on some shelves.  It really stirred up a lot of nostalgia. When I was a kid, I was captivated by her books which played a big part in instilling in me a love of reading. I was particularly addicted to The Secret Seven ...

It was in November 1966 when 12-year-old John Michael Adams, after repeated bullying by two 14-year-old girls, decided to get even. He walked into the school’s playground and threw petrol all over the two girls before setting them alight. Unflustered, he then calmly walked away. One of the girls died and the other was seriously burned. The tragedy sent the ...

They say every marriage has its secrets. But no one sees what happens behind closed doors. And sometimes those doors should never be opened … Between You And Me by Lisa Hall is a simple psychological thriller with the mother of all twists revealed in the second last chapter. I totally did not see the twist coming. When it was ...

Helsinki Blood by James Thompson is the fourth book in the explosive Finnish-based crime series featuring Inspector Kari Vaara. I have not read the first three books entitled Snow Angels, Lucifer’s Tears and Helsinki White so I am a bit lost with the flashbacks to what happened in Helsinki White. Inspector Vaara, struggling from physical and psychological toll after his ...

Having really enjoyed CJ Carver’s Spare Me the Truth, I started reading Tell Me a Lie with great expectations. I wasn’t disappointed for it is a solid A-grade thriller with lots of high-octane action and adrenalin rush. The Calder family in England is massacred, with the father Adrian left holding the shotgun. It seems to be an open and shut ...

Spare Me The Truth by CJ Carver is a roller-coaster of a read, full of twists and turns that will keep you riveted. Dan Forrester, suffering from dissociative amnesia, is trying to piece his life back together after the tragic death of his young son. While shopping in a supermarket with his daughter, he  is approached by a woman who ...

A taboo subject. That’s what The Kingdom of Childhood by Rebecca Coleman is about. It is a genuinely disturbing drama of a sexual relationship between a forty-something lady teacher and an underage student. It’s sick and twisted and just plain wrong but you can’t stop reading it.  It also sounds like it could be plucked from the headlines. Judy McFarland ...

Let’s be honest. We all have those days. All of us have experienced a split second surge of anger when some stupid motorists cut into our lane without giving any signal and we have to hit our brakes to avoid a collision. Or we may find ourselves behind a car whose driver is texting while driving and the car seems ...

EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey was such a huge success that writing erotica became the in thing and we saw a slew of Fifty Shades imitators hoping to cash in. Historical biographer Lisa Hilton‘s literary agent also advised her to make a foray into erotica and the result is Maestra, a much-hyped romp through Europe’s billionaire playgrounds billed in ...