CY@CY Says Welcome to my dreamscape. Where a Lim is also a Ling.

I see many dead trees all around Miri and I used to wonder why they are not cut down. But now I know why. Standing dead and dying trees are called “snags.”  Such trees occur as a result of disease, lightning, fire, animal damage, too much shade, drought, root competition, as well as old age. Many dead trees remain standing without posing a threat ...

In Hope to Die, top notch crime author David Jackson taunts the readers with a tale of gruesome murders, served with an addictive blend of authentic police procedural and breathtaking insight into the minds of both hunters and hunted. Hope to Die by David Jackson Mary Cowper is viciously murdered in the grounds of Liverpool’s  Anglican Cathedral on a bitterly cold and snowy ...

Three British couples befriend each other while on holiday in Florida. Their sojourn  should be nothing but relaxing for veteran visitors Ed and Susan Dunning as well as for novices Angela and Barry Finnegan and Marina Green and Dave Cullen. They meet up from time to time for a drink or a meal. On their last day of their holiday, their perfect ...

Jane Tennison is a young probationary police Constable who has set her sights on becoming a detective. She becomes a decoy in a CID case, posing as a prostitute to lure a suspect accused of many sexual assaults. She is assaulted by the suspect but her colleagues succeed in arresting the suspect. Jane is then promoted to the rank of Detectice Constable but she becomes ...

Love Like Blood by Mark Billingham casts the spotlight on the very controversial and sensitive subject of honour killings. Honour killings are the killings of a family member due to perceived loss of honour caused by the behaviour of the said family member. Honour killings are being carried out frequently despite the public outrage.  Murdering the very people whom you should love and protect is truly horrifying. Arriving ...

Bodily Harm by Robert Dugoni opens with David Sloane and his partner Tom Pendergress winning a multi-million dollar medical malpractice suit against a well-known pediatrician Dr Douvalidis centered on the death of a young child. But the victory turns sour when the doctor commits suicide and an unlikely character, toy designer Kyle Horgan, contacts Sloane to tell him that he’s gotten it all wrong: Horgan admits he is the one ...

Blood Ties by Sam Hayes is a gritty tale of child abduction, prostitution, child abuse, past traumas, family secrets and betrayals. Multiple narrators blend in the story and from different timelines. Some of the raw human emotions in this domestic suspense novel will cut you like a knife, making you feel the pain each character is experiencing. The book grabs me from the start. ...

I have never read any of Peter James’ books before so I did not know what to expect when I started reading  his A Twist of the Knife, a varied collection of 30 short stories. As with any book of short stories I find some of the stories really good but there are others that I feel indifferent to.  Three of ...

Set against the backdrop of Kenya’s December 2007 turbulent and corrupt election for a new president,  The Honey Guide by Richard Crompton brings Nairobi and its tribal tensions to life. The Honey Guide by Richard Crompton The Honey Guide introduces Mollel, a former Maasai warrior, who was once a homicide detective but was moved to traffic after a nervous breakdown ...

It is 1993. Young and inexperienced Garda Cormac Reilly answers a call for help and  witnesses  a scene that will haunt him forever. Two silent, neglected children – fifteen-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack – are waiting for him at a crumbling country house. Upstairs, their mother Hilaria Blake lies dead from an apparent drug overdose. Fast forward 20 years to 2013. Surgical resident ...