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Tag: thrillers

Review of ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’ by Patricia Highsmith

03/03/2023 nsford 2 Comments

Who is Mr Ripley and what are his talents? In this classic thriller novel, first published in 1955, we follow…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, classics, crime fiction, Patricia Highsmith, reviews, thrillers

Review of ‘A Kiss Before Dying’ by Ira Levin

02/02/2023 nsford 4 Comments

Ira Levin was only twenty-three when his debut novel was published. A Kiss Before Dying is a crime thriller set…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, crime fiction, Ira Levin, reviews, thrillers

Review of ‘Breathless’ by Amy McCulloch

08/12/2022 nsford Leave a comment

An ice-cold thriller set on the eighth-highest mountain in the world, Manaslu in Nepal. It didn’t encourage me to go…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: Amy McCulloch, books, fiction, reviews, thrillers

Review of ‘The Thunder Girls’ by Melanie Blake

19/08/2022 nsford 6 Comments

A fabulously entertaining thriller. Even though it’s over 500 pages long (the ebook edition, that is), there’s never a dull…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, Melanie Blake, music, reviews, thrillers

Review of ‘The Festival’ by Sarah J Naughton

15/08/2022 nsford Leave a comment

A chilling psychological thriller which kept me guessing. I thought it had a few too many characters and became confused…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, reviews, Sarah J Naughton, thrillers

Review of ‘Before I Go To Sleep’ by S J Watson

23/07/2022 nsford 2 Comments

I read this book 10 years ago. I believe that it was among the first of our current trend for…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, reviews, S J Watson, thrillers

Review of ‘The House Across the Lake’ by Riley Sager

26/06/2022 nsford Leave a comment

This seemed rather a thriller-by-numbers… until three quarters of the way through, when it took a strange turn and was…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, reviews, Riley Sager, thrillers

Review of ‘Upgrade’ by Blake Crouch

21/06/2022 nsford 2 Comments

I was excited to read this new book from the author of Dark Matter and Recursion. Sadly it did not…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: Blake Crouch, books, reviews, science fiction, thrillers

Review of ‘Three Assassins’ by Kotaro Isaka

11/04/2022 nsford 2 Comments

A fast-paced thriller from the author of Bullet Train. It’s worth noting that although this English translation by Sam Malissa…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, Kotaro Isaka, reviews, thrillers, translations

Review of ‘Insomnia’ by Sarah Pinborough

25/03/2022 nsford Leave a comment

This psychological thriller lives up to its name! You’ll be kept awake turning the pages. If you actually want to…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, fiction, reviews, Sarah Pinborough, thrillers

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