26 reviews tagged with "novel, mystery, murder"

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Dissolution by C J Sansom

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Set in England at the time of King Henry VIII and his dissolution of the monasteries, this murder mystery starts with the sending of lawyer and reformist Matthew Shardlake to a Benedictine monastery where the previous commissioner had been found...

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Reviewed by ManicMammy via on 25 Aug 2008.

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Pineapple Express (2008)

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google_ad_section_start After Seth Rogen and his buddy Evan Goldberg wrote the script for Superbad when they were 15 years old, they also were itching to write a script for an action movie, but with a twist. Nobody has done this before: if an action...

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Reviewed by Maxim via on 13 Aug 2008.

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Double Fault by Lionel Shriver

*****

So Wimbledon was in progress, I was in my local bookshop and this novel caught my eye. Its the story of Willy, a low ranking tennis professional on the way up when we first encounter her. She's been playing tennis since aged four and is now...

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Reviewed by ManicMammy via on 18 Jul 2008.

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Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

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Easy to read, page turner of a novel whose main character is Peter, a bullied teenager, who heads into high school one morning armed and kills ten people. I found many of the characters to be cliched and a bit one dimensional. But despite that the...

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Reviewed by ManicMammy via on 03 Jul 2008.

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My Favourite Wife by Tony Parsons

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Having read and enjoyed “Man and Boy” and “One for my baby”, I was looking forward to reading this latest novel from Tony Parsons. Alas it was a major disappointment. Having just finished it, I am left with a sense of...

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Reviewed by ManicMammy via on 30 Mar 2008.

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In the Woods by Tana French

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My mother in law lent me this book a few weeks ago and it was a good read up to a point. My main gripe is its very disappointing ending which then tarred the whole novel as I wondered “why the hell did I bother reading that?” Its set in...

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Reviewed by ManicMammy via on 06 Mar 2008.

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