A Blow to the Heart
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The violent death of Daisy's husband leaves her a widow at 32, obliterating everything she has lived...
The House of Silk: The Bestselling Sherlock Holmes Novel
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'Horowitz has captured Holmes Heaven' (THE TIMES) - THE HOUSE OF SILK was the first official new...
The Song Rising
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Read an exclusive blog by the author about the settings for her Bone Series season A...
The Valley of Fear
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'There should be no combination of events for which the wit of man cannot conceive an explanation.'...
Hidden Killers
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A prostitute dressed in a blue rabbit fur coat walks through the darkness of Hackney Fields,...
Deadly Harvest
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A young girl goes missing after getting into a car with a mysterious man. Soon after, a second girl...
Hard Twisted
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Lucile Garrett is just thirteen when she meets Clint Palmer, a charismatic stranger who will forever...
David McK (3562 KP) rated Sierra Bravo (Harriett Walsh #3) in Books
Mar 21, 2021
Devolving, essentially, into one long drawn out siege, this novel is what I would term a light read - it's perfectly competent (probably miles better than anything I could produce), moves along at a reasonable rate, throws one or two twists in but is also, ultimately, forgettable.
NB that's not to say that I didn't enjoy my time with it - I did - just that I'm not sure if it is a novel I would want to re-read at a later date.
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Jewel of the Nile (1985) in Movies
Apr 10, 2021
The plot: Novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) is living with adventurer boyfriend Jack Colton (Michael Douglas) on his yacht. But she leaves when Omar (Spiros Focas), the head of a North African nation, asks her to visit his country and write about him. Jack intends to go on a pleasure cruise to Greece, but when he learns that Joan is a pawn in Omar's quest to polish his image and gain greater power, he partners with continent-hopping criminal Ralph (Danny DeVito) in a quest to free her.
The first one is better, but this one is good.
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Escape from New York (1981) in Movies
Feb 10, 2021
The plot: In 1997, a major war between the United States and the Soviet Union is concluding, and the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a giant maximum security prison. When Air Force One is hijacked and crashes into the island, the president (Donald Pleasence) is taken hostage by a group of inmates. Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), a former Special Forces soldier turned criminal, is recruited to retrieve the president in exchange for his own freedom.
The cast is full of people who have or will work will john carpenter. Kurt Russell, Nick Castle, Tom Atkins, Donald Pleaseance, Jamie Lee Curtis and Nancy Stephens all in this film.
Its a excellent movie.