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Hazel (2934 KP) rated Cry Baby in Books

Aug 9, 2020  
Cry Baby
Cry Baby
Mark Billingham | 2020 | Crime, Thriller
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I am a huge fan of Mark Billingham and of his character, Tom Thorne, and have avidly followed the series and so I was absolutely thrilled to see a prequel was available which went back to the beginning in 1996 when "portable" phones are a novelty, smoking in pubs was the norm and England weren't doing too badly in the Euro's!

Tom is a young Detective Sergeant going through a bit of a rough patch after separating from his wife and experiencing recurring nightmares of an old case when along comes every persons worst nightmare ... the abduction of a little boy from a local park. The book follows the investigation into the abduction where everyone is a suspect and the mystery deepens when the body of one of those suspects turns up, quickly followed by the body of the boy's father.

This is a tense read written mainly from the perspectives of Tom, Cat (mother of the abducted child) and Kieron (the abducted child); the pace built up as the investigation progressed and I loved it. I particularly enjoyed meeting the characters that I have grown to love at the beginnings of their relationship with a particular highlight being the first meeting between Tom and Phil Hendricks which made me literally laugh out loud.

I would most definitely recommend this book and you don't have to have read any of the others in the series as this makes a really good starting point for those of you who haven't discovered the delight that is Tom Thorne and who have clearly been living under a rock!!

I was extremely lucky to have won a copy of this book via a Facebook competition but thanks also to Little, Brown Book Group via NetGalley for an e-copy in return for an unbiased and honest review.
  
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Wittsend (43 KP) rated Can you Hear Me? in Books

Jul 28, 2017  
Can you Hear Me?
Can you Hear Me?
by Elena Varvello, Alex Valente (Translator) | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
4
4.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I did enjoy the book and know that this book will stay with me a for a while. (0 more)
In sections where there are no speech marks when characters talk to each other putt me off slightly. I am unsure if this was a writing tool to separate particular sections or sections that focus on Elia’s father, put me off slightly. (0 more)
Can you Hear Me
A very emotionally intense coming of age story of a teenage boy and his relationship with his family, neighbours and especially his paranoid and inconsolable and father. I thought extraordinarily beautiful coming of age tale that There is a crime element that leaves you with a feeling of uncomfortable tensions that create a chilling account of an abduction and a teenage boy desperately trying to come to terms with his dangerously unhinged father.