BookScore

“First in a new series of spy thrillers.
I met this author and introduced him to a group, he is a very nice chap and talented as a writer. He described a very cunning escape scene from his latest novel.
This first one introduces us to Daniel Marchant, M15 and on the run, literally. It all kicks off with a suicide bomber in the London marathon.
Certainly a page turner with plenty of twists.
Holidays will fly by and this for me is ideal novel for that purpose.

Score 6/10

Date read May 2013

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“Mmmm where to start with this one? Helen Dunmore is a very well considered literary novelist and her novels The Siege and The Betrayal are absolutely worth the read. This is a departure to a ghost story.
The time is 1952 and a young married couple move to a Yorkshire village where he busies himself as the new doctor leaving his new wife to be just that. They rent rooms in a house with an odd landlady. When a Greatcoat is found it unlocks a ghostly visitor and the story develops from there.
Where I have a problem is that it isn’t sure if it’s a suspense or a romance, it’s intending to be both which doesn’t work for me, I’d signed up to have the shit scared out of me not worry if the husband will discover his wife’s upto something (or is she?)!

Score 3.5/10

Date read August 2012

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