Category: Crime & Mystery

BOOK REVIEW: Domina by Lisa Hilton

BOOK REVIEW: Domina by Lisa Hilton

Posted July 4, 2017 by @amanhimself in 5 Stars, Book Reviews, Crime & Mystery / 0 Comments

Published in April, 2017 Published in India: May, 2017 Pages 400, Paperback Judging this book by its cover 4/5 Goodreads | Amazon Sequel to last year’s “first class thriller” Maestra which sold in more than 43 countries and soon to be turned into a movie is finally out. Written by Lisa Hilton, charmingly, both of her books, Maestra and Domina are in regard of a competitor to Fifty Shades of Grey, another bestseller, but after reading, I think there’s more than Fifty Shades in her books. Her plot creation is full of thrilling effects, and a piece of her imagination equals more than just Fifty Shades.

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BOOK REVEW: The Last Hack by Christopher Brookmyre

BOOK REVEW: The Last Hack by Christopher Brookmyre

Posted June 28, 2017 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Crime & Mystery / 0 Comments

Expected publication: July 4th 2017 by Atlantic Monthly Press Pages: 432 I have read and reviewed many British crime writers because they have that thrill even without much action, and generating that feeling of thrill & noir through their words is a skill of few. Christopher Brookmyre brings that thrills back to me in his latest book, The Last Hack which is part of continuing series about a reporter Jack Parlabane. Before getting into details, let me brief you about the story this book revolves around. Do not worry, no spoilers here. This story is told through the perspectives of Jack and Sam. Two interesting characters with a very different background and set of actions. Sam Morpeth has had to […]

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REVIEW: Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case by Agatha Christie

REVIEW: Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case by Agatha Christie

Posted February 7, 2017 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Crime & Mystery, Thrillers / 0 Comments

I must confess the Hercule Poirot is not one of my favourite detectives. Not even close. But that’s personal opinion. What I enjoy most Poirot’s cases or I must say, Agatha Christie’s writing is the how the cases unfold in the end after reaching the climax. This book has a brilliant ending, that’s all. No spoilers. I enjoy her writing which never fails to create a tension on the reader to get to the end of it. And Then There Were None is the best case scenario.

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BOOK REVIEW: Rather Be The Devil by Ian Rankin

BOOK REVIEW: Rather Be The Devil by Ian Rankin

Posted November 10, 2016 by @amanhimself in 5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Crime & Mystery, Thrillers / 0 Comments

Rebus is back. And he’s not getting old, age seem just a number for him and his creator, Ian Rankin. He’s 21 books old now. Rather Be The Devil is the new entitlement released on November, 3rd. When I heard earlier this year that Ian Rankin has rejected to my request for an interview with for a third time in three years, I thought, ‘Oh Boy! Either I am a pretty bad interviewer or he’s upto something really good. Probably a new Rebus novel. I’ll take that gladly, sir.’ Rebus is into his retirement for almost a couple of years now. But curiosity is a disease and when one’s neurone start sending the type of electrical signals, the giant awakens. […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

BOOK REVIEW: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Posted March 28, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books, Crime & Mystery, Reviews / 8 Comments

This book is for everyone. It is long, the clever sounding plot, full of characters, each one unique and have their own part to play in the story. Set in mid-nineteenth century, it is one of those books to remember for quite a time. The element of murder mystery which is highly anticipated through out the novel might sound regular to some, but it is the the presentation of the mystery that is extraordinary. When one starts this book, it has a tendency to grab a reader’s attention from the first chapter. Walter Moody is used as a pawn to unfold the mystery that is set in New Zealand goldfields. Thought him a reader is introduced to twelve sophisticated men who have gathered […]

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BOOK REVIEW: City of Bones by Michael Connelly

BOOK REVIEW: City of Bones by Michael Connelly

Posted December 20, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Crime & Mystery, Reviews / 7 Comments

When it comes to cold cases, we love one of them. We, humans, are designed in a way that digging up the past is not only a hobby or an option for some but it is rather an astonishing state of affairs for everyone. Even the crime fiction writers, such as Michael Connelly. This is though not my first experience with Connelly’s books. Previously, I read his The Lincoln Lawyer which I thought was an average book and looked better on the big screen with tanned up Matthew McConaughey and his southern accent. After getting much annoyed on listening his fans chanting his name through and through, not wanting to turn a Connelly hater but wanting to explore the world of […]

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5 Crime Fiction Novels I read in 2015

5 Crime Fiction Novels I read in 2015

Posted December 17, 2015 by @amanhimself in Book List, Crime & Mystery / 6 Comments

I love reading Crime Fiction novels. They are intriguing, a dynamic pace is maintained by most of the authors in their works and they are often surprising. Hanging Garden is Rankin’s complete novel and is 9th John Rebus novel, and becomes more fascinating. My Rating 5 out of 5! It’s winter and what will be better, if not be in Russia. At least Tom Rob Smith’s Child 44 can take us there. Stalin’s Soviet Union, a paradise in books but not in reality. This thrilling novel is the first of Leo Demidov’s trilogy. My Rating: 4 out of 5   Another gripping novel, full of thrill and after reading it, there will be some amount of adrenaline rush left inside you. Girl on […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin

BOOK REVIEW: Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin

Posted November 14, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Crime & Mystery, Reviews / 2 Comments

There are few authors who after becoming bestsellers keep on improving as a writer. With them, their characters grow, their stories become unforgettable and its a bliss for the readers. Rankin is one of them. After he got his hard work paid of with the publishing of Black and Blue in 1997 rewarding him Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger for best crime novel. Since then,  having reading almost every novel written by Rankin that includes his creation of John Rebus, a Detective Inspector who is known for bending rules, and getting the cases he is assigned, under his skin. Standing in Another Man’s Grave, came three years back and is listed as the 18th book in John Rebus series. It is […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

BOOK REVIEW: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Posted November 11, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Crime & Mystery, Reviews / 6 Comments

Northanger Abbey is a different work produced by Jane Austen, not so typical Austen novel I would say, and many times referred as a ‘Gothic Parody’. I haven’t read Jane Austen in years. Last book I remember reading of hers is Mansfield Park that I consider her best work. Most of the events described in this book take place in Bath, England and later in Northanger Abbey, an estate. Catherine Morland is this novel’s young heroine who has little experience outside her own country village until she is invited to Bath with family friends, Mr. & Mrs. Allen. In Bath she befriends two families, the Thorpes and the Tilneys. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin

BOOK REVIEW: Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin

Posted October 22, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Crime & Mystery, Reviews / 14 Comments

One of the good things about the contemporary crime fiction that can happen to itself is John Rebus and his creator Ian Rankin. Without Ian Rankin, there would have been no John Rebus. Rankin has certainly set a benchmark with his John Rebus’ series and Mortal Causes is the sixth book in this series. Without John Rebus, I won’t be reading as much crime fiction as I do. I started reading John Rebus, even before I laid my hands on Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Things are even darker than usual this time in Mortal Causes. It is August during the Edinburgh Festival when Inspector John Rebus is called to investigate a brutally tortured body found hanging in the medieval subterranean streets of Edinburgh. The death […]

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