There are two things that bothered with this book.First of all, I thought I would read a mystery/thriller with a serial killer on the loose and I found myself uncovering a historical spy thriller. Interesting but not what I wanted to read. The worst thing was that it tried to pretend to explore b...
R.J. Ellory's "A Simple Act of Violence" begins as a standard police procedural. A woman is murdered in Washington D.C., and the crime scene has the same markings as in three previous murders. The perpetrator is dubbed the Ribbon Killer because of signature ribbons left behind at the scenes. At t...
This was my first Ellory novel, and knowing nothing about the author or book I started it without much idea what to expect. The book opens with a murder and it seems from early on that this will be a police procedural with a stereotypical misfit detective as our protagonist hunting an elusive ser...
Many years ago, John Costello survived a horrific attack by the serial killer known as the "Hammer of God". Fast forward to present day New York, and John is working as a researcher for a newspaper. Ray Irving is a New York cop, a bit of a loner, who has suffered the loss of a loved one. He is ca...
Another fantastic book by R J Ellory, but I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the others, particularly Candlemoth, but it's extremely enjoyable and I couldn't put it down. I won't go into the plot details, as this is covered by other reviewers, but I particularly liked (and I know I shouldn't!) Er...
Bad Signs is a terrific interpretation of the American 'killer on the loose' road movie, set in an expertly realised, rolling landscape of wide horizons and hidden, intimate horrors. Each sleepy small town presents itself to the travellers as the superficial embodiment of the American dream; each...
Dik ok als thriller. Het boek ontspint zich als een roadmovie waarin twee halfbroers het trauma van een gijzeling totaal verschillend verwerken. Ellory neemt de tijd om de ontsporing van het oudste broer te schetsen, waardoor dit nooit (echt) ongeloofwaardig wordt.Bij momenten zéér bloederig en ...
I’ve been too busy to review the last few books I’ve read, but I want to make the effort and start again.OK, so I picked this off the shelf mostly because of the title. It’s a nice, lyrical title and the backcopy said it was about a young group of boys who band together to discover who is killing...