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Book Review: The Affair by Lee Child

This is another in the Jack Reacher series. This one goes back in time a bit to 1997 and gives some explanation to why Reacher left the army, but not really why he became a wanderer.

The novel follows the usual pattern of Reacher coming to a small town. This time he is investigating as an MP the deaths of some very pretty women near an army base in the south of the USA. He hooks up with a very pretty policewoman and together they set traps to try and catch the perpetrator.

The action also switches to the Pentagon at times and Lee Child makes reference to 9/11 and the comparisons of pre this time.

The novel for me is a bit slow and it took me weeks to finish reading this book. It filled in a bit of background but as a book I found it a bit slow and ponderous. The series seems a bit tired now, time for a change?

7/10 for me.

Book Review: Comeback by Dick Francis

Several valuable racehorses have unexplained deaths and Foreign Office diplomat Peter Darwin uncovers part of the plot involving a veterinary surgeon.

Darwin is on holiday in Miami (one of Dick Francis's haunts) where he becomes caught up in a scuffle involving two acquaintances who are beaten and robbed. He goes with his new friends back to Gloucestershire in England and his old childhood home town. This is where he stumbles upon the plot of the vet.

The novel focuses on Darwin as he unravels the mystery for us before our readers eyes as we are ridden across the pages again with Dick Francis firmly in the saddle.

8/10 for me.

Book Review: Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs

Another in the excellent Temperence Brennan series, compelling reading and for me much better than the Patricia Cornwell novels of a similar genre. In this novel Temp is in Guatemala investigating corpses from 1982 when soldiers ravaged a village.

There are no records for the dead, it is Temp's task to help to identify them. When she is packing up for the day she takes a phone call and hears shots from the other end of the line and a woman's screams. Then there is just silence.

Temp is then requested by the police to help on another investigation too where four young women have vanished from Guatemala City over the past couple of months. Some remains are discovered in a septic tank.

The plot soon explodes and the cases all come together. Detective Andrew Ryan and Special Crimes Investigator Bartolome Galiano are also helping to solve the case too.

Not one of my favourite ones, so 8/10.

Book Review: Longshot by Dick Francis

John Kendall, the hero in this 1990 novel did something that I wish I had the nerve to do, he quit his day job to write a novel. However, he then volunteers to write the biography of a National Hunt trainer called Tremayne Vickers.

We are back in the cosy, horse world of Dick Francis once again. The hero is also a survival expert and he needs to be in this situation. Kendall is taken into the family of Vickers and seems to have landed on his feet. However two recent deaths in the family and you know that peace is not going to reign for too long!

One of the murder victims is Angela Brickell, a missing stable girl. Her body is found, and the question becomes, who killed her? It could be Nolan, an amateur jockey who was recently convicted of accidental manslaughter; it could be Harry, a friend who may have had an affair with the young girl. The police inspector on the case tries to use Kendall to get to the truth.

8/10 for me.

Book Review: Straight by Dick Francis

Straight was published in 1989 and this novel by Dick Francis finds Derek Franklin recovering from a riding accident when his brother Greville dies unexpetedly. Derek is the sole heir and soon discovers that his brother has hidden some diamonds. He also has to learn about precious stones generally.

As his brother was nineteen years older than him, Derek also discovers things about his brother's life too. This is also a voyage of discovery for him too. Greville loved gadgets and puzzles so this novel is a good mystery that Dick Francis plays very well.

He also inherits horses from his brother but he is not allowed to own a racehorse as a jockey. Another problem that his brother has left him with.

A good novel with some great twists and turns.

9/10 from me.

Book Review: Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs

Temperance Brennan in this third novel by Kathy Reichs featuring her is investigating a plane crash in North Carolina's Smoky Mountains. Temperance is a forensic anthropologist. The mystery is that she finds a human bone at the crash scene of someone who could not have been on the plane.

The descriptions of the crash scene are great. The mixture of sadness, grief yet somehow professionals doing their jobs in these extreme circumstances comes over very well.

There is also plenty of love interest with Andrew Ryan in this novel as well as Pete the ex-husband clearly on the scene too. I like to read about Temp's personal life too and how this develops through the novels.

However, Temp is kicked off the investigation team when she is set up by a supervisor. Temp is then on the case to get back on the case as well as clearing her name too.

This is one of the best Kathy Reichs for me, I read this some years ago but I can vividly remember this novel, particularly the early scenes.

9/10 for me.