Joo's Book Reviews and Interviews

Emily is heading home on the tube.  It's well past midnight and the train is fairly quiet.  Then it stops and all the lights go out. T...

Tony has just been dumped and he feels his life is going nowhere fast.  His colleague suggests he becomes a mentor to a troubled teenager an...

Untouchable is not a happy read. Maya is the happiest girl alive as she goes to work.  She's absolutely distraught by the time she goe...

Wayne is at his desk at the admissions hall to Hell.  Lottie enters and Wayne's life - or neverending death - is not the same again.  Wh...

Tony's been on his biggest adventure yet.  It was probably his most researched and planned one too.  But ............. well, Tony.  The ...

We're back in Pitkirtly for the 11th time (12th if you include the Mysterious Pitkirtlycoach tour).  Something's not quite right thi...

This follows on from Faust 2.0.  The two characters at the end of that one are incarcerated.  Dan in normal prison, Sarah in a top secret o...

Hmmmm.  Now this is a book that would be on its own shelf in my virtual bookcase.  I have no idea why I read it (apart from I liked a previo...

A boy's body is found in the marshes.  DCI Morton is on the case, but he just cannot find out who this young lad is.  Nobody is reported...

This is the fourth in the Gavin Shawlens series, but Gavin takes a back seat in this one.  Alexa is a leading scientist in the fracking ind...

Clowns, or clownz - fun circus characters or evil monsters?  There's no doubt which type this book is about, the nasty, evil, serial kil...

This is a story of revenge and tunnels.  Tuesday is a killer, but she kills those who deserve it. A favourite reviewer said this is a roll...

Since Chris' father died when he was a boy, Chris has been haunted by nightmares.  But now it is coming to a head and his son is getting...

A bloke wakes up in a car on a cold street.  What is he doing there  Who is he? And so our story starts.  We quickly find out that the man...

First off, I'm not and will never be an author.  Second off, this is a very funny book that is not just for authors. Yes, this is a ve...

This is the second in this author's Danger Cove mysteries.  It seems there are many authors writing about life in the town of Danger Cov...

This is a "bonus" novella in the Pitkirtly series.  Someone's organised a coach trip round Pitkirtly to all the murder spots. ...

Hmmmm.  Where do I start on my brief description of this story?  In England at Heathrow Airport?  In BallyMcBunion, Texas at the Mexas Grill...

Stranded is the third book in the Flick Carter series and follows straight on from Hunted. Flick, Shea and PJ find themselves trapped on a...

As with Nick Spalding's other novels we have the "he said / she said" swapping forth of chapters.  I enjoy this method of gett...