All posts tagged "Thriller"
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1.5KEntertainmentFilm Review: Mortal Engines
Christian Rivers's dystopian adventure feature.
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1.7KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Scent of Fear, by Tony Park
An Afghanistan War veteran finds himself and his team the target of South African game hunters, turning the problem of local poaching into a deadly game.
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3.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Absolute Proof, by Peter James
Reporter Ross Hunter receives a phone call from a Dr Harry Cook, who tells Hunter that he has irrefutable proof of God’s existence, beginning a worldwide search for the items that will support the revelation.
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1.6KFilm & TVAdelaide Film Festival: Knife + Heart
Yann Gonzalez pays homage to exploitation and slasher films while still finding room for emotional distress.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Spectrum of Scarlett Tanner, by Elizabeth Calder
Welcome to the secret world of Scarlett Tanner, agent for the foreign intelligence organisation Spectrum.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Boy at the Keyhole, by Stephen Giles
Nine-year-old Samuel begins to suspect foul play when he wakes one morning to be told by his housekeeper that his Mother had to go away on an overseas trip without any prior warning or saying goodbye.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Thief of Light, by Bernard Schaffer
An ambitious young cop suspects there's more to random, horrific murders in her small town and stumbles upon the first known a serial killer whose M.O. is constantly changing . . .
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1.6KFilm & TVFilm Review: Kin
A fast-action, sci-fi, crime thriller.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Wife, by Alafair Burke
Six years after leaving his position as a university economics professor, Jason Powell's idyllic life with his wife and child is shattered by accusations of sexual harassment against him from former university colleagues.
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804Film & TVFilm Review: You Were Never Really Here.
A disturbing portrait of the evil corruption that is rampant among those in power.
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851Books & LiteratureBook Review: Fatal Inheritance, by Rachel Rhys
Eve Forrester escapes a loveless marriage in 1948 and journeys to the French Riviera after a mysterious bequest is left in her name but, while she rubs shoulders with the rich and famous, rivals to her unexplained fortune begin to emerge. Rivals who want her out of the way.
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1.8KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Liar, Liar, by James Patterson & Candice Fox
Detective Harriet Blue is on the opposite side of the law, hunting a serial killer but this time she intends no mercy. Harry, a good cop gone really bad and is determined to be the one who pulls the trigger.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Devil’s Half Mile, by Paddy Hirsch
In the 1700s, Justy Flanagan returns to Manhattan, New York with new evidence in hand to seek the truth of his father’s death, believing his supposed suicide was actually murder.
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856Books & LiteratureBook Review: Closer Than You Know, by Brad Parks
Melanie, a former foster child, has clawed her way through life and a university degree into a normal, if busy, existence but when she heads off to pick up her baby from day care one day, she finds Social Services have removed the child into foster care.
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1.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: No Turning Back, by Sam Blake
Tragedy strikes a town when two university students meet an untimely end on the same fateful night, one from a hit-and-run and the other from an apparent suicide.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Russian Affair, by Adrian d’Hage
An egomaniacal US President, a power hungry Russian President, and a call to nuclear arms pits CIA operative Connor Curtis in a race against time following the pursuits of a Russian scientist whose approach is deadly, in more ways than one.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Mine, by Susi Fox
A doctor wakes after an emergency caesarean, and no-one believes her when she says the baby is not her own. But when everyone says you're just confused and delusional, can you trust your own memories?
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862Books & LiteratureBook Review: Baby Teeth, by Zoje Stage
Hanna is her father’s pride and joy who can do no wrong, and she wants to make sure that it stays that way. There is only one problem: Mummy stands in the way.
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1.0KEntertainmentFilm Review: Hereditary
Hereditary is the must-see horror hit of 2018 which leaves its audience in shock, disturbed uncertainty and muscle-clenching tension.
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3.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Chalk Man, by CJ Tudor
As the 30th anniversary of a murder approaches, an old child gang reunite, triggered by a letter each has received with a piece of chalk, and a drawing of a stick figure.
