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Book reviews and reader log for Thriller

The Guest List

★★★★★
A celebrity destination wedding is happening on a remote island off Ireland. Following a blackout, a body is discovered, but every guest has a secret to hide...

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The 39 Steps

★★★★★
The original spy-thriller; a mining engineer on vacation is caught up in an international conspiracy involving assassinations, disguises, shady backroom dealings and shifty Germans

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The Searcher

★★★★★
Cal, a retired police officer from the US, now settled in rural Ireland, is approached by a local kid for help looking for a missing brother.

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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

★★★★☆
Pippa Fitz-Amobi starts investigating a murder as a high-school project, but the secrets she uncovers are ones that no one wants to face

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The Andromeda Strain

★★★★☆
A group of scientists race against time in a special facility to contain an alien organism.

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The Snowman

★★★★★
Detective Harry Hole is investigating a case where several young mothers have gone missing, with a snowman being left at the scene. Harry is personally being toyed with by the killer too, as he receives ominous communiques from the purpoted killer...

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The Lincoln Lawyer

★★★★☆
Mickey Haller is a criminal defense lawyer who works from the back of his Lincoln Town Car, mostly with decidedly guilty clients. Then a very high-paying job drops in his lap, where the client insists he is innocent...

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Eileen

★★★☆☆
For subdued Eileen, life holds little charm. Dead-end job. An abusive, alcoholic father. But when the vivacious Rebecca joins her workplace, the doors of her imagination open...

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Out

★★★★★
Following a random act of violence, four japanese women get embroiled in the cover up of the crime, and fight to contain the fallout and maintain their own sanity...

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Bad Luck And Trouble

★★☆☆☆
One Reacher is tolerable, barely. Four of them isn't four times the fun.

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In a Dark, Dark Wood

★★☆☆☆
Nora is invited to a former friend's hen-do in an isolated house in the woods. But someone ends up dead, and everyone is a suspect.

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The Silent Patient

★★★★☆
A criminal psychotherapist joins a facility with the specific aim of working with one of their celebrity inmates, painter Alicia Berenson. Does he just want the publicity, or does he have a more sinister motive...

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The Wife

★★☆☆☆
Angela is married to celebrated author and economics professor. When he gets caught up in sexual harrasment case, her loyalty to him threatens to unveil her own dark secrets.

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Big Little Lies

★★★★★
Things get out of hand at a school fundraising event, and one of the Kindergarden parents ends up dead. And as the mystery of the death is examined, each of the parents' perfect little lives also unravels.

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Tell No One

★★★★☆
Gripping thriller in which a widower doctor is suddenly thrust into a whirlwind of life-threatening scenarios, starting when he gets a mail from beyond the grave...

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The Guns of Navarone

★★★★☆
Several attempts have been made to silence the guns of Navarone, but all have failed. A small team of experienced mountaineers and saboteurs make one last attempt... the lives of 1200 men are at stake.

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