Difference between revisions of "Top Ten Crime Novels of 2014"

From TheBookbag
Jump to navigationJump to search
Line 1: Line 1:
 
__NOTOC__
 
__NOTOC__
 
We've chosen some old favourites with their 'last in series' whom we're sure you wouldn't want to miss as well as some newcomers and we think there should be something here for all lovers of crime novels.  The books are listed alphabetically by author.
 
We've chosen some old favourites with their 'last in series' whom we're sure you wouldn't want to miss as well as some newcomers and we think there should be something here for all lovers of crime novels.  The books are listed alphabetically by author.
 +
 +
{{topten
 +
|author=David Barrie
 +
|title=Tight-Lipped
 +
|rating=4.5
 +
|genre=Crime
 +
|summary= It's a little bit different in the UK but in Paris intellectuals are lauded in much the same way as rock stars.  Jean-Jacques Marsay is a philosopher and equally as famous as his wife, the beautiful and talented actress,  Carine Dufour.  Marsay is writing a book about ''Appoghiu Terra'' - an eco-terrorist organisation -  and its leader  Gabriel Agostini.  His editor is Virginie Desmoulins - or rather was - because Virginie was murdered at her flat in a rather unusual way.  The case is being investigated by Captain Franck Guerin of the ''Brigade Criminelle'' and he and Agostini have a history.  Agostini shot and seriously wounded Guerin when Guerin was with his previous employers, the French version of the security services.  He was moved on to the ''Brigade Criminelle'' when it was thought that he might have become just a little too sympathetic to Agostini - and Agostini to him.
 +
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251889</amazonuk>
 +
}}
  
 
{{topten
 
{{topten
Line 83: Line 92:
 
|summary= The summer of the great heat wave is also the summer of death.  Stevie thought nothing of the three establishment pillars turned snipers; the news just didn't register.  Then the illness came: plague-like symptoms sweeping across the world.  When Stevie's boyfriend dies it's easy to put it down to the pandemic but Stevie has a hunch and she won't stop till she's followed it, no matter what happens or who tries to stop her.
 
|summary= The summer of the great heat wave is also the summer of death.  Stevie thought nothing of the three establishment pillars turned snipers; the news just didn't register.  Then the illness came: plague-like symptoms sweeping across the world.  When Stevie's boyfriend dies it's easy to put it down to the pandemic but Stevie has a hunch and she won't stop till she's followed it, no matter what happens or who tries to stop her.
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546513</amazonuk>
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546513</amazonuk>
}}
 
 
{{topten
 
|author=David Barrie
 
|title=Tight-Lipped
 
|rating=4.5
 
|genre=Crime
 
|summary= It's a little bit different in the UK but in Paris intellectuals are lauded in much the same way as rock stars.  Jean-Jacques Marsay is a philosopher and equally as famous as his wife, the beautiful and talented actress,  Carine Dufour.  Marsay is writing a book about ''Appoghiu Terra'' - an eco-terrorist organisation -  and its leader  Gabriel Agostini.  His editor is Virginie Desmoulins - or rather was - because Virginie was murdered at her flat in a rather unusual way.  The case is being investigated by Captain Franck Guerin of the ''Brigade Criminelle'' and he and Agostini have a history.  Agostini shot and seriously wounded Guerin when Guerin was with his previous employers, the French version of the security services.  He was moved on to the ''Brigade Criminelle'' when it was thought that he might have become just a little too sympathetic to Agostini - and Agostini to him.
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251889</amazonuk>
 
 
}}
 
}}
  

Revision as of 07:23, 30 October 2014

We've chosen some old favourites with their 'last in series' whom we're sure you wouldn't want to miss as well as some newcomers and we think there should be something here for all lovers of crime novels. The books are listed alphabetically by author.

Template:Topten

Template:Topten

Template:Topten

Template:Topten

Template:Topten

Template:Topten

Template:Topten

Template:Topten

Template:Topten

Template:Topten

Comments

Like to comment on this review?

Just send us an email and we'll put the best up on the site.