This is part of the Shane Schofield's series. A list with 15 names is announced by the Council of a secret organization formed by the twelve richest men in the world. The names belong to 15 targets that must be killed in six days. Among these names, is that from … [Read more...]
Sophie Jordan – Firelight, Vanish and Hidden.
This series main character's name is Jacinda. She's a draki, a descendant of dragons who has a human body, but also can transform into a dragon. She has the ability to breathe fire and that's a rare ability among the drakis, so she's very special to her community, … [Read more...]
Matthew Reilly – Temple.
William Race is a teacher of the New York University and a linguist. Without prior notice, he's been asked, by the colonel Frank Nash, to translate a manuscript written in latin in the year 1535 by a spanish monk. In this manuscript are written the whereabouts of an … [Read more...]
Ausma Zehanat Khan – The Unquiet Dead.
Esa Khattak, is a detective and the chief of the Community Policing Section responsible for the community of Islam in Canada. He's commissioned to investigate the death of Christopher Drayton, who, apparently, fell of a cliff. It appears to be that this man changed his … [Read more...]
Simon Kurt Unsworth – The Devil’s Detective.
Thomas Fool is one of Hell's Information Men, his duty is to investigate some of the crimes that are committed in Hell, most of the crimes aren't investigated because they're part of Hell's torments. One day, a human corpse appears floating in Solomon's Water, it has … [Read more...]
J. G. Sandom – The God Machine.
Koster has, already, been the main character in another book written by this author, but he's not the main character of all the books of J. G. Sandom, so I decided that this category was the best for the author. Joseph Koster is going to search for the "Gospel of … [Read more...]
Linda Newbery – Set in Stone.
Samuel Godwin is an art student who finds a job as an art tutor of two young girls in a victorian house in Sussex named Four Winds. The girls live with their father, Ernest Farrow, and with their female tutor and friend, Charlotte Agnew. Juliana Farrow is the oldest one … [Read more...]
Agatha Christie – The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.
This is a compilation of some short stories among which are "The Witness for the Prosecution", a story where a woman is very clever and she achieves, in a perfect way, what she wanted to achieve; and "The Fourth Man", this is the story that I liked the most because it … [Read more...]