Just finished The Murder Room by PD James, Therapy by Jonathan Kellerman and Aphrodite by Russell Andrews. Aphrodite was ace, also read Gideon and Icarus by the same author.
I LOVE Patricia Cornwell, I wanted to be a forensic pathologist so I just devour these. I want Kay Scarpettas job!
Also read The Handmaids Tale for A level Eng Lit - also thought it was fab.
Read The Da Vinci code a few months back, took a couple of chapters to get into it but soon hooked - it was excellent.
Read The Children of Men by PD James last year, that was a goodie too, not her usual thing. Set in the future when the entire world populations children of the last 20 odd years have been infertile, pretty thought provoking!
A Child called IT - read all 3 in about 4 days. Don't think I've ever cried so much but absolutely compelling. That guy is such an inspiration, to go through all that and not turn out bitter and twisted.
If you like thriller, Mark Billingham is another good one - read one a few years back, the title escapes me now. You read the back but doesn't do the story justice, it doesn't even hint on how twisted (as in gross) the story gets. Will have to look up which one it was...
Oh, and then there's Val McDermid - hers are great books too, but you gotta wonder at how her mind works; good job she's a writer, she'd make one twisted criminal!
