Review: Knife's Tell

Knife's Tell by Daniel Dark
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Most people know about the autumn of Terror in Victorian London 1888 where a killer who became know to the world as Jack the ripper killed five prostitutes in a gruesome manner.

This book is interestingly a fictional account of the months leading up to these murder. Daniel Darks character is a pillar of society, a doctor, forensics expert and medical examiner to police but the reality is, he is a sick , twisted , controlling , drug addicted killer. I don't want to go into the storyline any more than I have already because this will spoil the discovering  the doctor's dastardly deeds for for yourself.

Dark has done a wonderful job of getting inside the mind of a killer and with reproducing Victorian London for its readers. A highly recommended read and in my opinion deserves it places amongst by Jack the ripper book collection.

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Review: Strange Tales of the Sea

Strange Tales of the Sea by Jack Strange
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Strange Tales of the Sea (Jack's Strange Tales Book 4) by Jack Strange is an informative book filled with seventeen chapters of enticing titles such as Ships with Ghosts, Ships that Disappeared, Creatures of the Deep, Eating the Ship’s Boy and Religion at Sea.

This is first book in the Strange Tales series I have read and the first book I have read by this author and I was not disappointed. The book made for interesting reading , which you can tell from the first page to the last was thoroughly researched by the author.

Some of my favourite chapters included , ghost ships, mermaids and sailors' superstitions my least favourite chapter was definitely Eating the Ship’s Boy, I won't go into details of why I will leave that to to the reader to find out for themselves.

I'm looking forward to reading more books by this author and would highly recommend this to these of you enjoy stories related to the history of the sea and sailing or mythology.

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Review: Black Sparrow

Black Sparrow by A.J. Griffiths-Jones
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Black Sparrow Kindle Edition

by A.J. Griffiths-Jones  

This is the story of how three people with different backgrounds finds themselves intertwined into each other's life in the city of Pairs.

You have the young Muslim women, running away from home to be with her lover, the businessman travelling abroad one last time, for one last job before retirement but what is his job and finally the hotel owner a secretive women with a mysterious past and who seems to know alot about the businessman and his job.

This author has done a great job of leaving the reader wondering what is going to happen right to the very last minute.

The story is well written and has a great twist at the end.

The only problem I found and what made reading difficult at times for me was the characters names but this was not the authors fault but my own as I have dyslexia making the pronunciations of the names very difficult for me.

I would definitely recommend this to mystery and thriller readers readers.

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Review: The College Farm Mystery: The True Story of the Finchley Murder of 1898

The College Farm Mystery: The True Story of the Finchley Murder of 1898 by Danny Adams
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I was given a free copy of this book by NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

First I would like say I don't if this was the final edition of the book or if it was still in editorial process the book if this was the final version then it was very higglety pigglety and needs a lot of work. The book has a be habit of jumping from one story to another which a bit confusing.

If you put this to one side The College Farm Mystery is very well researched and informative was reader of historical true crime I find it an interesting insight into a crime I had not read about before.

If the the book is reorganised and re-edited in the coming months I would happily recommend it to true crime readers.

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Review: The Fifth Commandment

The Fifth Commandment by Eve Gaal
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The main character, is a young woman called Christina who after wishing she had different parents has a supernatural experience involving Saint Peter who gives her the opportunity to live alternate lives. After her experiences she finds herself back in her home town where she feels compelled to confess her sin of breaking the 5th commandment and her experience of of living alternative lives to the local priest. Will he her believe ? well I'm afraid I don't give away spoilers to find out what happens you will have to read this fabulous book.

But I will tell this was my first time reading anything by author Eve Gaal and I have to say I found this particular novel thought-provoking. You find yourself thinking what would life be like , how different would l have been if I'd had been born to a different family.

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