132,831
edits
Changes
Book Reviews From The Bookbag (view source)
Revision as of 14:28, 4 November 2013
, 14:28, 4 November 2013no edit summary
'''Read [[Features|new features]].'''
{{newreview
|author=Ian Rankin
|title=Saints of the Shadow Bible
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Charlie Watts said that being in the Rolling Stones for fifty years consisted of a decade drumming and four decades waiting for something to happen. John Rebus - back in CID - is feeling much the same way as business is slow. He's had to come back in as a sergeant, but being back was what was important. He's not even ''that'' worried about working for Siobhan Clarke when their positions used to be reversed. On the other hand he's not pleased when Inspector Malcolm Fox from Professional Standards (''or whatever they're calling themselves this week'') investigates what happened some thirty years before at a station where Rebus was the new sergeant (first time round...). Fox himself isn't in the best of positions though - he's on his way back to CID where he knows that he's going to be loathed by everyone for the job he's been doing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409144747</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|summary=It's here at last – the novel of the script of the sequel to the film of the book – that was always better as a stage-play. I'll maintain as long as you like that the play is the best way to witness [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill]], purely for the added extra of the final frisson – that you'll be carrying the story with you when you leave. Making sequels to the film, what with its departures from the source, certainly don't marry up with that – instead of the ghost going away into the audience it's instead as if the new characters are compelled into her domain – but either way, the dread inevitability of all the best ghost stories are on these pages.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099588498</amazonuk>
}}