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Identical and needlessly brutal assaults on three women. One woman survives to give a detailed description of her attacker. The police arrest a suspect, Damon Morton, confident he is their man. But three of his employees admit to the crimes. His wife and girlfriend provide him with an alibi. They all declare Damon Morton innocent. The police know he did it. If people lie under oath in a court of law, who can the jury believe? Loved this book. Storytelling at its best.

Interesting reviews. maybe one for the future?

Hello and welcome.

I'm reading Drums of Autumn at the moment. I have loved all the series so far but I must admit to struggling a bit on this one. I intend to finish it though as I had this problem on my first attempt with Outlander. Put it down for a while and then started at the beginning again. Loved it.

Couldn't vote as I have two favourites, Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code and I can't choose between the two of them.

Disatisfied with her life Catherine Sanderson sets up the blog Petite Anglaise in which she details her day-to day existence in Paris, her life with Mr Frog and her daughter tadpole. I assume that most of you will have heard of Petite Anglaise so it needs little explanation from me. I don't know quite what I expected from this book but safe to say I found it very boring. The only reason I kept reading was that I was expecting something to happen. Not recommended by me.

I have only read a few of the Lincoln Rhyme books but I have certainly enjoyed the ones that I have read.

I have Wild Sargasso Sea but have always put off reading it. I'm a bit bothered that it will spoil Jane Eyre for future reading.

It does stray a little from the book in some of the finer details but the main storyline is the same. I enjoyed it when it first came out on tv and then bought my own copy on dvd when that came out.

Jane Eyre is one of my all time favourite books. I have probably re-read it at lease six times and I never get tired of the storyline. I tried Wuthering Heights after I finished Jane Eyre quite recently and gave up quite quickly. I'm sure it is a very good book but it was so much harder to get into and I didn't want to spoil what I had just read. It is something I will have to go back to before too long and start again.

I have watched a bit of this series. Quite amazing.

I must have missed your post until now. Hello and welcome.

It's that long since I read this book that although I can remember the jist of the story I certainly cannot remember it in any detail....time for a re-read maybe.

I mainly buy via the internet. They get delivered to my door and I get free delivery as well. Books I want are rarely on offer in a bookshop. If I go into down I will go and browse in Waterstones and sometime come out with something.

Did anybody see the tv programme about his alzheimers. Very interesting.

My kids have read it and loved it. They were very impressed by the fact that it came in a tin.

Generally speaking cost is a factor. Before the availability of low cost books I would wait for the paperback or borrow from the library and if I still wanted a copy get it when the paperback came out. With the likes of amazon and asda selling the top 20 or so books at half price it makes the decision less difficult and if it is something I want I just get it. If I don't want to keep it I resell or bookcross or swap depending on what I think at the time.

I've watched both episodes now. I wouldn't say I enjoyed it but it was an ok watch. Will watch the last episode as I am intrigued to see how they will end it.

I'm Iagegu.

Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, where she endures loneliness and cruelty, and at a charity school with a harsh regime. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane

Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, where she endures loneliness and cruelty, and at a charity school with a harsh regime. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane

That my next read after I've finished Jane Eyre.

Amy Tan's fourth novel The Bonesetter's Daughter, like her highly successful The Joy Luck Club, explores the conflicts between a Chinese-American woman and her Chinese mother. Set in San Francisco, Ruth and her mother LuLing exercise a frosty commitment to each other. When her mother begins to show signs of Alzheimer's, and her talk of bad luck and curses becomes more jumbled, Ruth realises that her encroaching dependency will change her life. She questions how she will she care for a parent who she mostly resented throughout her childhood. The illness finally prompts Ruth to get her mother's autobiography translated and the central section of the book becomes LuLing's story of her mother, the bonesetter's daughter. Tan excels at locating the small, quotidian details of Californian domesticity and works the fissures and rifts between the generations very well. She can also blend hip, pop psychology with inherited Chinese lore to amusing effect. But the narrative starts to hum with energy and drive as the story is told from LuLing's perspective. The story shifts to a small Chinese village known as Immortal Heart, in the thirties, where LuLing's mother learnt her father's skill with a splint and special dragon bones dug out of a cave called Monkey's Jaw. The quality of the writing takes on the charm and compulsion of a fable as Ruth's grandmother's tragic life unfolds. In turn, Ruth uses what she learns of the maternal line of resilience to retrieve her own writing voice and vision: "These are the women who shaped her life, who are in her bones...They taught her to worry...They wanted her to get rid of the curses." As she recognises what her mother wants to remember, she begins to define what she wants for her own life. This was a re-read for me. I last read this book when it was first published. Whilst I enjoyed it I don't think it had the same power on re-reading. One thing that still stands out about the book is the amazing ability the author has for drawing the characters. The reader really feels as though they know them personally.

I used to be a member of several bookclubs but since I have been able to access amazon and asda always have cut price books I don't feel the need to be tied down to a bookclub.