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I am now reading The Woods by Harlan Coben

Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell A reclusive writer is dead. And her final manuscript has disappeared ...Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls. Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West - but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer in ...Thus begins for Dr Kay Scarpetta the investigation of a crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre. Why would Beryl open the door to someone who brutally slashed and then nearly decapitated her? Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is Beryl's enigmatic relationship with a prize-winning author and the disappearance of her own manuscript. As Scarpetta retraces Beryl's footsteps, an investigation that begins in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads her deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own. My Thoughts Brilliant! I really enjoyed reading this book and did not want to put it down. A great second installment to the Scarpetta Series.

I am now reading Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell :eek2: I am hoping to complete the Scarpetta series as I have heard she has a new Scarpetta book out at the end of October. A few books to add to my TBR pile; A Book of Illumination: A Novel from the Ghost Files by Mary Ann Winkowski Lady Vernon and her Daughter: A Novel of Jane Austin's Lady Susan by Jane Rubino Sawbones by Stuart MacBride The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Scarpetta Series by Patricia Cornwell Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Sypnosis from Waterstones) Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101. "Nineteen Eight-Four" is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. My Thoughts I thought this was a brilliant read, although parts of the story were quite distubing! The most chilling thing about this book is the possibility that it could actually happen and that scares me!

I am still reading Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Tonight we are having smoked cod, cous cous and vegetables

I have finished reading Halfhead by Stuart MacBride which was a great read. I'm now away to start Eighteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

I am now going to read Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell which my OH has been wanting me to read. Hopefully at some point I will get around to finishing Pride and Prejudice.

Halfhead by Stuart MacBride (Synopsis from Waterstones) Terrifying serial killer thriller set in the gritty Glasgow of the near future, from the bestselling author of the Logan McRae series. Glasgow, not too far in the future. A new punishment has been devised for the perpetrators of serious crimes -- one that not only reduces the prison population but also benefits society at large. The process is known as halfheading: the offender's lower jaw is removed and they are lobotomized. They are then put to work as cleaners in municipal areas like hospitals, where they serve as a warning to all that crime doesn't pay. But for one halfhead, it seems the lobotomy hasn't quite succeeded. Six years after her surgery, Dr Fiona Westfield 'wakes up' surrounded by the butchered remains of a man she has just brutally killed. As her mind slowly begins to return, she sets out on a quest for vengeance. William Hunter, Assistant Section Director of the 'Network' -- a military wing of the police -- attends the crime scene left behind by the newly awakened halfhead. Sherman House is a run-down concrete housing development full of undesirables and Hunter and his team quickly find themselves in a firefight with the locals. With the help of old comrades and a new friend in the form of prickly but attractive Detective Sergeant Josephine Cameron, Will gets on the trail of the killer. But before long the investigation leads back to a terrible tragedy in his own past, as well as to a terrifying conspiracy to sow violence and misery among Glasgow's most vulnerable citizens. My Thoughts I was a bit wary about reading this book as it has been reviewed as a Sci-fi book which I have never been interested in reading but after the first couple of chapters I was hooked. I think it is just as gruesome as the Logan MacRae books and one part made me feel quite sick. The ending has been left open so I am hoping he is going to write another one. I met Stuart MacBride last Tuesday at my local Waterstones where he was talking and reading extracts from Halfhead. He said he is currently writing a new Logan MacRae book which he thinks will be called Dark Blood and should be available the first Thursday of May 2010 - can't wait!!

Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride (Synopsis from Waterstones) It's summer in the Granite City, but even the sunshine can't improve the mood at Grampian Police Headquarters. Aberdeen's growing Polish community is under attack from a serial offender who leaves mutilated victims to be discovered on building sites -- eyes gouged out and the sockets burned. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is assigned to the investigation, codenamed Operation Oedipus, but with the victims too scared to talk, it's going nowhere fast. When the next victim turns out to be not a newly arrived eastern european, but Simon McLeod, owner of the Turf n' Track bookies, Logan suddenly finds himself caught up in a world of drug wars, prostitution rings and gun-running courtesy of Aberdeen's oldest and most vicious crime lord. My Thoughts Yet again another fantastic read by Stuart MacBride. There was alot of action in this book and it was very gruesome at times. I was a bit dissapointed that you didn't find out what happened to DI Insch and PC Jackie after the last book Flesh House.

I would say that you really have to read the books in order. Have you read any of them?

There's blood everywhere. Halfhead by Stuart MacBride

I enjoy listening to a wide variety of music. My favourites are; The Killers (I'm a massive fan), The Script, Kings of Leon, Elbow, James Morrison, Deacon Blue, Coldplay, Muse, Calvin Harris, Artic Monkeys, Kelly Clarkson, The Carpenters, Beyonce, I used to be a mega fan of Westlife but I have grown out of that phase.

I finished reading Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride today and I'm now away to start his new book Half-head. I hope to finish this before his book signing on Tuesday night, which I am really looking forward to

I am now reading the next book in the Logan McRae series Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride.

Flesh House by Stuart MacBride (Synopsis from Waterstones) Aberdeen is panicking. It's been eighteen years since Grampian Police caught the Flesher -- the notorious serial killer who butchered people all over the UK -- and seven years since he was released from Peterhead prison, his conviction overturned on appeal. But when a container full of joints of human meat turns up at Aberdeen Harbour, it kicks off the largest man hunt in Aberdeen's history. Ken Wiseman is on the run and looking for revenge. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is lumbered with the unenviable task of babysitting Chief Constable Mark Faulds from Birmingham -- one of the original investigation team -- and trying to keep DI Insch from throwing his career away in his obsessive quest to see Wiseman behind bars before he kills again. When members of the team that put Wiseman away in 1990 start going missing, Logan knows that things aren't as straightforward as everyone thinks. More and more human meat is turning up in the food chain. Twenty years of secrets and lies are being dragged into the light.And the only thing that's certain is Aberdeen will never be the same again. My Thoughts I really enjoyed this book and was hooked from the first chapter. It is more gruesome and violent than the other books. Some parts were quite sickening to read. This book is definitely my favourite of the Logan McRae series.

I watched this version last week and I really enjoyed it. Tom Hardy was brilliant. I have never read Wuthering Heights and will be looking for it today while I'm in town. I'm really looking forward to reading it

Waiting was the worst bit: hunkered back against the wall, eyes squinting in the setting sun, waiting for the nod. Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride

I finished reading Flesh House by Stuart MacBride and I'm now away to start Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride

They are brilliant I'm hoping to read the Maximum Ride series soon. Has anyone read any of these?

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