Tag: Quick Reads

Peter James – The Perfect Murder | Review

Title: The Perfect Murder

Author: Peter James

Type: Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 168

Rating 4/5

 

 

This is basically something between a short story and a novella that acts as a pretty good standalone to introduce you to Peter James and his work. Originally published as part of the Quick Reads scheme, it was presumably successful enough that it earned publication in its own right.

I was actually expecting it to be longer than it was, but a big chunk of it turned out to be taken up by an excerpt of Dead Simple, which I’ve already read. But the story itself was good, even if the perfect murder didn’t turn out to be quite as perfect as the perpetrators had initially envisioned.

All in all, it was pretty good and I’d be up for going to see the stage play adaptation of this which apparently exists. It’s just a pretty good crime novel with an ironic title following fallible characters.

 

 

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Danny Wallace – Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe | Review

Title: Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe

Author: Danny Wallace

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 122

Rating: 5*/5

 

Danny Wallace - Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe

Danny Wallace – Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe

 

This book was a lot of fun, but then that’s pretty much to be expected when you pick up a Danny Wallace book. Here, he travels to a small town called Wallace in Idaho, partly because it shares his surname and partly because it claims to be the centre of the universe. He spends 24 hours there and gets to know the locals, and this book is about his incredible adventure. Oh, did I mention that it’s pretty funny as well? No wonder it’s on the World Book Day Quick Reads list.

 

Danny Wallace

Danny Wallace

 

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