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  1. Cover des Buches The Warlord (ISBN: 0553569104)
    Elizabeth Elliott

    The Warlord

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  2. Cover des Buches The Silent Dead (Paula Maguire 3): An Irish crime thriller of danger, death and justice (English Edition) (ISBN: 9781472204417)
    Claire McGowan

    The Silent Dead (Paula Maguire 3): An Irish crime thriller of danger, death and justice (English Edition)

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    2011, Ballyterrin. When Mickey Doyle, member of the infamous Mayday Five, shows up dead, it comes as no surprise. Declared "not guilty" in a fault-ridden trial, not even  the IRA itself were much liking what his Republican splinter group had done: the bomb targeted to go off within a Protestant march had instead gone off early in a busy street, causing 16 deaths and hundreds of injuries, leaving behind a bloodshed and endless grief. But along with Doyle, the other members of the (fictive, but by no means unrealistic) group have disappeared. So the Northern Ireland based MPRU (Missing Persons Response Unit) is called upon, with forensic psychologist Paula Maguire to consult. As there had been threats uttered from within the victims in court, Paula Maguire and her colleagues in Helen Corry's team face the unrewarding task to investigate not only within ex IRA-ranks, but also within the victims's self support group. A tough task, given that Paula's own mother disappeared and her high-school sweatheart's father got shot within "the Troubles" - same, with nobody to legally hold responsible. Within the region, even with the peace lasting, there is always a fragile link to the past. "For a start, it wasn't very often you had more sympathy for whoever the killer was than the victim." Chapter Four.

    This third Paula Maguire novel made me a bit uneasy about some few lines - author Claire McGowan weaved in segments from Kira's point of view. This left me wondering who she is, what happened to her, whom she lost. I am no big fan of thrillers/mysteries using the idea of interspersed chapters from the victims'/criminal's point of view (too over-dramatized, too much pressing for tears), but this one was soon infective. It kept me pondering about loss and redemption, the cost of peace versus justice, the thin line of getting going and going too far. On the other hand, I thoroughly loved the parts of "book within the book", the book "written" about the bombing.

    This sequel is different from numbers one and two in the series in sofar as one feels pretty certain about "who did it" here - and then not. Who is the criminal really comes as the big question in the end, and again with a big twist. Claire McGowan continues to surprise by how expertly she weaves in a crime within a crime, all the same while holding up with her great character descriptions and her laconic dry humor (like "He was tricked out in a new grey suit, clasping his hands in front of his groin in that position men adopted during moments of gravity or penalty kick-offs." Pos 127). I still like her main figure Paula very much, who continues to search for the missing despite being seven months pregnant: this is what she is good at, she just cannot help doing it. My favorite in here is Kira, though. In Northern Ireland, there is a thin line between peace at all cost and the real thing, from the current mayor who used to be IRA to justice turning a blind eye to not disturb the compromise made. The series really puts the reader within the situation and makes you understand better what goes on, now and in the past; sadly, not that this is giving you any idea how this could have been handled any better.

    As far as the main case is concerned, the book could be read standalone, but then there would be some minor spoiler regarding the character developments (less so here than with reading number two prior to number one, I would say). Same goes for the one big case that links all of the six books in the mini-series, the fate of Paula's mother, disappeared in 1993, when Paula was only thirteen.

    5 stars, also for the great structure of this, with the book-within-the-book, Kira's part and yet again another completely different missing person's case. Claire McGowan does not repeat herself, only in her seemingly trademark twist-plotting and crime-within setup - but that is highly appreciated.

    Paula Maguire #1 https://www.lovelybooks.de/autor/Claire-McGowan/The-Lost-1465425750-w/rezension/1984151127/

    Paula Maguire #2 https://www.lovelybooks.de/autor/Claire-McGowan/The-Dead-Ground-1465425751-w/rezension/1985867838/

    this is Paula Maguire #3

  3. Cover des Buches The Darkest Hour (ISBN: 9780425227947)
    Maya Banks

    The Darkest Hour

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    Aktuelle Rezension von: Mimabano
    1. Teil der KGI-Reihe Diese Reihe hat mir auf deutsch so gut gefallen,das ich sie mir jetzt auch auf englisch besorgt habe.die spannung ist von anfang an da und man fliegt nur so durch die seiten. Die protagonisten sind viel in der anzahl aber auch verschieden im charakter . ethan um den es in diesem ersten teil geht kann es nicht glauben das seine totgeglaubte frau zurück ist. fehler die er in der vergangenheit gemacht hat könnten ihm jetzt zum verhängnis werden.rachel seine frau versucht ihrerseits etwas normalität in ihr leben zu bringen.neben rachels und ethans geschichte kommen auch noch seine brüder vor die für sehr viel unterhaltung sorgen.klappentext : it´s been one year since ex-navy seal ethan kelly last saw his wife, rachel ,alive. overhelmed by grief and guilt over his failures as a husband ,ethan shuts himself off from everything and everyone. his brothers have tried to bring ethan into the kgi fold,tried to break through the barriers he´s built around himself ,but ethan refuses to respond ...until he receives an anonymous note claiming rachel is alive.
  4. Cover des Buches Kiss the Girls: (Alex Cross 2) (ISBN: 9781784757489)
    James Patterson

    Kiss the Girls: (Alex Cross 2)

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    “FOR THREE WEEKS, the young killer actually lived inside the walls of an extraordinary fifteen-room beach house.” p. 15 The killer watches Michael and Hannah Pierce and their daughters Coty and Karrie, 13. He introduces himself to Coty as ‘Casanova’. He introduces himself on the evening of murder in Boca Raton.

     Casanova has a 21-old college student in his trunk – once he has her tied up against a tree, he “…took off his mask and let her see his face for the first time. …Then he bent down and kissed her on the lips.
     Kiss the girls.
     Finally, he walked away.” p 32

     Washington D.C. cop Alex Cross, with a doctorate for abnormal psychology at John Hopkins, gets drawn into a grisly series of crimes. He will not be just professionally involved – this will be personal. His niece has disappeared. The story is hard to endure not only for the victims and for Alex, be aware that the kind of crime described is brutal, sometimes explicit and might shock sensitive readers like when one of the monsters in questions gets to try a sexual practice involving a snake on one of the abducted women. Too much for you – no book for you; this is NOT cozy crime.

     Again, I feel quite drawn by the laconical style used each time you hear Alex, like when he has a very straightforward question for Robert Burns, Deputy Director of the FBI:
    “I like directness more than anything in a senior officer,” Burns continued.
     I was still waiting for an answer to my direct question.” p 70 Patterson certainly has you side with Dr Cross, the rather short chapters will shift from the usual third-person to first-person narrator whenever the focus is on the doc. Very much fine with me, he is made up to be a very likeable character, including nice interludes of music. And for this book I actually had thought there could possibly not be much more to come after I was a bit more than halfway-through – and was completely wrong. Despite of being a series, you might start with just ANY of the books (I did with vol. 20, than 23, and am now “on track”); something I highly appreciate; except for the short hint back to the previous book.

     So, a solid 4 out of 5 stars.

     Trivia:
     German title “…denn zum Küssen sind sie da”.

    on the Cross family:
     In volume 2, Alex’ children Damon and Janelle are 7 and 5 – he is a single Dad after their Mom, his wife Maria, had been killed in a drive-by shooting. That means it is the year after vol 1 https://www.lovelybooks.de/autor/James-Patterson/Along-Came-a-Spider-Alex-Cross-1-1434895445-w/rezension/1434963027/ which saw him at the age of 38. They still live with his 80-something-year-old grandmother ‘Nana Mama’ who grew him up.
     There will also be Alex’ late brother Aaron’s widow (Aaron died of alcoholism-induced cirrhosis at 33), Cilla, 41, his one living brother, Charles, with his wife, and three of Alex’ aunts, one of whom is called Tia. Cilla’s and Aaron’s daughter is Alex’ niece Naomi “Scootchie”, 22.

     issues I have with the text:
     I do not quite get the sense of the incident with Marcus Daniels at the very start of the story. What did Patterson need that for?
     Well, Patterson’s hero Cross is black, Patterson himself is not –he has female investigators, too, but sometimes he sort of stresses it in way that is a bit…overdoing, like when after a phone call, Cross’ grandma Nana goes: “Black man?” Nana asked. She is a racist, and proud of it. She says she’s too old to be socially or politically incorrect. She doesn’t so much dislike white people as distrust them.” p 43 I hope, the “Women’s Murder Club” will not ponder PMS in length instead. The author can be way more trustworthy, like when Alex and best friend-colleage Sampson will be stopped by a police patrol for one mere reason: The killer they are supposed to look out for is white – but Alex and Sampson are black. Black = suspect. 

    # 23 https://www.lovelybooks.de/autor/James-Patterson/Cross-Justice-1178730254-w/rezension/1211681251/

  5. Cover des Buches With Every Breath: A Slow Burn Novel (Slow Burn Novels) (ISBN: 9780062410177)
    Maya Banks

    With Every Breath: A Slow Burn Novel (Slow Burn Novels)

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    Aktuelle Rezension von: Mimabano
    ACHTUNG! 4.Teil der Slow Burn Reihe Achtung das Buch ist auf deutsch noch nicht erschienen! Dieser Teil ist mit Abstand der beste der ganzen Reihe.Endlich mal eine Protagonistin die zwar auch mit ihren Dämonen zu kämpfen hat aber trotzdem nicht wie ein Häufchen Elend daher kommt.Wade hat mir ja schon im letzten Band gut gefallen weil sein Charakter definitiv Ecken und Kanten hat.Die erste Hälfte des Buches ist sagen wir mal eher mit Gefühl , während der zweite Teil,bzw.das Letzte Drittel des Buches in Richtung Romantic-Thriller geht.Nebenprotagonisten von anderen Teilen kommen dezent vor.Gesamthaft kann ich das Buch mit gutem Gewissen weiterempfehlen und ich finde man muss die Vorgänger nicht unbedingt gelesen haben.Klappentext: As a vulnerable teenager,eliza cummings was the target of a predator who cultivated her need for love and approval.until she found the courage to fight back and help put him away. Years later, she works with deveraux security services and devotes every hour to taking down the very thingthat nearly destroyed her.but now the killer has been set free,and eliza knows its only a matter of time before he comes for her,and the people she loves...
  6. Cover des Buches Knots and Crosses (ISBN: 0312536925)
    Ian Rankin

    Knots and Crosses

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    Aktuelle Rezension von: Karin_Kehrer

    Detective Sergeant John Rebus hat mehr als genug Probleme: Er trinkt und raucht zu viel, seine Frau hat ihn zusammen mit seiner Tochter Samantha verlassen. Außerdem leidet er noch immer unter den Folgen eines Traumas, das er durch das beinharte Training bei der Spezialeinheit der Army, der er vorher angehörte, erlitten hat. 
    Zu allem Überfluss hält gerade ein Verbrecher, der junge Mädchen entführt und tötet, die Stadt in Atem. Rebus erhält von ihm Briefe mit verknoteten Seilstücken und kreuzförmig zusammengefügten Zündhölzern. 
    Dann verschwindet plötzlich auch Rebus‘ Tochter und er muss erkennen, dass die Spuren zur Lösung des Falls in seiner eigenen Vergangenheit zu suchen sind. 

    Ian Rankins Krimis um Edinburgh und seine Figur John Rebus sind mittlerweile Kult. 
    Der erste Band der Reihe zeigt einen gebrochenen, traumatisierten Mann, der mit seinem Schicksal hadert und zu allem Überfluss auch noch einen Serienmörder jagen soll. 
    Nun ist die Figur des kaputten Ermittlers ja längst nichts Neues mehr und hier liegt meiner Meinung nach auch das Problem. Denn bis zur Hälfte des Buches geht es hauptsächlich um die Befindlichkeiten des Helden, um sein problematisches Verhältnis zu seinem Bruder, seiner Ex-Frau, seinen neuen Frauenbekanntschaften, zu Alkohol und Nikotin und seine traumatische Vergangenheit. Ein Riesen-Paket also, das der Arme mit sich herumschleppt. 
    Kein Wunder, dass da die Mordfälle nur so nebenbei eine Rolle spielen. Die anonymen Nachrichten, die Rebus bekommt (sie werden ihm direkt ins Haus geliefert, der Mörder weiß also sogar wo er wohnt) werden mehr oder weniger unbeachtet gelassen. Es ist wohl offensichtlich, dass der Täter irgendeine Verbindung zu Rebus hat, doch wird dies lange Zeit überhaupt nicht in Betracht gezogen. 
    Dass die Zusammenhänge zwischen den Opfern nicht schneller erkannt werden, fand ich auch ein wenig unglaubwürdig. 
    Wie gesagt, das Hauptaugenmerk liegt eben auf der Figur des John Rebus und nicht auf den Mordfällen.
    Die Sprache im englischen Original ist sehr bildhaft und war für mich leicht zu verstehen. Die Kapitel sind kurz und laden trotz des eher mäßigen Tempos zum Weiterlesen ein. 
    Faszinierend finde ich meine Lieblingsstadt Edinburgh als Schauplatz. Diese Stadt ist reich an düsteren Geschichten und neben den touristischen Pfaden werden auch verborgene Winkel erwähnt, in die nie ein Uneingeweihter seinen Fuß setzen würde. 

    Fazit: Noch etwas unausgegorener Auftakt der Serie um John Rebus, hat aber durchaus interessante Aspekte.

  7. Cover des Buches Lost Love Found (ISBN: 0345374193)
    Bertrice Small

    Lost Love Found

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