The Mentor
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Blog post** A fake thriller
This book is not yet available in English, but you can find it in other languages, including Italian, Spanish, German, Greek, Dutch, Russian and many more, and of course in French.
I found this book beautiful until approx. 80%. It was characterised by an intricate story, a succession of twists, and continuous action.But I noticed: Alice was too much over the top; Gabriel obviously hid something and strangely she did not realise it, or when she did, she was ready to -
Blog post***** Great crime thriller despite some lack in originalitycompared to the previous ones in the series
Recently Cornwell is taking the insane habit of killing a recurring character in each book, or at least this is what happened in the last two I read. I hope she will calm down, otherwise there won’t be many of them in the future!But let’s talk about the book. It starts with a very slow pace in the first part, so that the first corpse arrives very late. I still liked the way the author bui -
Blog post***** The witness you don’t expect
In this short story, Stefania Mattana puts aside her cosy mysteries, but not the town where they are set, Tursenia, which this time hosts no less than Raffaello Sanzio during the creation of Pala Baglioni.
The one telling us about this story is an unlikely witness: the canvas.
While the painter works on it, the canvas sees and listens to Raffaello’s and Donna Atalanta’s conversations, revealing to the reader the dramatic events of the B -
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Blog post**** Enjoyable noir
With this book I started reading the noir trilogy by Richard Matheson, which deviates a lot from his subsequent production related to speculation fiction.“Someone Is Bleeding” is a short novel characterised by the vintage charm of noir (actually it was originally published in 1953).Some parts are perhaps a bit hasty, even if, all things considered, there was no need to dwell much in them.As often happens in his books, we have the usual male protagonist in trouble, who i -
Blog post**** Perfectly built, but too calculated and cold towards the ending
I liked this novel very much, until I came to the last part on New London, of which I am not really able to digest the conclusion. And this inevitably has a negative influence on my overall judgment.As always Hamilton is a master at managing complex plots in an elaborate backdrop and make many well developed characters interact in it. In this sense, “The Nano Flower” is the link between its first production set on Earth i -
Blog post***** A secret guarded by sycamores
This novel by Grisham, despite being set in the same place and having the same protagonist of “A Time to Kill,” is not a real sequel to it, and can be read without knowing the story of the first one, of which just a few mentions are made, only where necessary.The theme is the same, namely that of racism. This time Jack Brigance, a lawyer in Ford County, a county in the southern United States where racism was still a major problem thirty years ago (and I -
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Blog post**** Intense, violent, shocking
This is an extremely complex and ambitious novel, which certainly took a huge research by the author on the dynamics of the drug trade between Mexico and the United States. I don’t know the topic well, but the impression I got from reading it is that the author reports real facts, though of course the characters and specific details of their stories are fictional. But they are absolutely plausible. While reading I saw in my mind scenes from the film “Sicario -
Blog post***** Can you change the past?
Matheson’s novels are all special in some way. What fascinates me about this author is his ability to present completely different stories, often in different genres, which do not seem to feel the passing of time. When I open a book of his, whatever the period when he wrote it, I already know that I will remain stunned.“Somewhere in Time” (or “Bid Time Return”, depending on the edition) is many things: a novel about travelling in time, but also about love, an -
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Blog post***** A contagious . . . action thriller
The plot of this novel is well-designed and is focused on a very charismatic and credible male character, Jonathan Smith. Jon, as his friends call him, is a doctor, but also a soldier. He is an intelligent man and full of resources, but not the classic perfect action man. He has faults, makes mistakes, but in the end he is also a bit lucky (as it always happens in novels).Even if this book wasn’t written only by Ludlum, who would be dead the year a -
Blog post**** Ghosts do not exist, do they?
I never know what to expect with Matheson. It moves freely between fantasy, paranormal and speculation fiction, always proposing stories outside the box. This, compared to other books I’ve read, is different because of the lack of a real main character around which the whole story revolves. It is in fact a choral novel that fully falls within the canons of horror, where one by one the characters that seem to have a primary role die, leaving only one or tw -
Blog post***** The corrupt cop
Another nice complex story for the second book in the Bosch series.Although you find the same messed-up character of the first one, it is not a separated episode, because only after the reading of the first book you can completely understand this one.Bosch is back from the vacation taken after the first case and now the Christmas season is approaching, which causes him further depression. The whole story takes place in a few exciting days. There is also a brief mentio -
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Blog postSince it is a film based on a video game my expectations were not very high. I decided to watch it, because action movies with high rate of murder victims are fun and this, in particular, shows the confrontation between two interesting actors: Rupert Friend, whom I already appreciated in “Homeland”, and Zachary Quinto, who since July 2016 has established himself on a permanent basis as wallpaper of my computer in the role of Spock.
Friend is already accustomed to the role of a killer. In “ -
Blog postLike many of you, I got to know for the first time Jean Dujardin thanks to his interpretation of George Valentin in “The Artist”, which earned him the Academy Award for Best Lead Actor in 2012. Then I saw him again years later in a dramatic role in “French Connection”, another film that I enjoyed very much.In “Up For Love”, thanks to special effects, Dujardin is actually playing the role of a person with dwarfism in a hilarious comedy that also leads you to think.
His skills as an actor ar -
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Blog postIf I had to rely on the films focused on this character, of which I recently have also watched the first three again, I would come to the conclusion that Jason Bourne doesn’t sleep (and if he tries, he is haunted by nightmares), doesn’t eat, tours half the world mostly by trainand this doesn’t seem to tire him the least, isn’t afraid of anything, doesn’t care about anyone (except Marie, that is precisely why she was eliminated in the second film), the rare occasions when he is wounded he be
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Blog post**** Who killed Edward Kitchener?
The second book in the Greg Mandel Trilogy is in some ways a proper mystery. All the elements are there: one dead, a secluded place, a small number of possible culprits, many of which would have a good reason to kill him, and apparently no one of them did it. To figure out who the murderer is, you must choose the least likely, but can in no way imagine what lies beneath. The sci-fi element is what makes the magic, leaving you speechless.As always in H -
Blog postWe know that fiction alters many of the aspects relating to the analysis of physical evidence during an investigation. First of all it enhances the importance of this analysis, when in reality most of the times the physical evidence points to very few conclusive results for the identification of the culprit.
Second, timings do not match the real ones. Downtime is not fun, so in fiction everything happens very quickly, just a few minutes or seconds to find a match, so the culprit is identif -
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Blog postThe broadcast on Fox Italy (my country) of this Canadian series was preceded by a lot of advertisement that pointed to the fact that it was a world premiere. Actually “The Listener” was broadcast in Italy and other countries a few days after its Canadian premiere (3 March 2009), but a few months before its premiere in the United States.
I don’t know why, because I’m not generally crazy about the series that have to do with paranormal stuff, but I still found myself watching it from the fir -
Blog post*** Hard science fiction from the past
I know I find myself in front of a science fiction classic written in the 50s of the past century, but I’m obviously forced to judge it according to my tastes as a reader from these times.This is an early example of hard science fiction, that is, a science fiction that seeks to be based on real science, but being a novel from 1951, most of its science is outdated. Therefore you must take it as it is.The story sounds cold and linear, even though there -
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Blog postI still remember that night when, sitting on my bed, I was reading the scene of “The Silence of the Lambs” where Clarice enters Buffalo Bill’s house.I had palpitations.And I’m not kidding.
I have read many books in my life, some really beautiful and exciting, but only “The Silence of the Lambs” made me feel that way. As I read it, I was Clarice and, between fear and horror, I was exploring the house in search of the senator’s daughter. I was also that girl (I cannot remember her name) who, -
Blog postAs you may know I have a regular mailing list, with which I keep my readers posted about new book releases, promotions, and giveaway.The problem with this mailing list is that more than 90% of the subscribers ended up in it after getting a free e-book and not because they really wanted to keep in touch with me. That’s why I send my newsletter just when I have some news related to new publications and promotions. Once I do that, I also add a link to the latest articles posted on this blog, but I
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Blog postMina was there when they killed her family.Now the time has come for her to kill them all.
If you live in the USA or Canada, you have a new chance to meet Detective Eric Shaw and his pupil for a very low price. “The Mentor” (Kindle edition) is on sale on Amazon for $2, instead of $5.99, until the end of February.
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This crime thriller set in London is the first one in the Detective Eric Shaw Trilogy, which narrates the story of a -
Blog post***** The first Bosch is never forgotten
I had never read anything by Connelly in the past and I admit that I was attracted to this series because it was brought to my attention by the existence of a TV series produced by Amazon Studios. Apart from that I knew nothing of the main character, Harry Bosch, nor had I read the book description of this first novel. I just decided to take it and read it, and then defer the judgments to a later time.Well, it was love at first sight.I quickly manag -
Blog postThere are so many good movies that don’t arrive to our local theatres and which you hardly hear about. “Another Earth” (2011) is one of them. But if on 24 July 2011 I had not read a very short post by Gary Lightbody (lead singer of Snow Patrol), who claimed he wanted to see it and enclosed a link to the trailer, I would hardly have thought of looking for it among the many possible choices on Sky TV or other sources.
Instead it took a very short post to intrigue me, but then the film staye -
Blog postWhen a week ago I wrote the last sentence in the first draft of “Beyond the Limit”, after an uninterrupted writing session lasted eight hours, I could not believe it. I’d started writing the book on 1 November and 75 days later, approx. 116 thousand words later, it was over. With it I found myself completing my twelfth book and closing a trilogy that had begun as a standalone book, “The Mentor” written almost by chance in November 2012 to try my hand with the NaNoWriMo and then published in 2014
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Blog post***** Never let yourself be hypnotised!
This short paranormal thriller is another little gem from the extensive literary production of Matheson. Despite being a short enough work, it can be considered a complete book, thanks to the author’s ability to use a fast pace, which does not get lost on too much talking, but can summarise a complex plot in a little space.As always in his books you have no idea what might happen next, since it is difficult to label them and then understand the type
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