Many enjoyed this book. An easy read.

Personally, I found the characters cliche. The plot unsophisticated.

Perhaps the author intended it to be easily turned into a screenplay for a future movie.

On the other hand, it took me 70% of the book to guess the identity of the bad guys.

… a creepy and creative variation on Jurassic Park.

In the near future, advances in gene editing have led to breakthroughs in de-extinction, bringing prehistoric mammals back to life by rebuilding their genomes and muting genes for aggression.

The scientists behind the project have focused on reviving herbivorous megafauna, including mammoths and Irish elk, with the animals allowed to roam inside the spacious confines of Colorado’s Erebus Resort, a luxury attraction near the Rocky Mountains.

When honeymooners Mark and Olivia Gunnerson fall victim to a savage attack at Erebus—their tent is slashed open, pools of blood are left at the scene, and authorities find no signs of their remains—the incident brings Frankie Cash from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to the resort.

She initially believes the attack to be the work of eco-terrorists who object to Erebus’s mission, but as she investigates, more bodies pile up, and the evidence points toward a threat more terrifying than she could have imagined. …

Publisher’s Weekly review

23 1/2 Lies includes one of the Women’s Murder Club (novel series)

Quite good.

James Patterson is the only author. That’s unusual as Maxine Paetro is typically his co-author. And it’s a novella.

Set in San Francisco, the novels follow a group of women from different professions relating to investigating crime as they work together to solve murders. 

Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows is a mystery novel by James Lovegrove.

This book is well written.

But WEIRD for Sherlock Holmes fans.

Instead of typical Baker Street consulting detectivry, this is some kind of supernatural horror story.

This one begins in 1880. Watson has returned from Afghanistan an invalid, but the cause of his injury was not as previously stated a Jezail bullet during the Battle of Maiwand, but rather as a result of his first brush with the occult.

It is not to be his last.

He is dragged by accident into one of Holmes’ cases, and from there their friendship grows.

Holmes has been investigating a series of bizarre deaths in the East End district of Shadwell; poor, unfortunate men and women are dying at the height of the new moon, their bodies aged and shrunken in an improbable manner. …

Crime Fiction Writer review

It’s not for me. I won’t be continuing with the series.

Clare Mackintosh is a British author and former police officer..

She became a  full-time writer in 2011. And in 2014 published I Let You Go, a best seller.

It’s intense.

Well written.

There are plot twists that surprised me.

Jenna Gray has rented a spare cottage in a small Welsh town on the coast.

She’s timid and doesn’t interact with many people, just her landlord and a woman at a local shop. She’s running away from the death of a child.

In parallel, Detective Inspector Ray Stevens and a female rookie are working on the case of a young boy killed in a hit-and-run right in front of his mother.

Inevitably, the story reveals itself.

Swiping Hearts (2023) is a short story by one of my favourite writers.

Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called upon to tackle a crime unlike any they’ve ever faced.

An unknown subject is using his formidable skills to work his way into the lives—and hearts—of his victims, all with the goal of utterly destroying them psychologically and emotionally . . . for his pure pleasure.

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