© 1999-2008 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-damieng Recent reviews written by member damieng en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_437643480708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - In just three books Michael Robotham has established himself as a master storyteller whose new releases are much anticipated both home and abroad. He consistently crafts impressive thrillers around intriguing scenarios. Shatter continues... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~437643480708 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:26:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_437643480708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_431944928900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - Harlan Coben has a habit of creating tight thrillers out of seemingly ordinary family situations, revealing stunning secrets that go on to result in disturbingly shocking outcomes. His stand alone thrillers have all had the ability to draw the reader in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431944928900 Fri, 30 May 2008 00:37:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431944928900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_428873125508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - Felicity Young&#146s 3rd novel is also the 2nd book in her police procedural series set in Perth, Australia and featuring Detective Sergeant Stevie Hooper. The book follows on from where the first book, An Easeful Death, finishes off. The book... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~428873125508 Mon, 5 May 2008 09:10:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_428873125508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_427729260164?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - Boston defense attorney David Cavanaugh was introduced in the award-winning novel Undertow and then established as a gun lawyer to watch in Gospel. Now, author Sydney Bauer&#146s third novel, Alibi, brings him back for another highly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~427729260164 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:41:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_427729260164?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_424799473284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - With the vast coverage of the internet these days. you hear whispers about new books long before you ever get to lay eyes on them. Sometimes these whispers grow louder and louder until it becomes a constant rumble. The rumble is heard in enough different... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~424799473284 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:10:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_424799473284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_424652541572?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - Do you remember in one of the Austin Powers movies when Dr Evil stole Austin&#146s mojo and Austin&#146s emotional and physical prowess deserted him? Well, the 3rd Dexter, Dexter In the Dark by Jeff Lindsay runs along a similar vein with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~424652541572 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:28:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_424652541572?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423429377668?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - Between the terrible spectacle of the devastation brought upon New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and the magical description of the Atchafalya Basin, a finely wrought mystery gradually emerges and defies all attempts to unpick it. When you read one of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423429377668 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:03:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423429377668?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423462538884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - Adrian d&#146Hage&#146s second novel, The Beijing Conspiracy is a global thriller of monumental proportions much like his debut novel The Omega Scroll. This time he uses the spectre of terrorism to set the pulse quickening, but amps the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423462538884 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:28:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423462538884?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423462276740?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - The Low Road is a dark chronicle of a brief life on the run as two men try to escape the consequences of their own weaknesses with a misguided belief that salvation is their destiny. Chris Womersley has written a confronting debut novel... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423462276740 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:25:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423462276740?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_415472455300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - In a particularly strong debut novel Alex Palmer introduces Detective Inspector Paul Harrigan and Detective Constable Grace Riordan of the New South Wales Police Force to us. Blood Redemption is a memorable thriller that takes us directly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~415472455300 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:47:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_415472455300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_414997057156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - Redback is a grand action thriller set on a global scale reaching from Texas, through Luxembourg and on to Peshawar, Pakistan. Author Lindy Cameron has hatched an ingenious terrorist plot, spread by terrorist leaders on many fronts. To... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~414997057156 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:22:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_414997057156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_415708581508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - The Les Norton series has grown to almost 20 books now published over a period of more than 20 years, etching the knockabout Queensland lad well and truly into modern folklore. The series is a humorous one intended merely as light entertainment with an... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~415708581508 Mon, 4 Feb 2008 06:38:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_415708581508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_415441260164?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - Peter Corris has taken his private detective through all manner of hairy situations over the year with varying degrees of success and heartache. In The Big Score, Cliff Hardy is put through his paces, short story style, with his usual... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~415441260164 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:46:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_415441260164?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_414389603972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - Michael Koryta shot to prominence when his first book, Tonight I Said Goodbye earned him the St Martins Press PWA Prize for Best First Novel at only 20 years of age. That book was outstanding and he has continued the high standard with A Welcome... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~414389603972 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:39:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_414389603972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_414962257540?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - Sandra Mahoney is a computer security consultant who, along with her partner Ivan, lives and works in Canberra, a city big on gas-bagging politicians and the occasional scandal. It&#146s a little bit of both that sets alight Eden the 3rd mystery... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~414962257540 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:43:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_414962257540?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_413575122564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - Elmore Leonard has once again displayed his versatility and ability to capture the distinctive essence of his characters in the war-time drama Up In Honey&#146s Room. The city of Detroit plays host to a Heinrich Himmler lookalike, a couple... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~413575122564 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:42:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_413575122564?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_413070036612?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - Every now and then I come across a thriller with a plot that grabs me within the first few pages and demands that I keep reading. No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay is such a book. It starts with a family&#146s disappearance and follows... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~413070036612 Sat, 5 Jan 2008 07:50:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_413070036612?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_412879130244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - I’m a little late to this party, stepping into a series that is already 4 books strong, but after reading Hades I feel as though I have discovered a new author to follow. Russell Andrews writes with an easy style and a direct delivery that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~412879130244 Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:55:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_412879130244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_409370398340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - The aroma of fresh baking bread would have to be one of the most pleasing for our olfactory system, stimulating all sorts of feelings of comfort and well-being. So it&#146s no wonder that a series set in a bakery &#150 and a gourmet bakery at that &#150... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~409370398340 Tue, 1 Jan 2008 18:05:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_409370398340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_409370332804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - We meet Cliff Hardy in the exact spot from where all private detectives worth their salt should be introduced, behind his shabby desk in his shabby office. The Dying Trade introduces us to a tough private enquiry agent, an ex-boxer with a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~409370332804 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:15:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_409370332804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_412180188804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - The DI Tom Thorne police procedural series has proven to be consistently strong throughout it&#146s (now) 7-strong books. Death Message roughly picks up from where the previous book, Buried, left off and builds nicely on some of the personal... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~412180188804 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:25:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_412180188804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_409370594948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - Similar to Michael Robotham&#146s practise of taking minor characters from his previous books and featuring them as protagonists in the next, Kathryn Fox has promoted Detective Sergeant Kate Farrer from bit player in the Anya Crichton books... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~409370594948 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:28:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_409370594948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_410251202180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - Serial killers are usually the frightening stalkers of psychological thrillers unseen until it&#146s too late, their minds incomprehensible to most as everyone tries to come to grips with the results of their unspeakable crimes. The reader never gets... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~410251202180 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:15:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_410251202180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_409346018948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - Set in the chill state of Minnesota in Duluth on Lake Superior, Stalked resumes the series featuring homicide Lieutenant Jonathan Stride, in the 3rd of Brian Freeman’s classy and compelling novels. This is a police procedural / thriller... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~409346018948 Tue, 4 Dec 2007 23:44:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_409346018948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_408253795972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author damieng - From the very first sentence the reader is playing catch up in The Killing Hour by New Zealand author Paul Cleave. The story takes place in the city of Christchurch and plonks you in the bedroom of a man who will very shortly be wanted for... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~408253795972 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:49:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_408253795972?linkin_id=8003929