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The Devil’s Teardrop – Jeffrey Deaver
After reading a couple of the new authors around the block, I thought of turning to the old legends who (as far as I remember) wrote a Thriller/Mystery in the real sense of the words. Jeffrey Deaver wasn’t someone who I had ever read and it might be the biggest mistake I have made like ever, yes … his book was amazing.
Seriously, people do not pick up books with this kind of a title – tacky right – but the book was anything but tacky, no zombies or satan cults just pure genius mastermind work and all about puzzles!
Jeffrey Deaver will have you turning back pages to find what you missed. He will bring back the minor-istt details in such a huge way that it will keep you spell-bound throughout the book. Now that’s what I call a thriller. Some books I have read usually build the story up, gradually state facts and figures, give a little twist, and always publish all the fun in the end – meaning no thriller just a mystery but in a very boring way. Jeffrey Deaver on the other hand, came up with situation after situation and really pushed the limits about devising this unique thriller. No doubt you have to be real smart to do that in itself!
So here’s what the book is about.
A perfect crime pull-off. How far would you go if you had to pull off a perfect crime? How many puzzles and how many games will you play? The devil’s teardrop is about a man who knows only how to shoot and his owner – the person who plans the whole kill on new year’s night. He orders, the other shoots. Together they go beyond just killing and creating chaos in a city, together they spread fear and failure for the authorities. Anyone and everyone can die at the last minute of the last hour of the last day of the year. The criminal mastermind creates a mystery within a mystery and outruns all specialists and authorities with his ‘perfect plot’.
With this book, you will learn the mysteries of a letter which killers leave behind to confuse authorities and how specialists turn a simple letter into one of the most major leads!
Read the book to find out how the mastermind got tapped … that is if he got tapped 
!
Silent Witness – Richard North Patterson
Oh my Gosh, why in the world did I ever everr and I mean everrrr pick this book up and PAID for itt!!! *huge sad face*
Was it a decently plotted thriller?
YES
Was it a GOOD READ?
HELL *beep* NO!
BUT WHY? How can the author do this to us?
This Richard North Patterson and I gota have a serious talk! Okay, so I’ll stop exaggerating already, but uh – huh no way !!! This was just not my-kind-of-thriller … and I mean it when I say that. Peeps I usually finishhh-e-khalaaas a book within 3-4 days if its a real thriller, this one dragged on for an entire week and why did I even wana finish it within a week? to just get freaking over it.
Here is what I mean when I say my kind of thriller… Ever picked up a book by accident and you find yourself stuck with a love-affair kind of book with annoyingly lengthy descriptions of the situations, scenarios and the emotions? Well, the only difference with this one was that I did not pick it up by accident, I actually thought it was and well it is kind of a good laid out plot and a thriller but hello??? What’s all the repetitive descriptions about? Everyyy timmeee thee subjecttt cammee intooo theee boookk theee sameee desscripttiioonn wasss giiveenn aboouutt the sammmee olddd instanceee … annoying right?
By thrillers/mysteries we expect the on-the-edge of the chair kind of page turning experiences but this book was just a drag. Never going back to this author even if its another New York Times Best Seller darn it!
Here’s the story:
A murder takes place, a boy in question … case never closed … he is never charged, years after another similar murder takes place and his old times best friend is now suspected of the murder. Read (Or NAWT!) to find out how these years apart cases have a connection to each other and how the young boy now grown up to be one of the most famous lawyer’s comes back to town to save his friend from a murder charge but gets stuck in solving the riddle to his own old haunting past. Sounds good right? read at your own risk – it seriously tests your patience!
Ps. Books like these need to come with a red warning bulb. Sike!
The Abduction – Mark Gimenez
Here’s another review for all you book lovers. Firstly, I understand that people looking out for a serious plot would not pick this book up considering its title, but after reading a couple of reviews I decided to give it a try. Now the title tells us that the plan is quite straightforward. Kidnap a girl, hero goes save the girl and all happy ending to it right?
WRONG! *drum- roll please*! …
Yes, There is a huge history to go along with that all courtesy the author! All us thriller-addicts love it when it involves the government or some secret intelligence agency or you know, all the shish-kababs. In this book, ol gramps who happens to be this Green-Beret alcoholic hunk is at the rescue!
Well one aspect of the book was disturbing … too many coincidences. No matter where you read its review, you’ll find this statement for sure. When it comes to too many coincidences purposely placed in the story, it shows a weak plot laid down by the author or a desperate exit to the ending. Its almost like the author is just leading you on right … but readers will not be eventually disappointed, the coincidences were fair enough to give the story a decent read-through and ending!
And tain-taran, here is finally the story … A little girl kidnapped – but this is just not an ordinary kidnapping case of money or rape …nothing will save the girl except for the truth and the past. Read how one past connects to another and years after connects to this little girl’s kidnapping case. A former Green-Beret military man, his geeky son and the latter’s wife all are twisted into one big pool of mess while they uncover the mystery of the real reason behind this kid-snatching case!
Milk & Cookies to go along with that?
Millennium trilogy – Stieg Larsson
Three books
- The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo
- The Girl who played with Fire
- The Girl who kicked the Hornets’ Nest
One Word
Madness!
Stieg Larsson, a swedish author who brought Lisbeth Slander to life in his amazing books <— who I officially have a crush on, had initially wished to bring 10 books in the market, that is, before his death. He could only complete three and left us craving for more. These books are rightly described as thrillers and unlike those so-claimed authors who forget to do their job right in their thriller creations – Stieg has at least blown my mind away.
For an overview, these three books are based on a story of an highly intellectual little lady who controls her own world and the world around her with her technical powers. From rags to riches, she helps out in solving the most memorable crime riddle dragged on from years and finds pieces along the way to her own mysterious and horrifying past.
She rules! Rated 10/10! All Must – reads!
Ps. Read in order please or you’ll never get it.
