Catch Me When I Fall - Nicci French

==Background:== I am currently looking for new and different authors, who produce good quality suspense or mystery novels. I have become bored with the usual material I read and I am on the look out for something fresh to me. However, when I went to the library this week nothing took my fancy so I went back to an old favourite instead. ==About the author:== The combined writing skills of husband and wife writing duo Nicci Gerrard and Sean French are the pseudonym Nicci French. They are international acclaimed writers mainly within the psychological thrillers arena. So far they have written 11 novels together but they also write ...  Read the complete review

Holly Krauss lives life on the edge. She's an adrenalin junkie who gets by on nervous energy and lots and lots of coffee and very little sleep. So when she goes out to a bar after work one day with her colleagues, they aren't really surprised to see her stepping into an argument between a drunk businessman and the female bartender. Initially the bully man tells her where to go, but having charmed him with her audacity, she is soon drinking with him and his friends. Her colleagues, having seen it all before, leave her alone to fend for herself. Events after that are shady - Holly remembers going to a nightclub with the man, of drinking more and more and then ...  Read the complete review

Holly Krauss lives life in the fast lane. She runs a young company with her best friend Meg, organising bonding weekends for worn out businessmen and women. Her marriage to Charlie is in its first year and she hangs onto the guilt she felt that it was Meg who fancied him first. If there is a party, Holly is there. If there is alcohol, Holly is there. If there is a punch up, Holly is there. In fact anything dosed with adrenalin or risk and Holly seems to be there. She constantly puts herself in jeopardy and stupidly never sees it until it is too late. This time however, she may have gone too far. Having a cocaine fuelled one night stand with a ...  Read the complete review

Holly Krauss has everything going for her. A loving husband, a successful business which she co-owns with her best friend Meg and boundless energy to attack anything life throws at her. Admired by all and loved by many she has tremendous zest and works herself into the ground with no ill effects. She seems to thrive on a very little sleep, which would seriously harm a lesser mortal, until one night when it all comes unraveled. The book begins with her in a bar with Meg discussing work problems when she witnesses a man being exceptionally rude to the foreign barmaid who doesn't speak English very well and is very intimidated. The man is large and domineering ...  Read the complete review

Holly Kraus who would have thought it. Thats what her colleges and her works mates might say as Holly a successful young businesswoman and a partner in a firm puts work before all else even her own safety and fragility. The book keeps you in suspense so that you can't put it down waiting for the next disaster or triumph to happen. Holly certainly lives her life on the edge but who will catch her when she falls. Will it be her business partner or her life partner or will she destroy both relationships along the ...  Read the complete review