Until I rummaged around in a bag of books lent to me by a friend and pulled out Fallen Idols by Neil White I'd never heard of him. I scanned the back and discovered it was about someone killing football stars and decided to give it a go. Firstly Henri Dumas is shot dead on a busy London street, no-one knows why or who did it. Jack Garrett, a crime reporter happens to be in the neighbourhood at the time and senses this could be a big scoop for him. He decides to go for the Team Captain angle and as he's from the same little village in Lancashire as the Team Captain, David Watts, he thinks he can gather sufficient background information to pad his story and ...  Read the complete review

I read this all day yesterday and I loved it. I couldn't go to work because of a bad back and this kept me occupied. I read it whilst I was sitting down and also whilst I was walking around the room to stretch my back! This kept me happy all day. So that's why I read it but what happens? The back of the book is well presented with the who, what, why, where, when and how scenario - literally listed. It's short and to the point, much better than a paragraph. Henri Dumas is a premiership football player and the novel starts with him being killed in cold blood in the street. There are two estate agents also murdered in a nearby flat, why? This is the start of the ...  Read the complete review