Reservoir Pups - Colin Bateman

Orpheus Rising - Colin Bateman

Thankfully not all authors fail here, some reinvigorate themselves and once more show the world their talent. I am glad to say that with Orpheus Rising Colin Bateman just may have reinvented himself as a more mature and intelligent author. Michael Ryan is the author of Space Coast a sensation that rocked the US ten years ago. The book tells the story of a small town and it was based on Michael s real life. However, in the early days of the book being published a tragedy shook Michael s life when his wife, Claire, was shot dead during a bank robbery. Now Michael is preparing to return to the small town he once lived in after ten years to explore the past. This ...

Orpheus Rising - Colin Bateman

Thankfully not all authors fail here, some reinvigorate themselves and once more show the world their talent. I am glad to say that with Orpheus Rising Colin Bateman just may have reinvented himself as a more mature and intelligent author. Michael Ryan is the author of Space Coast a sensation that rocked the US ten years ago. The book tells the story of a small town and it was based on Michael s real life. However, in the early days of the book being published a tragedy shook Michael s life when his wife, Claire, was shot dead during a bank robbery. Now Michael is preparing to return to the small town he once lived in after ten years to explore the past. This ...

I Predict a Riot - Colin Bateman

thinking. Quite often, a crime novel will go through the basics of someone s thought, but leaves out the comedy aspect as it doesn t fit in with the book. Bateman, by giving us this darkly funny side, provides us with an overly long book that could have gone on for hours and kept me happy. The paragraphs are relatively short, keeping to 5 or 6 pages a chapter, sometimes longer. The characters lives all end up converging with each other more and more as the story progresses, but I have to confess that for the first 100-150 pages or so, I thought I had picked up the wrong book! It sets the scene with all the characters other than Mallow and Harrison, and mentions hardly ...

I Predict a Riot - Colin Bateman

thinking. Quite often, a crime novel will go through the basics of someone s thought, but leaves out the comedy aspect as it doesn t fit in with the book. Bateman, by giving us this darkly funny side, provides us with an overly long book that could have gone on for hours and kept me happy. The paragraphs are relatively short, keeping to 5 or 6 pages a chapter, sometimes longer. The characters lives all end up converging with each other more and more as the story progresses, but I have to confess that for the first 100-150 pages or so, I thought I had picked up the wrong book! It sets the scene with all the characters other than Mallow and Harrison, and mentions hardly ...

Belfast Confidential - Colin Bateman

This is the seventh book in the series from Colin Bateman following the exploits of Belfast journalist Dan Starkey. For those who have not read any of the previous books I would not recommend starting with this one as the character is quite well developed by now and it would be better to start off with reading Divorcing Jack which is the first in the series. The Plot The opening of the book finds Starkey moving in to a new house with his longsuffering wife Patricia. His best mate Mouse is also with him supposedly helping out however in reality all he succeeds in doing is killing next doors cat. Having buried the dead moggie the two soon find themselves in a pub getting ...

Belfast Confidential - Colin Bateman

This is the seventh book in the series from Colin Bateman following the exploits of Belfast journalist Dan Starkey. For those who have not read any of the previous books I would not recommend starting with this one as the character is quite well developed by now and it would be better to start off with reading Divorcing Jack which is the first in the series. The Plot The opening of the book finds Starkey moving in to a new house with his longsuffering wife Patricia. His best mate Mouse is also with him supposedly helping out however in reality all he succeeds in doing is killing next doors cat. Having buried the dead moggie the two soon find themselves in a pub getting ...