Tag: Suspense

#Classics Club: Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne (1867)

This post contains minor spoilers. My Classics Club list contains quite a few novels that I read in an abridged form in my childhood. One such text is Jules Verne's French classic Voyage au centre de la Terre, first published in 1864. A revised version containing additional chapters appeared in 1867. It is this edition … Continue reading #Classics Club: Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne (1867) →

Earthshaker: The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico (1969)

There are minor spoilers in this post so please consider yourself warned. Then why did hope persist? Why this upward striving, this eternal climbing by himself and these ill-assorted people, castaways in a floating tomb, the odds on whose chances for rescue were astronomical? A group of people, herded together because of some natural calamity … Continue reading Earthshaker: The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico (1969) →

The #1956 Club: The Diehard by Jean Potts

"You've had your cake and et it too, all these years." Lew Morgan is the undisputed king of Turk Ridge. Once a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Lew has made it to the top, by his enterprise and industriousness, as well as by marrying Olive Whitt, whose father had owned everything in … Continue reading The #1956 Club: The Diehard by Jean Potts →

Review: The Stroyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

Is Truth something set in stone or something shimmery seen differently in different lights? This is the question that Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya attempts in his novel: The Storyteller of Marrakesh.A young couple - the man an Indian, the woman a westerner - are seen walking round the Jemma on a particular day. Soon afterwards the couple … Continue reading Review: The Stroyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya →

Death of a Family: Andrea Maria Schenkel’s The Murder Farm

In a remote farmhouse, six people have been brutally murdered, two of them kids ( one of them barely out of the crib) and one a maid who had but joined the house-hold. The village community is shocked. Who could have been the devil to murder defenceless people thus? Andrea Maria Schenkel's award-winning debut novel, … Continue reading Death of a Family: Andrea Maria Schenkel’s The Murder Farm →

Forgotten Book: V is for (The) Vision by Dean R. Koontz

He went out closing the door behind him, leaving her alone with Max.Mary Bergen is a psychic who helps the police track down and capture serial-killers, at times right at the moment they are about to murder somebody. However, lately there has been a change in Mary's life. For long, it was her brother Alan … Continue reading Forgotten Book: V is for (The) Vision by Dean R. Koontz →

Forgotten Book: The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier

A middle-aged Honor Harris is visited by two young men of her acquaintance who appraise her of various happenings around the world even as the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, rules over England. Then one of them asks about the mysterious disappearance of Dick Grenvile and this question sets Honor reminiscencing about the past.I had no … Continue reading Forgotten Book: The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier →