Two excellent arcs to round off October. Both thrillers - no surprise there.
Bloodland by Alan Glynn, a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller. Featuring a young journalist who uncovers a life threatening international conspiracy. Glynn taps into our obsession with celebrity, the murky world of big business, the high stakes of a political career in this world of internet and CNN and the one percent who pull the strings.
1222 by Anne Holt, rural Norway, a train crash; an old hotel, the storm of the century and trapped with the other passengers is a killer. I liked Holt's protagonist, Hanne. She reminded me of a younger bitter-er wheel chair bound version of Miss Marple. There are numerous red herrings along the way, as the body count rises and the passengers start to turn on one another.
Bloodland comes out in January 2012 and 1222 is published in December.
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