Blurb: Charlie Howard - mystery writer and professional thief - is flush with the success of his Paris book reading when he agrees to show a novice the basics of the trade by breaking into the man's own apartment. Trouble ensues when it turns out the apartment belongs to someone else. The next day, ...
Read by Simon VanceThanks Renee. I have the Paris one too!:O)Raffles is the Gentleman Thief, and here we have arthritic Charlie, the fiction-writer thief. It works; instantly engaging.BLURB: This impressive debut, a comic whodunit from British entertainment lawyer Ewan, owes much of its charm and s...
Coming 1st August from Faber & FaberHaving loved "Safe House" I was very much looking forward to this novel from Mr Ewan and I was very excited to receive a copy from Netgalley - thank you kindly.Daniel Trent works in the dangerous field of hostage negotiation...along with his fiancee Aimee. When Ai...
Was expecting big things as this was high in the Kindle charts, but it was a pedestrian thriller. The title didn't live up to the name and wasn't really descriptive. The format was also odd and annoying, from first person chapters to third person following other people. Readable, but not great.
If Chris Ewan was an architect, his philosophy wouldn't be "less is more", Corbusier is he not. His buildings would probably be of Richard Roger's intricate steel structures. His detective story sure is. Well, probably not that complicated but I can see how he revels in plots & details, there's a co...
Excellent story with lots of twists and turns and it makes a pleasant change to read a thriller that is not set in the big cities of the World. Also nice to have a hero who is a plumber cum amateur TT rider rather than a policeman, ex-special forces member or a lawyer.A good read!
Charlie Howard writes books about thieves and suspense. He's also a thief himself. Approached by a man who wants him to steal three monkey figurines of little apparent value, but the theft must occur in a certain time frame. Charlie decides, against his better judgment (the money's really good,) ...
Whenever I travel, I try to read a book before hand that has something to do with that locale. This summer I traveled to the Netherlands and picked 2 books to read - Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (great story but has almost nothing to do with Amsterdam) and The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam. This is t...
Before Part One begins we read a brief reflective account of the motorbike crash. In Part One Rob has regained consciousness in hospital. We learn the doctors attribute Lena to Rob’s head trauma, which can cause cognitive disruption. Rob’s background is shared and we read how he met Lena. He’s r...
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