Hit and Run
Upstate Mystery #1

Hit and Run by Doug Johnson is a fast read! Set in the Edinburgh, beneath the towering Salisbury Crags and King Arthur’s Seat. One night Doug, Zoe & Charlie are driving home, they’d been drinking and taking pills. They are admiringly the beautiful night sky when there is a sudden impact ..... they h......more

You’d think it would be hard to mess up a book like this. Three kids are driving home from a night out, off their heads on booze and pills, when their car hits a pedestrian on a quiet road. They drag the body into the undergrowth and drive home. Great premise, right? Will they get caught? The twist......more

Just didn’t do it for me, I’m afraid. This is slightly unfair on the author because the last book I read was an absolutely corker of a read and everything else compares unfavourably. However I gave it 50% but just had to give up on it. My issue here, I think, is that in ‘Hit and Run’ there was poor c......more

A good page-turner - both in terms of the action and suspense, and the moral dilemma that the protagonist had to go through. It really is true that emotional and mental stress will eventually translate to something physical. I believe it is the way of God (or of nature for the unbelievers) of bearin......more

Un libro carino, che mi ha accompagnato in un viaggio in aereo e in uno in treno, ad una certa mi è sembrato pure di impazzire con il protagonista. Mi ero fatta tutto un mio trip mentale (che secondo me sarebbe stato più figo di quello che poi è stata la conclusione vera e propria) e alla fine era t......more