Book Review | One Beats The Bush by Riall Nolan - The First in the Max Donovan Adventure Series

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One Beats The Bush is a well-paced action thriller that ticks multiple boxes; page-turning twists, fight scenes, a lot of crime and, more importantly, a main character you cannot help but love. Vietnam veteran Max Donovan is in Bangkok, and very hungover, when his friend “Fat” Freddie Fields is arrested in San Francisco for the murder of an Australian diplomat. He knows his old buddy would never hurt a fly, so he rushes back to the Bay Area to help. Suspecting Freddie is being framed, Donovan tries to rustle up some cash to bail him out, but only succeeds in getting into trouble with the local mob.  He’ll have to solve the case on his own. Unfortunately, the only clue he has suggest the answer lies in the jungle-covered mountains of Papua New Guinea. As he comes face-to-face with smugglers, hostile tribesmen, insurgents, and a web of corruption and deception, can Donovan achieve what is seemingly impossible? Nolan has managed to achieve a page-turning action thriller that doesn’t feel
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Book Review | Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister - A Top Read of 2023

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After finishing Wrong Place Wrong Time my only regret was not reading the book sooner. I fell in love from the first chapter and I now completely understand the hype this book receives all over Twitter, every bit deserved and more. 

It’s every parent’s nightmare. Your happy, funny, innocent son commits a terrible crime: murdering a complete stranger. You don’t know who. You don’t know why. You only know you teenage boy is in custody and his future lost. That night you fall asleep in despair. Until you wake… and it is yesterday. Every morning you wake up a day earlier, another day before the murder. Another chance to stop it. Somewhere in the past lie the answers, and you don’t have a choice but to find them…

My favourite thing about Wrong Place Wrong Time is the way it felt so effortless to read. I sped through the first 100 pages without even realising, I just became entirely immersed in the story. I get very easily distracted when I’m reading so its always such a great feeling when I find a book that I can’t peel myself away from.

This is the type of book you wont be able to stop thinking about - I was constantly thinking about what was going to happen next. It consumed my brain all day every day, even days after I had finished reading the book, and that is everything I want in a thriller. 

I will not stop recommending this book to everyone who will listen. I wish I could go back and read it again for the first time! Ps, please tell me I’m not the only one questioning every deja vu moments I’ve experienced in life.

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