Nancy Drew, Girl Detective - Trails of Treachery - Carolyn Keene - first published 2007
This is a children's book but it combines a fast paced thriller with a good description of the Costa Rican countryside. Nancy's friend George is competing in a coast to coast mountain bike race called La Ruta. She and mutual friend Bess have come to be her support team. They make friends with 2 other competitors - Sharine and her boyfriend Derek, who is one of the favourites to win La Ruta. However someone is trying hard to sabotage his chances of winning and will stop at nothing to ensure that Derek never finishes the race. Nancy decides to investigate 8/10
13th April 2012
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Book 68, Country 74 - Panama
The Tailor of Panama by John Le Carre - first published in 1996
I found this book very very dull and after a while found I was reading the words but not really taking anything in. Even when I was concentrating I didn't understand the plot. It is something to do with the politics surrounding the Panama Canal. I think I must have been reading a completely different book to the one reviewed on the flyleaf, which promised suspense, compassion, wit and an explosively terrifying finale. I did not find it in the least thrilling. 1/10
11th April 2012
I found this book very very dull and after a while found I was reading the words but not really taking anything in. Even when I was concentrating I didn't understand the plot. It is something to do with the politics surrounding the Panama Canal. I think I must have been reading a completely different book to the one reviewed on the flyleaf, which promised suspense, compassion, wit and an explosively terrifying finale. I did not find it in the least thrilling. 1/10
11th April 2012
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