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             The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. "But I know something happened on Saturday. I knew it when I looked into that dark tunnel under the railway line, my blood turning to ice water in my veins." This is Paula Hawkins' first thriller which may be hard to believe once you immerse yourself into this incredible psychological thriller. It is an accomplished piece of fiction, gripping, assured and confident with inescapable tension. Highly recommended. Zimbabwe-born author Paula Hawkins took six months to write this thriller. She had to borrow money from her father during this period. Inevitably, comparisons have been made with Gone Girl with the use of unreliable narrators and a disappearing wife. Hawkins' novel is less psychotic and the author seems to pay homage to Hitchcock especially Strangers on a Train and Rear Window . Rachel Watson is the girl on the train. She is described in negative terms throughout: pathetic...

                   Where Lies My Heart by K.J.Rollinson. "Her mind told her that things couldn't be the same. She was soiled by the men who had used her body, and…and….She pushed the image from her mind of the knife between her legs." Rollinson presents the reader with a mixture of romance and terror set in a number of politically volatile areas of Eastern Africa with corrupt governments, terrorists and sex trafficking. The author has researched her subject well presenting historical facts of events that occurred as well as accurate medical records. Other subjects to whet your appetite deal with female mutilation-circumcision, inhumane torture and the sale of illegal human organs. Intense. Ian Cornwell, the protagonist was fourteen at the start of the novel. The initial setting is Birmingham, U.K. relatively stable apart from the usual yobbos at football matches, tanked up with booze, out to cause trouble. It is May 1985. A ch...