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Alex Connor is running away from life. After his wife's death, he wanted nothing except oblivion. Only his friend Sarah kept him going. Now she's been murdered, and though the police have the killer, they don't have her body. The gruesome search will drag Alex back into the land of the living - and the dead.
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First published June 1, 2009
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April 14, 2024
I was left suitably disturbed after putting this book down, it got so dark I felt like I needed to go and run in a field of daisies in a sunny place somewhere. Absolutely stunning book, terrifying, mind bending, twisted, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
I love the mind of Steve Mosby. This book is like a mash up of a really good crime novel with a touch of intelligent horror weaved through, enough to keep you on tender hooks, and wanting to keep the bedside light on. The ending of this book just had me stunned into silent shock.
Women are going missing, when their dead bodies turn up (the ones that do) they are drained of all their blood. All of it. Someone is draining it and getting off on their blood. It's got the police determined to find the killer, but it's not proving easy.
When Alex hears that his friend Sarah has been killed and they can't find her body, he rushes back from his years of travelling around the world, escaping the suicide death of his wife a few years earlier. Worse still, Alex's brother is in prison and confessed to the murder of Sarah. Things could not be much worse for Alex.
The book just goes to another level in relation to plot, a bizarre underground fetish scheme of the most disturbing nature is uncovered when Alex begins to investigate, he knows he's treading on dangerous ground but he gets given cryptic messages from his brother in prison and finds research that Sarah was doing before she vanished. What they uncovered will make you stop and breathe, and think, and breathe. Seriously deranged but very clever plot writing. I can't rave enough.
I don't want to give away too much but this is such an intelligent crime book, it's not obvious in the slightest, it threw up surprise after horrific surprise at me, and I have read a lot of crime novels as it's my most read genre, this is something really different. There is a dark element, a creepiness, something so rotten and so shocking that it truly did take me aback and I don't get like that reading often. I thought I had read it all in fact. I needed a shower after reading this, the stench of death and corpses seemed to permeate off the pages.
The police are on the case, Alex is on the case, their paths were going to cross at some point, but will the killer with the taste for blood be found? What is this underground fetish group all about? And what will they do to protect their dark and disturbing secrets. This is one of those novels where I thought to myself "Did Steve have to research this stuff and is IT really out there and people are into it?" and you know what, I am too scared to Google it but I bet it's rampant. Very scary.
The book is chillingly good, it really did send shivers up and down my spine, I could not stop reading it, it's a novel that reveals more and more as it goes but you cannot put it together, it's too complex but once it all becomes clear it's dynamic, it blew me away, where Steve Mosby gets his ideas from I have no idea, but this was bloody brilliant (pun intended).
There is evil going on, dark acts, involving many, this is not a simple serial killer case at all, to share more includes spoilers, and I so want to tell you about the rest of it because it's so darn good. If you like to be a bit creeped out whilst enjoying a good crime novel and are not afraid of the depths of human depravity, you will love this. I did, absolutely one of the best books I have read in years. Very, very clever writing. Read it and you will see what I mean.
Great storytelling, fantastic complex characters, brilliant plot, unique concepts, chilling moments, dark, depraved and so, so good. Sheer escapism for the hours it held me in its tight grip.
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I love the mind of Steve Mosby. This book is like a mash up of a really good crime novel with a touch of intelligent horror weaved through, enough to keep you on tender hooks, and wanting to keep the bedside light on. The ending of this book just had me stunned into silent shock.
Women are going missing, when their dead bodies turn up (the ones that do) they are drained of all their blood. All of it. Someone is draining it and getting off on their blood. It's got the police determined to find the killer, but it's not proving easy.
When Alex hears that his friend Sarah has been killed and they can't find her body, he rushes back from his years of travelling around the world, escaping the suicide death of his wife a few years earlier. Worse still, Alex's brother is in prison and confessed to the murder of Sarah. Things could not be much worse for Alex.
The book just goes to another level in relation to plot, a bizarre underground fetish scheme of the most disturbing nature is uncovered when Alex begins to investigate, he knows he's treading on dangerous ground but he gets given cryptic messages from his brother in prison and finds research that Sarah was doing before she vanished. What they uncovered will make you stop and breathe, and think, and breathe. Seriously deranged but very clever plot writing. I can't rave enough.
I don't want to give away too much but this is such an intelligent crime book, it's not obvious in the slightest, it threw up surprise after horrific surprise at me, and I have read a lot of crime novels as it's my most read genre, this is something really different. There is a dark element, a creepiness, something so rotten and so shocking that it truly did take me aback and I don't get like that reading often. I thought I had read it all in fact. I needed a shower after reading this, the stench of death and corpses seemed to permeate off the pages.
The police are on the case, Alex is on the case, their paths were going to cross at some point, but will the killer with the taste for blood be found? What is this underground fetish group all about? And what will they do to protect their dark and disturbing secrets. This is one of those novels where I thought to myself "Did Steve have to research this stuff and is IT really out there and people are into it?" and you know what, I am too scared to Google it but I bet it's rampant. Very scary.
The book is chillingly good, it really did send shivers up and down my spine, I could not stop reading it, it's a novel that reveals more and more as it goes but you cannot put it together, it's too complex but once it all becomes clear it's dynamic, it blew me away, where Steve Mosby gets his ideas from I have no idea, but this was bloody brilliant (pun intended).
There is evil going on, dark acts, involving many, this is not a simple serial killer case at all, to share more includes spoilers, and I so want to tell you about the rest of it because it's so darn good. If you like to be a bit creeped out whilst enjoying a good crime novel and are not afraid of the depths of human depravity, you will love this. I did, absolutely one of the best books I have read in years. Very, very clever writing. Read it and you will see what I mean.
Great storytelling, fantastic complex characters, brilliant plot, unique concepts, chilling moments, dark, depraved and so, so good. Sheer escapism for the hours it held me in its tight grip.
Thanks so much for reading my review! If you’d like to connect you can follow me or please send me a friend request. 🐱I love to read other reviews and talk about books we are reading.
If you are an Author and you’d like me to consider reading and reviewing your book please just message me.
You can also find me on
Twitter @bookishcats
(I follow back) and on Amazon U.K. where I am a Top 500 Reviewer as Booklover Catlady.
July 8, 2018
Dark, disturbing and a bit creepy. A line from the book "death has ripples" kind of encapsulates the feeling of this story. I struggled to get started with it as it was difficult to see where it was going, but once you got there it was pretty awesome. Way convoluted but also way dark.
Alex Connor comes back to England after drifting aimlessly around Europe for two years. He told himself he was running away from his guilt over his wife's suicide six months before but he was kidding himself. He comes back because his good friend, Sarah, has been reportedly killed by Alex's brother, James, no less. He soon realises that that Sarah, a journalist, was looking into something very disturbing. As Alex learns more he knows less but the trail involves a bunch of people obsessed with death and images of death. Like I said, its dark.
There's a policeman, Paul Kearney, who has also become obsessed with solving a series of deaths and disappearances of women. The few bodies that have been found have been completely drained of blood. But in his spare time he indulges another obsession, one that haunts his nightmares and involves a revolting apparition known as 'the yellow man'. No, there is no horror - well no paranormal horror. The horror in this book is all by the hands of ordinary mortals (and let's not forget the yellow man). Its convoluted and clues are doled out sparingly, but it does make some sort of twisted sense at the end, not that that is any more comforting. Shudder.
Alex Connor comes back to England after drifting aimlessly around Europe for two years. He told himself he was running away from his guilt over his wife's suicide six months before but he was kidding himself. He comes back because his good friend, Sarah, has been reportedly killed by Alex's brother, James, no less. He soon realises that that Sarah, a journalist, was looking into something very disturbing. As Alex learns more he knows less but the trail involves a bunch of people obsessed with death and images of death. Like I said, its dark.
There's a policeman, Paul Kearney, who has also become obsessed with solving a series of deaths and disappearances of women. The few bodies that have been found have been completely drained of blood. But in his spare time he indulges another obsession, one that haunts his nightmares and involves a revolting apparition known as 'the yellow man'. No, there is no horror - well no paranormal horror. The horror in this book is all by the hands of ordinary mortals (and let's not forget the yellow man). Its convoluted and clues are doled out sparingly, but it does make some sort of twisted sense at the end, not that that is any more comforting. Shudder.
May 18, 2011
I found this book as confusing as it was interesting. The concept of the novel (while very disturbing) was also quite intriguing. Detective Kearney's strange actions throughout the book began adding up (inmy mind) to something far more weird (disturbing would probably be a better word- but it was also a very unorthodox approach to what he was trying to do), although it is hard to blame him that he got so OVER-involved in the case. Steve Mosby has successfully created one of the creepiest characters I have ever seen/read, although the explanation and description of the "Yellow Man" was not what I wanted it to be.
The other thing I found hard to understand was the constant shifting between different characters and their stories, and although it all tied together (somewhat nicely) in the end, I still found myself straining to figure it out who was talking when...
It was an overall good horror novel, and I definitely want to look into other novels by this amazingly talented author!
The other thing I found hard to understand was the constant shifting between different characters and their stories, and although it all tied together (somewhat nicely) in the end, I still found myself straining to figure it out who was talking when...
It was an overall good horror novel, and I definitely want to look into other novels by this amazingly talented author!
September 29, 2021
The writing is not bad but it wasn’t for me at all. Somehow I missed “gruesome “ in checking out the blurb. Had I read the GR reviews first I wouldn’t have chosen this.
February 17, 2015
I read Steve Mosby's debut ''The Third Person'' a few years ago and was impressed with his writing and with his imagination. Sadly, he seemed to have too many ideas for that book and in trying to make them all fit into the story, things got a little cluttered. He's now on his fifth book, which suggests he's doing something right, so he deserves a second chance.
Alex Connor has been trying to negate the memory of his wife's suicide by running away. He's left all his friends behind and has barely been in touch with them for years. But now Sarah, one of his closest friends, has been murdered and the prime suspect is her partner, Alex's brother James. For Alex, this is the one thing that could call him home, as Sarah was the one who told him to confront death, not run from it.
Sarah isn't the only recent victim, as there are a string of murdered young women, many of whose bodies were never found. A former prisoner turned artist and a member of a website that specialises in pictures of corpses have come to the attention of detective Paul Kearney, who is looking for one of the missing women. But Kearney also has demons from his past haunting him.
Mosby has changed his style from the last book of his I read. Although there are a number of aspects to the story, they all fit together nicely and there is a single obvious basic idea. There are plenty of plot strands, but they never seem muddled or get in each other's way, as has happened with Mosby's writing before. Even better, there was a brief, barely mentioned idea that never came to fruition, but sat huddled in the background like a malevolent presence you never see.
This is not a book for the faint of heart, as it's a very dark tale. There are some very unpleasant themes here, with child pornography being touched on as well. This is a book that can turn the stomach as much as it can entertain. But despite this it's a compelling read; one of those things where you don't want to watch, but can't tear yourself away. This is car crash literature and you may hate yourself for reading on, but you may be unable to help it.
This is Mosby's greatest triumph, as he has taken something disturbing and turned it into something which is somehow attractive. If you happened across an example of the type of website mentioned here, you'd likely be disgusted. The behaviour of many of the characters is something you may see on the news and wonder what the world was coming to. But in this form, it's such a well told story with so much happening that it as fascinating as it is disturbing, even whilst you sense the horrific nature of events around the edges.
If there's one downfall, it's that there isn't a lot of emotion from the characters. Whilst they seem occasionally disgusted and Kearney is going through some unpleasant circumstances, there's nothing really pervasive. There is a touch of guilt and some regret and disgust, but whilst things are well enough described that you can ascribe your own emotions to the characters, their own aren't always obvious. This makes it tough to relate, as the characters don't always seem completely real and their lack of reaction makes events feel a little sterile at times.
However, the emotions the book makes the reader feel make up for the lack of the same from the characters and it's a very well paced and well thought out story. The basic idea, although disturbing, is a good one and whilst it's an uncomfortable read sometimes, it's certainly a compelling one. My opinion of Steve Mosby's writing improved greatly between the front and back covers of this book.
This review may also appear, in whole or in part, under my name at any or all of www.ciao.co.uk, www.thebookbag.co.uk, www.goodreads.com, www.amazon.co.uk and www.dooyoo.co.uk
Alex Connor has been trying to negate the memory of his wife's suicide by running away. He's left all his friends behind and has barely been in touch with them for years. But now Sarah, one of his closest friends, has been murdered and the prime suspect is her partner, Alex's brother James. For Alex, this is the one thing that could call him home, as Sarah was the one who told him to confront death, not run from it.
Sarah isn't the only recent victim, as there are a string of murdered young women, many of whose bodies were never found. A former prisoner turned artist and a member of a website that specialises in pictures of corpses have come to the attention of detective Paul Kearney, who is looking for one of the missing women. But Kearney also has demons from his past haunting him.
Mosby has changed his style from the last book of his I read. Although there are a number of aspects to the story, they all fit together nicely and there is a single obvious basic idea. There are plenty of plot strands, but they never seem muddled or get in each other's way, as has happened with Mosby's writing before. Even better, there was a brief, barely mentioned idea that never came to fruition, but sat huddled in the background like a malevolent presence you never see.
This is not a book for the faint of heart, as it's a very dark tale. There are some very unpleasant themes here, with child pornography being touched on as well. This is a book that can turn the stomach as much as it can entertain. But despite this it's a compelling read; one of those things where you don't want to watch, but can't tear yourself away. This is car crash literature and you may hate yourself for reading on, but you may be unable to help it.
This is Mosby's greatest triumph, as he has taken something disturbing and turned it into something which is somehow attractive. If you happened across an example of the type of website mentioned here, you'd likely be disgusted. The behaviour of many of the characters is something you may see on the news and wonder what the world was coming to. But in this form, it's such a well told story with so much happening that it as fascinating as it is disturbing, even whilst you sense the horrific nature of events around the edges.
If there's one downfall, it's that there isn't a lot of emotion from the characters. Whilst they seem occasionally disgusted and Kearney is going through some unpleasant circumstances, there's nothing really pervasive. There is a touch of guilt and some regret and disgust, but whilst things are well enough described that you can ascribe your own emotions to the characters, their own aren't always obvious. This makes it tough to relate, as the characters don't always seem completely real and their lack of reaction makes events feel a little sterile at times.
However, the emotions the book makes the reader feel make up for the lack of the same from the characters and it's a very well paced and well thought out story. The basic idea, although disturbing, is a good one and whilst it's an uncomfortable read sometimes, it's certainly a compelling one. My opinion of Steve Mosby's writing improved greatly between the front and back covers of this book.
This review may also appear, in whole or in part, under my name at any or all of www.ciao.co.uk, www.thebookbag.co.uk, www.goodreads.com, www.amazon.co.uk and www.dooyoo.co.uk
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August 4, 2022A sinopse apresentava todos os ingredientes para este ser um livro que me enchesse as medidas. Desde um protagonista com um passado trágico, cadáveres desaparecidos, até descender a um mundo negro e sinistro.
Após ouvir várias opiniões de excelência de leitores com gostos semelhantes ao meu, decidi me atirar de cabeça neste "Mar de sangue".
Infelizmente rapidamente deparei-me com o Monstro das Altas Expectativas a me minar a leitura. Este, aliado ao facto de a minha capacidade de concentração e tempo/energia disponíveis para a sua leitura serem diminutos, são as justificações que encontro para o facto de esta história não me ter arrebatado. A dada altura dei por mim, inclusivé, a comentar com amigas que "Mar de sangue" não me estava "a prender" e que me sentia "um pouco perdida".
Ao escrever esta opinião (semanas após ter concluído a leitura) outro aspecto que me ocorre é o facto de que, se tivesse lido esta história há alguns anos, provavelmente o seu efeito sobre mim teria sido outro. Entretanto outros personagens e histórias com alguns pontos em comum se entranharam em mim.
Atenção! Recomendo, sem dúvida alguma, este livro de Steve Mosby e faço questão de ler mais obras do autor. Simplesmente "Mar de sangue" não me submergiu como imaginei que faria.
Junho 2022
Após ouvir várias opiniões de excelência de leitores com gostos semelhantes ao meu, decidi me atirar de cabeça neste "Mar de sangue".
Infelizmente rapidamente deparei-me com o Monstro das Altas Expectativas a me minar a leitura. Este, aliado ao facto de a minha capacidade de concentração e tempo/energia disponíveis para a sua leitura serem diminutos, são as justificações que encontro para o facto de esta história não me ter arrebatado. A dada altura dei por mim, inclusivé, a comentar com amigas que "Mar de sangue" não me estava "a prender" e que me sentia "um pouco perdida".
Ao escrever esta opinião (semanas após ter concluído a leitura) outro aspecto que me ocorre é o facto de que, se tivesse lido esta história há alguns anos, provavelmente o seu efeito sobre mim teria sido outro. Entretanto outros personagens e histórias com alguns pontos em comum se entranharam em mim.
Atenção! Recomendo, sem dúvida alguma, este livro de Steve Mosby e faço questão de ler mais obras do autor. Simplesmente "Mar de sangue" não me submergiu como imaginei que faria.
Junho 2022
February 10, 2013
Alex Connor quer fugir do passado. Após o suicídio da mulher, Marie, Alex refugia-se em viagens e na amiga Sarah que tenta ajudá-lo nesta fase difícil por que está a passar.
Mas Sarah desaparece e, embora nunca se tenha encontrado o seu corpo, é dada como morta. Alex tenta descobrir o que se passou e acaba por enveredar por um caminho obscuro, onde descobre que várias mulheres foram mortas e embora os seus corpos nunca tenham sido encontrados, sabe-se que estas morreram sob tortura: o assassino deixa-as a esvaírem-se em sangue!!
Mas só com a ajuda de Paul Kearney, um agente da polícia, Alex irá conseguir, por fim, descobrir o mistério que se esconde por detrás destas mortes!
"Mar de Sangue" foi a minha estreia com este autor. É um policial bom e com um conceito interessante mas que na minha opinião poderia ter sido mais bem explorado, pelo que ficou um pouco aquém das minhas expectativas, que eram elevadas, em relação a este livro. No entanto, será um autor para continuar a seguir!
Mas Sarah desaparece e, embora nunca se tenha encontrado o seu corpo, é dada como morta. Alex tenta descobrir o que se passou e acaba por enveredar por um caminho obscuro, onde descobre que várias mulheres foram mortas e embora os seus corpos nunca tenham sido encontrados, sabe-se que estas morreram sob tortura: o assassino deixa-as a esvaírem-se em sangue!!
Mas só com a ajuda de Paul Kearney, um agente da polícia, Alex irá conseguir, por fim, descobrir o mistério que se esconde por detrás destas mortes!
"Mar de Sangue" foi a minha estreia com este autor. É um policial bom e com um conceito interessante mas que na minha opinião poderia ter sido mais bem explorado, pelo que ficou um pouco aquém das minhas expectativas, que eram elevadas, em relação a este livro. No entanto, será um autor para continuar a seguir!
February 23, 2025
Geweldig boek!
February 10, 2013
Steve Mosby is an amazing writer. Each paragraph of the book makes you itch for what is going to happen next! And one thing I like to mention about him while recommending his books to others is that usually when I read books I see a female writer with a delicate pose in the pictures but here it was unexpected to see a male writer whom I would never even guess is a writer by his looks!
This is the second book I am reading, the first one was "Cry for help" which was also equally breathtakingly moving and honestly there is no way you can put that book down or this. The only thing I find a bit hard is to catch up with the amount of characters there are in the book! And sometimes the writer uses the characters second name so it becomes a bit tough for me to remember all the characters first and second names.
Other than that, even though my friends find it weird that I am reading such a disturbing book, I actually don't find it disturbing at all. There are so many dark sides of the world, the more we are aware of it, the easier it is to live in it. That's at least how I see it.
This is the second book I am reading, the first one was "Cry for help" which was also equally breathtakingly moving and honestly there is no way you can put that book down or this. The only thing I find a bit hard is to catch up with the amount of characters there are in the book! And sometimes the writer uses the characters second name so it becomes a bit tough for me to remember all the characters first and second names.
Other than that, even though my friends find it weird that I am reading such a disturbing book, I actually don't find it disturbing at all. There are so many dark sides of the world, the more we are aware of it, the easier it is to live in it. That's at least how I see it.
January 26, 2011
Astrid you might like this one. pyscholigically dark and menacing, not ghosts thought but depraved people. Good story though, alot of twists etc.
October 18, 2011
Another dark, sick book. 50/50 was better, but this was also a nice book to read. There's sometime about his writing that makes me wanna keep reading and reading.
September 12, 2016
Solid (and very) dark thriller. Definitely one to keep you guessing.
July 26, 2018
Na de zelfmoord van zijn vrouw Marie verlaat Alex Connor zijn land. Op de vlucht voor zijn herinneringen aan de dood. Als hij een paar jaar later op de televisie een bericht ziet over de moord op zijn vriendin Sarah komen de herinneringen weer naar boven. En keert Alex terug naar zijn vaderland.
Daar gaat hij, op eigen gelegenheid, op zoek naar het lichaam van Sarah. Dat de politie nog niet gevonden heeft. Daarbij stuit hij op allerlei mysterieuze en dubieuze zaken. En op mensen die van de dood een hobby hebben gemaakt. Door deze speurtocht komt Alex zelf in grote moeilijkheden, waar hij ternauwernood aan ontkomt.
Dit alles wordt door Mosby op een goed leesbare manier geschreven. Daarom leest Wat je niet wilt zien wel prettig en vlot. Toch is het verhaal niet overal even helder. Sterker nog, op sommige momenten is het zelfs verwarrend. Daardoor weet de lezer niet meer precies wat bedoeld wordt en met vraagtekens achterblijft.
De spanning die in het eerste boek van Mosby in ruime mate aanwezig was, kon ik in dit boek hoegenaamd niet terugvinden. Zeker, er waren momenten dat het even spannend werd. Maar die waren helaas van te korte duur. Daardoor is Wat je niet wilt zien een boek geworden dat aardig is om te lezen, maar waar volgens mij veel meer in gezeten had dan er uitgehaald is.
Daar gaat hij, op eigen gelegenheid, op zoek naar het lichaam van Sarah. Dat de politie nog niet gevonden heeft. Daarbij stuit hij op allerlei mysterieuze en dubieuze zaken. En op mensen die van de dood een hobby hebben gemaakt. Door deze speurtocht komt Alex zelf in grote moeilijkheden, waar hij ternauwernood aan ontkomt.
Dit alles wordt door Mosby op een goed leesbare manier geschreven. Daarom leest Wat je niet wilt zien wel prettig en vlot. Toch is het verhaal niet overal even helder. Sterker nog, op sommige momenten is het zelfs verwarrend. Daardoor weet de lezer niet meer precies wat bedoeld wordt en met vraagtekens achterblijft.
De spanning die in het eerste boek van Mosby in ruime mate aanwezig was, kon ik in dit boek hoegenaamd niet terugvinden. Zeker, er waren momenten dat het even spannend werd. Maar die waren helaas van te korte duur. Daardoor is Wat je niet wilt zien een boek geworden dat aardig is om te lezen, maar waar volgens mij veel meer in gezeten had dan er uitgehaald is.
July 22, 2023
I can't compare this book to Steve Mosby's other books because I haven't read any of the others. But what I will say is, this author is very good at getting into the heads of the characters. This novel is about a detective and a friend who are investigating the same serial killer but on different playing fields. One is doing it because it's his job and the other is doing it because one of the victims is his friend. This storyline takes on a journey to hell and back. Just when you think you know what's going to happen, you are proven wrong. It brought different emotions to my reading experience that I don't usually experience such as disgust, sadness, anger, happiness and worry. This author is good at making you feel when you read. It's almost as if your are one of the characters. I had to take many breaks because of the intensity of the writing but I enjoyed it and would read something else from this author.
May 7, 2017
I really like Mosby's writting, he certainly knows how to develop stories and characters in always a sad, beautiful way. One thing he does though, ends up getting old as it happen in almost all books... There's always that hired mercenary who doesn't really like to kill and blahblah blah. It gets boring and predictable...
This novel was not my favorite by him, by far. The plot was so convoluted I'm not sure I grasped all the organization aimed at or how it worked and unfortunately, I didn't care enough to try harder to understand. Besides, too many coincidences. That last part was way too much...
I am still keeping the author among my favorites and will read more from him, but perhaps a pause for the time being is necessary.
This novel was not my favorite by him, by far. The plot was so convoluted I'm not sure I grasped all the organization aimed at or how it worked and unfortunately, I didn't care enough to try harder to understand. Besides, too many coincidences. That last part was way too much...
I am still keeping the author among my favorites and will read more from him, but perhaps a pause for the time being is necessary.
February 28, 2020
I'd tried to read Still Bleeding once before, but the opening subject matter about a wife feeling worthless and then committing suicide, felt a little too raw for me. Although, not suicidal, I was not in a good place mentally.
Eventually, on this second instance having made it past that first part, I enjoyed the book. A crime thriller with some twisty turns and plenty of thorns. Here are some of Steve's words from that first part:
I was oblivious to the fact the world had quietly shattered without my noticing.
Eventually, on this second instance having made it past that first part, I enjoyed the book. A crime thriller with some twisty turns and plenty of thorns. Here are some of Steve's words from that first part:
I was oblivious to the fact the world had quietly shattered without my noticing.
January 9, 2023
Yikes! The confident subtlety of the setting out of this tale a salutary lesson in writing, strongly reminding me of my first impressions - the breathless, blown-away impact - of reading Manda Scott's 'No good deed'. Had a similar level of the horrific lengths some men go to for their own gratification, too, but, for me, this truly a five star plus novel, and I'll certainly be seeking out more by this writer.
December 21, 2018
Intriguing, well written with an unusual plot that left me hoping for a bit more. Still Bleeding the sequel. Steve Mosby reminds me of some really good English writers of horror such as James Herbert.
May 7, 2022
I received this book from The Beautiful Book Company. It was chosen for me based on my reading preferences. It isn't a book I would have chosen for myself. I struggled to read it, but hoped it would improve if I perservered.
July 14, 2017
Was sometimes a bit confused?!?! Good though.
July 22, 2017
Intriguing thriller
Good characters, some interesting plot twists, couldn't put it down as wanted to find out what happened next. Would recommend.
Good characters, some interesting plot twists, couldn't put it down as wanted to find out what happened next. Would recommend.
April 4, 2018
I have never been truly horrified or disturbed days after reading a book. This one achieved it.
April 26, 2018
Excellent!
May 28, 2018
The plot was confusing, and did not hang together, too far fetched.
September 29, 2019
Another book my wife suggested I read. Whilst I did not like it as much as she did it was a reasonable read. Good if not scattered plot though I worked out sections especially the end.
April 23, 2020
A masterclass in crime writing. A disturbing and compelling novel set in a place where normal rules don't apply, where people trade murder memorabilia, where life is only the first thing you lose.
April 24, 2020
wat een verhaal en wat een einde. zeker lezen als je van horror houdt.
May 6, 2021
I was interested enough to finish it, hence the 3 stars. However, this book was a confusing mess. I love some of this author’s other books so not giving up on him yet.
June 8, 2023
hmmm
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