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Grave Doubts

Author: Elizabeth Corley
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

11 reviews
Sales Rank: 730

Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 720
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.4 x 1.9

ISBN: 0749080000
EAN: 9780749080006
ASIN: 0749080000

Publication Date: June 25, 2007
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Terrific thriller February 18, 2007
13 out of 13 found this review helpful

Elizabeth Corley joins the ranks of must-read crime writers with this police procedural, psychological thriller. Although a little slow to get going, once it did, this hooked me and I couldn't put it down.

Grave Doubts has a truly evil, sadistic killer, with likeable detectives that I'd be happy to read more about. It's tense and you never quite know how it's going to end up. I won't spoil it by revealing how it all pans out, but it's a thrilling conclusion to a gripping read. Another reviewer used the word 'intense', and quite right too.

If you're looking for something different to tickle your crime tastebuds, and have been drawn in, as I was, by the cover, don't hesitate to give this one a read. Excellent.

4 out of 5 stars

Gripping February 3, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

An excellent book. The balance was right - we got into the background of some of the characters and a couple of sub-plots around the police characters. But never too much to detract from the main plot which moved along at a well judged pace. The plot was meticulously developed, gruesome in its detail in places, chilling in its topicality (I'd think twice before gaming on-line now!) And a wonderful crescendo towards the end - I found the pages turning themselves feverishly as we moved towards the tense conclusion.

5 out of 5 stars

Grave Doubts October 25, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

I have to agree with the first persons review on this book I have hundreds of books but didn't know what I wanted to read I'd had this book for a few weeks as from the synopsis on the inside it sounded good. I sat down one evening after trying to get into other books but nothing was holding my attention until I picked up this book and that was it I was up all night a couple of nights engrossed in the plots it's one of the best crime writer books that I have read in a long time and even though parts of it were quite gruesome you were hooked and surprisingly very minimal amount of bad language used I can't wait until her next book now. The characters in this were very realistic and totally believable. Now I have to decide which book to read next.

5 out of 5 stars

Not for the timid October 13, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Gruesome and shocking and terrifying, but at the same time beautifully written, "Grave Doubts" really is a thriller. Elizabeth Corley's earlier books were good, but her latest has an edge which takes her writing to new peaks. It really is a quite exceptionally good book.

4 out of 5 stars

Complexity coolly handled October 4, 2006
10 out of 11 found this review helpful

This book kept me awake and reading long after my usual bedtime! Although it's more violent than the thrillers that I usually read (old-fashioned whodunnits tend to be my usual style), I was hugely impressed by Corley's ability to maintain a number of parallel and interwoven plots, each seeming to carry equal weight and psychological consistency.

Her control over the complex plots was spot on, light-handed enough not to belabour points, but sure enough that there were no loose ends. Her ability to create distinctive characters in the space of a couple of pages, only to sacrifice them in turn to the serial killer, was very unsettling for the reader who had learned so quickly to identify with them.

The scene where the killer has the heroine trapped in the eaves of the old farmhouse had me gasping with suspense, and I was delighted with the ending where she is in control of the slow kiss and fade-out, rather than being a rescued damsel in distress.