THE DETONATORS: A MATT HELM NOVEL BY DONALD HAMILTON

The Detonators: A Matt Helm Novel by Donald Hamilton

Matt Helm's history with women isn't as good as he'd hoped. They give him a hard time when he's dating them, and now Amy Bartlett is proving too prim and proper for their own good after her father is about to spend time in jail for drugs offences - she wants to set him free, but Matt wants the whole story and doesn't buy the fact she says she's prim - she must have some vices, surely.

STEAMPUNK REVIEW: THE IMMORALITY ENGINE BY GEORGE MANN

 
The Immorality Engine by George Mann

Sir Maurice Newbury is Queen Victoria's secret weapon in the fight against crime on the foggy streets of London. While in the Affinity Bridge, Newbury and Hobbes investigated a crashed airship, in The Osiris Ritual a mummy is revealed to possibly have been murdered, making others think of it as a curse and now this is hailed as being their "hardest and darkest investigation to date."

JOYLAND ILLUSTRATED EDITION BY STEPHEN KING

 
Joyland Illustrated Edition
Stephen King
Publisher: Titan Books
Pages: 304 
ISBN: 9781783295326
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes

Devin "Dev"Jones is a college student with ambitions to get the girl, a decent job and a place to stay, but back in 1973, his life hadn't gone to plan. Dev believes that Wendy Keegan, his love interest had never wanted to be involved with him sexually, keeping him hanging on, then announced she was leaving for another job in Boston. That is what made Dev stand back and think he might never get to make-out with the girl he loved. When Wendy leaves, Dev also looks for a job and one lands right in his lap as though it was meant to, straight out of a Carolina Living magazine which advertised Joyland, an old American theme park.

THRILLER REVIEW: THE PHOENIX YEAR BY DAVID L. BLOND

 
The Phoenix Year 
David L. Blond
Publisher: Wattle Publishing
Published: Out Now!
Pages: 332 
Review by : Sandra Scholes

Well versed in the use of predicting the data for global economic models, Blond started his career working for the United Nations in Geneva in the 70s and currently works as a private economic consultant where he analyses economic data. It is likely his job rubbed off on him as he has created a novel, though fiction is build as a could have happened scenario where a bunch of billionaires can change the world if they put their minds to  it. "...from out of the fire, would rise a new order, like the legend of the phoenix. There would emerge a new world, a new super economy..."