I really don’t understand how this could possibly be longlisted for ‘The Man Booker prize’, with so much praise from various other literary sources and reviewers to boot. It is 483 pages long and not much seems to happen from start to finish. It held my interest in so much that I thought there was going to be some twists and turns towards the end, there weren’t.

What is the devastating effect on your life when, through no fault of your own, you lose everything — home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, money, credit cards, mobile phone — and you can never get them back? This is what happens to a young man called Adam Kindred...

The pulse-quickening new thriller from master of suspense Michael Connelly sees Harry Bosch plunged into the dangerous world of international terrorism. When a physicist is murdered in LA it seems the killer has no fear of publicity, leaving the body on The Mulholland overlook, a site with a stunning view over the city...