There’s only one downside to visiting St Petersburg. You quickly realise you’ll have to return again and again if you want to see everything. I’ve visited the Russian city six times over the past 30 years and still feel I’ve only scraped the surface. The Winter Palace is second only to Versailles in architecture and … Read more
Scott Derrickson boards new thriller Bermuda with Chris Evans set to star… two months after backing out of Doctor Strange sequel By Brian Gallagher For Dailymail.com Published: 07:39 GMT, 5 March 2020 | Updated: 07:39 GMT, 5 March 2020 Just two months after backing out of Marvel’s Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, director … Read more
The Secret Guests B W Black Viking £8.99 Rating: Over the past few years, an increasing number of novels have included real-life members of the Royal Family as characters. Sue Townsend’s comic novel The Queen And I is set in a republican Britain, reducing Queen Elizabeth to living in a two-bedroom semi-detached, under the supervision … Read more
WHAT BOOK would thriller writer Clare Mackintosh take to a desert island? Clare Mackintosh is currently reading The Giver Of Stars by JoJo Moyes She would take Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson to a desert island British thriller writer revealed Patricia Highsmith has left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 13 February 2020 … Read more
Flesh And Blood Monday-Thursday, ITV Rating: Murder 24/7 Monday-Wednesday, BBC2 Rating: The latest domestic thriller is Flesh And Blood, and already it’s getting mixed up in my head with Liar, Cheat, Trust Me, Trauma, Gold Digger, etc. Their formats are so similar – whom should we trust? – that I’m beginning to wonder if they … Read more
Did a 1981 Dean Koontz thriller predict the coronavirus outbreak? Readers share extracts from novel which chillingly refers to deadly viral infection named after Wuhan Koontz novel The Eyes Of Darkness describes a killer virus named ‘Wuhan-400’ The fictional virus was developed as a bioweapon in Wuhan research lab Coronavirus first emerged from the same … Read more