This is a cracking little read from Harlan Coben.

If you like fast-paced crime fiction then this will definately tickle your fancy and it has a nifty little twist at the end of the tale!

The story line is good and reads a little something like this:

8 years ago David Beck and his wife were having a romantic getaway at a cabin in the woods when they were brutally assaulted. His wife’s body was discovered a few days after the assault, battered beyond recognition.

Fast forward 8 years and Beck is still battling to get on with his life and it isn’t helped when he receives a link to a street-cam which mysteriously features an image of his presumed dead wife. Suddenly Becks’ life is turned upside down as he begins to investigate the case again. However the deeper he digs the more people wind up dead or threatened.

The book rollicks along at a great pace and I’d finished reading it inside of two days – a real page turner (if you can use that term when you are reading something on the Kindle?)

Title: Tell no one

Author: Harlan Coben

ISBN: 978-0-440-24590-2

This is a cracking little read and I rated it a 4 out of 5 while my wife threw in her 2c and rated it 3 and a half.

You can buy the book online at Loot for R81 as a paperback.  It is definately worth it!

And the popular video games are…. listed below.

One really interesting title which I saw there was Outrun 2006 which was listed for R27.95 under Kalahari. Geez

dunno if any of you remember the ORIGINAL Outrun MANY years ago… wow that takes me back to my youth.
 

Take2.co.za
1.  Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Limited Edition – PC
2.  S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat PC
3.  Final Fantasy XIII PS3 
4.  Heavy Rain – PS3
5.  Street Fighter – PS3
6.  Assassin’s Creed II – PC
7.  Street Fighter IV Collector’s Edition PS3 
8.  Street Fighter IV Collector’s Edition – Xbox360 
9.  THQ Ultimate Box Set (9 Game Pack) PC
Titan Quest, TQ:Immortal Throne, Company Of Heroes, COH: Opposing Fronts, STALKER.: Shadow of Chernoby, Frontlines:Fuel of War, Supreme Commander, SC: Forged Alliance, Warhammer: 40K: Dawn of War – Dark Crusade  10.  World of Warcraft 60 Day Pre-paid Game Card European Server Version (PC) 

Kalahari.Net
1. Final Fantasy XIII – PS3
2. God of War 3 Ultimate Edition – PS3
3. God of War 3 – PS3
4. Battlefield Bad Company 2 – Limited Edition – PC
5. Battlefield Bad Company 2 Limited Edition – PS3
6. Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast – PC
7. Street Fighter IV – PC
8. Need for Speed Undercover – PC
9. Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight – PC
10. Virtua Tennis 2009 – Nintendo Wii

Amazon.com
1. God of War III – PS3
2. Pokemon SoulSilver Version Software Only – Nintendo DS
3. Pokemon HeartGold Version Software Only – Nintendo DS
4. Final Fantasy XIII – PS3
5. Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City – Xbox360
6. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board – Nintendo Wii
7. Just Dance – Nintendo Wii
8. New Super Mario Bros – Nintendo Wii
9. Final Fantasy XIII – Xbox360
10. Wii Sports Resort – Nintendo Wii

Is it just me or are the Americans obsessed with food and politics titles?!

Sunday is here and once again we take a look at what books are proving popular with the various online retailers.

It looks like LJ Smith is still dominating the local scene and I am still very tempted to get my hands on that Flash Forward book!

Take2.co.za
1.  Vampire Diaries, Vol. 1, Books 1 & 2 – Smith, L. J.
2.  Vampire Diaries, Vol. 2, Books 3 & 4 – Smith, L. J.
3.  Pleasure of a Dark Prince – Cole, Kresley
4.  The Return: Nightfall – Smith, L. J.
5.  Black Jack – Leigh, Lora
6.  The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Larsson, Stieg
7.  Girl Who Played with Fire – Larsson, Stieg
8.  Hot Rocks – Roberts, Nora
9.  Born to Be Wild – Warren, Christine
10.  Flash Forward  – Sawyer, Robert J.

Kalahari.Net
1. The Return: Nightfall – LJ Smith
2. Vampire Diaries: Bks. 3 & 4 – LJ Smith
3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson
4. Vampire Diaries: v. 1 & 2 – LJ Smith
5. The Struggle: Bks. 1 & 2 – LJ Smith
6. The Gabriel Method: The Revolutionary Diet-Free Way to Totally Transform Your Body – Jon Gabriel
7. The Metabolism Miracle: 3 Easy Steps to Regain Control of Your Weight…Permanently – Dianne Kress
8. Captain in the Cauldron – Mike Greenaway
9. Pleisters Vir Die Siel: Soos Uitgesaai in Brekfis Met Derrich Op RSG – Riekert Botha
10. Introduction to business management – J. Strydom; G. du Toit; B Erasmus

Amazon.com
1. Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual – Michael Pollan
2. The Five Thousand Year Leap: 30 Year Anniversary Edition with Glenn Beck Foreword – W. Cleon Skousen
3. A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror – Larry Schweikart
4. World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony – Will Tuttle
5. Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted – Daniel G. Amen
6. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
7. The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet – Alicia Silverstone
8. Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight – Karl Rove
9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
10. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang – Chelsea Handler

After the rather dreary Faye Kellerman I wrapped up last week, it is nice to be back to a book that’s got a bit of life and pace to it.

I downloaded: “Tell no one” from Harlan Coben and it is off to a rollicking start - REALLY enjoying it. Cracking pace, cracking story, lots of fun.

The write-up for the book reads:

For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.
Everyone tells him it’s time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible–that somewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive.
Beck has been warned to tell no one. And he doesn’t. Instead, he runs from the people he trusts the most, plunging headlong into a search for the shadowy figure whose messages hold out a desperate hope.
But already Beck is being hunted down. He’s headed straight into the heart of a dark and deadly secret–and someone intends to stop him before he gets there.  

You can buy the book online from Loot for R81, well worth it!

Anybody else got any interesting reads for this week?  

I just wrapped up reading this latest offering from Faye Kellerman and it very rarely takes me a week to wrap up a fiction novel which I guess says something about how gripping the story was.

The intro was slow, but it did pick up a bit of pace in the middle of the story and wrapped up nicely enough.

The book was again focuses on Peter Decker and his police crew who have been called to the scene of a masasacre at a ranch owned by a rich property developer. What initially looks like a robbery gone wrong, quickly unwinds into a potential family feud which appears to involve a violent local gang.

The pace is measured and there were no real “twists” in the story and couldn’t say it grabbed me.

Title: Blindmans Bluff

Author: Faye Kellerman

ISBN:  978-0-00-734646-2

Rated the book an uninspiring 3 out of 5.

You can buy this book online from Loot for R96 in paperback.

And here is the list of the bestselling video games. It looks like Battlefield Bad Company, God of War and Street Fighter IV are all the rage this week!

Kalahari.Net
1. Battlefield Bad Company 2 – Limited Edition – PC
2. Final Fantasy XIII – PS3
3. God of War 3 – PS3
4. God of War 3 Ultimate Edition – PS3
5. Battlefield Bad Company 2 Limited Edition – Xbox360
6. Battlefield Bad Company 2 Limited Edition – PS3
7. Street Fighter IV – PS3
8. Assassin’s Creed 2 – PC
9. Virtua Tennis 2009 – Nintendo Wii
10. Rome Total War: Barbarian Invasion – PC

Take2
1. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Limited Edition (PC DVD-ROM) -
2.  S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (PC DVD-ROM) 
3.  Heavy Rain (PS3)
4.  Street Fighter IV (PS3) 
5.  Final Fantasy XIII (PS3) 
6.  Assassin’s Creed II (PC DVD-ROM)
7.  THQ Ultimate Box Set (9 Game Pack) (PC DVD-ROM)
Titan Quest, TQ:Immortal Throne, Company Of Heroes, COH: Opposing Fronts, STALKER.: Shadow of Chernoby, Frontlines:Fuel of War, Supreme Commander, SC: Forged Alliance, Warhammer: 40K: Dawn of War – Dark Crusade 
8.  World of Warcraft 60 Day Pre-paid Game Card European Server Version (PC)
9.  Street Fighter IV Collector’s Edition (PS3) 
10.  Street Fighter IV Collector’s Edition (Xbox 360) 

Amazon.com
1. God of War III – PS3
2. Final Fantasy XIII – PS3
3. Final Fantasy XIII – Xbox360
4. Mass Effect 2 – Xbox360
5. Just Dance – Nintendo Wii
6. Pokemon SoulSilver Version Software Only – Nintendo DS
7. Xbox 360 12 Month Live Gold Card – Xbox360
8. Heavy Rain – PS3
9. Nintendo Wii – Nintendo Wii
10. New Super Mario Bros – Nintendo Wii

We have not done a bestsellers list in a while so let’s take a look what books are proving popular with the online retailers and see if there are any inspirational purchases in there.

It looks like the Kalahari.net and Take2 listings are heavily skewed toward the various LJ Smith books and I am very keen to get my hands on the Flash Forward book… I’m just worried it might ruin the TV series for me! Here is the list:

Kalahari.Net
1. Vampire Diaries: Bks. 3 & 4 – LJ Smith
2. The Struggle: Bks. 1 & 2 – LJ Smith
3. Screw It, Let’s Do It: Lessons in Life – Richard Branson
4. Vampire Diaries: v. 1 & 2 – LJ Smith
5. The Return: Nightfall – LJ Smith
6. Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
7. The Metabolism Miracle: 3 Easy Steps to Regain Control of Your Weight…Permanently – Dianne Kress
8. SAICA Handbook 2009/2010 – SAICA
9. Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer
10. The Reunion: v. 3 & 4 – LJ Smith.

Take2
1.  Vampire Diaries, Vol. 1, Books 1 & 2 – Smith, L. J.
2.  Vampire Diaries, Vol. 2, Books 3 & 4 – Smith, L. J.
3.  Pleasure of a Dark Prince – Cole, Kresley
4.  The Return: Nightfall – Smith, L. J.
5.  Girl Who Played with Fire – Larsson, Stieg
6.  Black Jack – Leigh, Lora
7.  Born to Be Wild – Warren, Christine
8.  The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Larsson, Stieg
9.  Hot Rocks – Roberts, Nora
10.  Flash Forward – Sawyer, Robert J.

Amazon.com
1. Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight  – Karl Rove
2. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
3. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang – Chelsea Handler
4. Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted – Daniel G. Amen
5. Final Fantasy XIII: The Complete Official Guide – Piggyback
6. Rework – Jason Fried
7. Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College – Doug Lemov
8. Hypothyroidism Type 2: The Epidemic – Mark Starr
9. American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us – Jesse Ventura
10. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson

So what is the Bundublog.com community reading this weekend?

My wife downloaded the latest Faye Kellerman book: “Blindmans Bluff” to the Kindle so I have just started on that. A little bit of a slow start in the book but then I am not the biggest Faye Kellerman fan so that might just be me.

Here’s the synopsis for the book:

Lazarus Guy Kaffey thought his wealth could acquire anything- including the best security money can buy. When his family are gunned to death on their vast Butterfly Ranch estate, it’s clear that he was tragically wrong. Lieutenant Peter Decker of the LAPD is given the task of piecing together what happened. From the start, he suspects an inside job and that the answer lies with Kaffey’s fortune. The daunting scale of Kaffey’s business empire produces no shortage of suspects: from members of his bodyguard, to business partners, rival tycoons, even family members. But as LA’s ferocious street gangs hire themselves out to unknown paymasters in a cycle of revenge and death, Decker’s own family is threatened. And if a billionaire like Kaffey can’t protect his own, what hope does Decker have?

You can buy the book online from retailer Loot for R252.

Post your reads and recommendations for this weekend below.

I was a little bit wary about reading a CSI book. I’ve always enjoyed CSI Las Vegas and the Gill Grissom character but was worried that a book would disappoint me.

Fortunately my concern was mis-placed and I really enjoyed reading CSI: The Killing Jar from Don Cortez.

Below is the write-up attached to the book:  

A teenager is found dead in his motel room, the cause of death: millipede poison…Now crime scene investigator Gil Grissom must aid CSI’s Nick Stokes and Riley Adams against a serial killer whose knowledge of entomology rivals his own — a brutal murderer who is not only using insects as the tools of destruction, but actually modeling the attacks after their behavior…. In the meantime, CSIs Catherine Willows and Greg Sanders must investigate a bizarre death, where the victim had gotten mixed up with two very different groups of people — one involved in using and dealing crystal meth, the other an avant-garde group of artists — a collision of subcultures where everyone is a suspect and nothing is as it seems…. 

The book made for a really good read and at no stage did you feel like it was going to under-deliver compared to a CSI episode. In fact, the only difference was that you got a bit more time for character development – it was a goodie.

Title: CSI: The Killing Jar

Author: Don Cortez

ISBN: 978-1439153703

You can buy the book online at Loot for R65.

A really enjoyable read – rated it 3 and a half out of 5.

Here are the bestsellers for the week:

Amazon.com
1. Heavy Rain – PS3
2. Final Fantasy XIII – PS3
3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – Xbox360
4. Just Dance – Nintendo Wii
5. New Super Mario Bros – Nintendo Wii
6. Dante’s Inferno Divine Edition – PS3
7. Endless Ocean: Blue World – Nintendo Wii
8. God of War III – PS3
9. Wii Sports Resort – Nintendo Wii
10. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Limited Edition – Xbox360

Take2
1.  Mass Effect 2 – PC 
2.  S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat – PC 
3.  Mass Effect 2 Collector’s Edition PC 
4.  Mass Effect 2 – Xbox 360 
5.  The Sims 3: High-End Loft Stuff – PC
6.  Empire Earth 2 Gold Collection (PC) 
7.  Comfy – Easy PC Keyboard (includes First Steps CD in the Package) 
8.  Heavy Rain – PS3 
9.  Super Hits: Civilization IV Complete Collection – PC 
10.  Star Trek Online Gold Edition – PC 

Kalahari.Net
1. Shrek2 – PC
2. Battlefield Bad Company 2 Limited Edition – PC
3. Leisure Suit Larry Classics Collection – PC
4. Heavy Rain Special Edition – PS3
5. God of War 3 Ultimate Edition – PS3
6. Shark Tale – PC
7. Clifford Thinking Adventures – PC
8. New Super Mario Bros – Nintendo Wii
9. The Gabriel Method: The Revolutionary Diet-Free Way to Totally Transform Your Body – Jon Gabriel
10. Mass Effect 2 – Xbox 360