Books by Tony Parsons
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review 1: I think I'm in love with a new-to-me writer--Tony Parsons. The MURDER MAN (also known as THE MURDER BAG) is his first novel in the Max Wolfe series. I love the writing and I love the character of Max, who is a tenacious detective but also a devoted single father The scenes with ...
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review 1: Living in Phuket I was interested to read this novel, which is based in Phuket at the time of the 2004 tsunami. Besides the many instances of him getting the culture, the geography and the 'scene' completely wrong, it was overall poorly written. The characters were flat, the plot...
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review 1: I wanted to enjoy this book. I wanted to have that familiar feeling of not being able to go to sleep because I did not want to finish this book but that feeling did not come. It was a good story, nicely written and with a clever twist at the end but that is the extent of the co...
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review 1: A book of several parts I think...the first when we learn what Tom and tess are running from, what they've got themselves into, and learn about the nature of the relationships of the four family members.And then, surprisingly to me, the tsunami hit,I want expecting that, and for ...
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review 1: Murder Bag by Tony Parsons was for me a conundrum. On the one hand there was great prose and characterisation, but this was offset by tedious references to dogs and boxing. I feel the crime genre is all about plot and pace and this book was, for me, a little lacking in both. It w...
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review 1: Having really enjoyed Man and Boy and Man and Wife, I expected a lot from this third part to the Harry Silver trilogy. And as a page-turner, it delivered; I read it in about three sittings.Yet, at the same time, I can't help feeling slightly disappointed. The old fire seems to ha...
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review 1: The slightly bewildered single dad was present, but there were very few other characteritics from Tony Parsons other works, which I had really enjoyed, This time our hero is a recently promoted to the murder squad, having followed his instincts to avert a terrorist attack, disob...
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review 1: So, 10 years+ on from Man and Boy.....and whilst I have read other Tony Parsons books in the meantime, this reminds me of why I enjoyed him first time around. Modern, witty, but above all else he gets inside men and how they tick, not afraid to explore the emotional side. Simi...