London Underground (The Tunnel) (Volume 2) by Mark Williams.

This novella is about Jonathan who goes to a sex club called the London Underground, which has a dungeon where some BDSM takes place.

As far as erotic literature goes, this is a POOR tale. A man pays for sex, takes some drugs and has a little fun. This tale is long winded as Jonathan reflects about his experiences and side tracks across the Atlantic to his partner Nancy. There is little focus to this story and the sex is rather brief. Reading this story was quite a bore and I developed no empathy for Jonathan. My main feeling was “so what?” as this eBook did not enlighten, entertain or please me. London Underground was a disappointment for me and I took nothing away from this book. I found this to be a DULL read and shall only vote it 2 stars as you will get more thrills from looking at a clothing catalogue.

London Underground is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook and was written in 2014.

Kindle Buffet: Find and download the best free books, magazines and newspapers for your Kindle, iPhone, iPad or Android by Steve Weber.

This guide tells you how to get shed loads of free content for your Kindle OR any other device that can display Kindle files using an app or program.  Steve Weber has written this guide because one of the websites that alerts readers to free Kindle eBooks is his own and is called Kindle Buffet.

Although this guide is a plug for his website, Steve does write frankly about what content for the Kindle is available free. Once downloaded, that content remains free for your lifetime. He not only tells you about his own website for free Kindle eBooks but also 4 other websites that offer free books. If you are interested in magazines or newspapers, Steve also tells you about 2 websites that will convert and send web content to your Kindle.

This guide is well researched and tells you all you need to know. Since Steve has written this guide, The Cheap - the-cheap.net - and The Kindle Daily Deal - thekindledailydeal.com -  are no longer available but the other 4 rivals to his Kindle Buffet are stilling running.

I found this guide very easy to read and understand. It gives the user the knowledge to use their Kindle in the same way you would use a radio or television. Free content every day for life without a subscription, with enough diversity for everyone. It’s all out there and Steve shows you the 7 places on the web to look. He does an excellent job and all you have to do is choose just what free content rocks your boat. This eBook does just what it’s title claims and I will vote it the top score of 5 stars. Thanks Steve and keep up the good work on your Kindle Buffet website.

Kindle Buffet was written in 2012 and is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook.

unseen by Karin Slaughter.

Follow the usual group of 4 in yet another crime thriller from Karin. We have Amanda Wagner deputy director of the GBI, with detective Will Trent plus partner Faith Mitchell and medical examiner Sara Linton, as they get to the bottom of a cop shooting and more.

This novel is typical of Karin as she tells a good tale with a very involved plot. Little clues are fed in here and there as you read through this story. Yet again it is a shame that Karin goes back and forth in time just like in her last novel in this series called criminal. Although this time it is only a matter of days rather than decades. But these chapters in time do not end cleanly, as for example when Lena Adams goes to investigate a sound behind a panel during her police raid of the shooting gallery. You do not find out what is behind the panel in the next chapter but have to wait a lot later in the book. This is rather annoying and is a test of my patience. An author should please me with their work, not structure their book to irritate the reader.

Apart from these niggles, unseen is a good book which highlights how an extremely involved plot makes crime thrillers such enjoyable best sellers. Karin is clearly in the top league of crime thriller writers and I vote this novel 4 stars.

unseen has 447 pages and was written in 2013

I left this paperback on the front desk in the farm shop. When I returned someone had taken it away for themselves. I had only read the first 170 pages and was very annoyed that someone had taken my book. Because I had read enough and 2 of her novels just before this book, I was able to write a fair review.

criminal by Karin Slaughter.

Evelyn Mitchell, Amanda Wagner, Will Trent, Sara Linton and Faith Mitchell continue on from Karin’s last novel Fallen. All her books are stand alone thrillers and do not have to be read in order but fans will enjoy reading more about her 5 core characters. By reading criminal after Fallen it is like meeting up with the same friends again a week or so later. This is another crime thriller where the police investigate and catch a killer.

Karin is a very talented author and her writing is crisp and packs a punch…

...The needle.

That finely honed piece of surgical steel, that seemingly innocuous device of delivery that ruled every moment of Lucy’s life. She dreamed about shooting up. That first prick of flesh. That pinch as the tip pierced vein. That slow burn as the liquid was injected. That immediate euphoria of the drug entering her system. It was worth everything. Worth every sacrifice. Worth every loss. Worth the things she had to do to get it. Worth the things she all but forgot about the second the drug entered her bloodstream.

Then, suddenly, came the crest of the last hill, the biggest hill, on her roller coaster ride down…

...The bikers sold speed, not heroin. Heroin belonged to the coloreds. Even the Mafia was hands-off. H was a ghetto drug. It was too potent, too addictive, too dangerous for white people. Especially white women.

Which is how Lucy ended up being tricked out by a black man with a tattoo of Jesus on his chest.

The spoon. The flame. The smell of burning rubber. The tourniquet. The filter from a broken cigarette. There was a romantic pageantry to the whole thing, a drawn-out process that made her former affair with the needle seem woefully unsophisticated. Even now, Lucy could feel herself getting excited at the thought of the spoon. She closed her eyes, imagining the bent piece of silver, the way the neck resembled a broken swan. Black swan. Black sheep. Black man’s whore…

I enjoyed reading this book which has a very involved plot, a plot spreading across nearly 40 years. But that is the problem with this book, Karin floats from chapter to chapter between 1975 and the present day. In the 1975 chapters Evelyn and Amanda are on the chase of a killer. In the present day chapters Amanda, Will and Faith are on the chase of a killer. The story builds in both time zones and as a reader you slowly start to learn what is going on but Will and Faith have no knowledge of Evelyn’s and Amanda’s work in 1975. Karin decided to adopt this twin time zone structure for her novel but I found reading it a strain. Chopping and changing through the decades was hard to remember as both investigations developed at a similar pace. You had to remind yourself that Will and Faith did not know what was happening in 1975 and it seemed odd that the reader knows more than the present day detectives. However, everything slots into place by the end and you understand then the dynamics between Amanda and Will. I thought criminal was a good read with some creepy bits that quite surprised me. I will vote criminal 4 stars and NOT 5 stars only because of the chopping and changing between 2 time zones.

Thank you to the passenger who left behind their copy of this paperback on my coach. I did not toss it into the rubbish skip but considered this a bonus to take home with me to enjoy later.

criminal has 510 pages and was written in 2012.