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Title: Graveland

Author: Alan Glynn

Narrator: John Cormack

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-14

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

A Wall Street investment banker is shot dead while jogging in Central Park. Then one of the savviest hedge-fund managers in the city is gunned down outside an Upper West Side restaurant. Are these killings part of a coordinated terrorist attack, or just coincidence?

Investigative journalist Ellen Dorsey has a hunch that its neither. When an attempt is made on the life of another CEO, the story blows wide open ... The search for Lizzie takes Frank and Ellen from a quiet campus to the blazing spotlight of a national media storm and into the devastating crucible of a personal and a public tragedy.

Critic Reviews:

"Gripping and cleverly constructed thriller ... eerily prescient" (Belfast Telegraph)

Members Reviews:

Tense, exciting and fast-moving thriller exploring how terrorism & technology influence the world we live in!

The third and possibly final part of the Bloodland, Winterland and Graveland trilogy see's Glynn shift his gaze away from Ireland towards the tumultuous world of high finance in New York. Other reviews have noted the prescience of Glynn in his timely exploration of the events that unfold when disenchanted citizens rebel against the people they deem to be the architects of the current global financial crisis.

I consumed this brilliant piece of thrilling action over just 5 nights of non-stop reading. It rivals a TV box set for addictive qualities as you always want to read one more chapter.

As with the previous installments in the trilogy, the narrative moves seamlessly between characters including reporter Ellen Dorsey, who fans will remember from her brief cameo in Bloodland, Frank Bishop a washed up by-product of recession hit America, and the legendary James Vaughan, the powerful and mysterious CEO of Oberon Capital Group.

With Ireland no longer the focus of Glynn's gaze, is it a signal economic recovery in his native land or simply a result of the authors new surroundings in New York influencing his writing?

In Vaughan, Glynn has crafted and honed one of the most intriguing and fascinating characters to grace the pages of a thriller. The brilliance of Vaughan lies in the subtle hints of malevolence and corruption rather than outright, in your face examples of evil deeds. The snippets from the House of Vaughan novel will surely leave fans wishing for the House of Vaughan to become a novel in its own right.. Vaughan is the highlight of Graveland as Glynn gives him room to flourish.

Without revealing too much, the role of Lizzie and subsequently the actions of her father Frank happened without significant explanation or even examination of what really drove them to act. Unusually for Glynn's books, this part of the novel felt loose and rushed as he sought to wrap up events.

In light of recent events in Boston, perhaps in hindsight these characters should have been given more time to reveal the reasons for their actions with only passing mention afforded to the two main characters who sparked off the novels events with a series of killings on the streets of New York.

Fans of Glynn's work will really enjoy Graveland and his style remains as fascinating and fluid as ever. The Irishman is a craftsman of the tension based thriller and I look forward to what follows the trilogy.