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Title	:	Denial
Author	:	Peter James
Book Format	:	Unknown Binding
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 498 pages
Published	:	November 1st 1999 by Not Avail (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Mystery. Crime. Thriller. Horror. Fiction

Denial Unknown Binding | Pages: 498 pages

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This is a fast moving thriller of a read that does keep your interest through to the end. Gloria Lamark is an actress who takes her own life at the start of the read, but whose presence really does dominate the book which is the story of her son Thomas’s search for revenge against all the people who he thinks has betrayed her in the past. Thomas himself is a wonderful villain, deliciously creepy and weird throughout.

The chapters are short sharp and punchy. There is a lot of graphic torture based violence which is very gory at times – think Silence of the Lambs crossed with Psycho and you have a good idea of what you will be getting into with this one.

The writing is OK for the most part, although I was surprised about the number of missing words and in particular the fact that the name of Glen’s wife changed from Grace to Ari and back again. Gloria herself is described as being 59 at the start of the book but we are later told she was 69. I don’t really expect errors like that from an author and publishing house of this stature, especially in a book that was first written pre-e book days when I think editorial standards were definitely higher.

There is one thing that I really did not like about this book and that is the way he portrays the relationship between Thomas and his mother. He brilliantly manages to convey the exact nature of the relationship at the start of the book in just one sentence. Thomas is taking his mother breakfast in bed dressed in his dressing gown and just by telling me that Gloria liked him to be naked under the dressing gown tells me everything I need to know about the relationship. What I don’t need is further graphic scenes of what is in fact child abuse but told in quite a salacious way, particularly the bathtub scene which really left a sour taste in my mouth. It was unnecessary and overshadowed the rest of the read for me.

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Original Title:	Denial
ISBN:	0752826883 (ISBN13: 9780752826882)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.99 From 806 Users | 65 Reviews

Appraise Containing Books Denial

I read this on holiday over a few days and I loved this book. This wasn't the normal Roy Grace series story I was used to (I have read all 13 books) - as it was prior to the time with DI Grace. I was skeptical at first, as it was concentrating on DC Glen Branson. I particularly liked Branson though, in the DI Grace series, as he is a cool film-buff, hulking black man, and so I devoured the book eagerly to find out who he developed from. The best thing about this book isn't the investigation of

Defination of a Thriller..........Denial!

A brilliant early piece from Peter James; a piece that introduces us to Glenn Branson who is a regular feature in the Roy Grace series. Tense throughout with lashings of violence (which is something I really do enjoy in books, call me morbid maybe)

Slow start, but from around 100 pages in got very hard to put down 😀



Peter James has now offically taken James Herbert's place as my favourite British writer of horror/thriller fiction. As described, this book was a taught, engaging, gruesomely disturbing story about grief and anger, and in the villain's case, revenge. Having only read one other of his books before - this being 'Alchemist' - I already had high expectations for Peter James, and while 'Alchemist' took about 100 pages before anything really got going, 'Denial' begins straight away on a high note,

This book started off as a real page turner and ended with a clever twist. Unfortunately part of the story was far fetched and irritating and yet it coukd have been so good. Thomas Lamark, son of movie star Gloria has been dominated by his mother since childhood. He finds his mother dead and goes on a killing spree, targeting those he holds responsible plus a few additional casualties. Thomas and his mother had an incestuous relationship- this was very cleverly done by James. What I didnt like