Really enjoyed this novel. Lots of twists and turns in the plot, keeps the pages turning wanting to find out who did what, why and where. Really well written and expertly tied up at the end.

Perfect Summer Holiday Read

ebook near impossible to read with publisher's defaults, and the options available to adjust it to did not help much. Slogged to 100 pages almost then abandoned it with a splitting headache...

Two years later and another version from the library was readable this time. An interesting if hopefully far-fetched story of terrorism from the viewpoint of a journalist. It was a good read but nothing spectacular.

I had high hopes for the next Simon Mayo book. I loved Mad Blood Stirring, and my son really enjoyed the Itch books.

Unfortunately, this one didn't gel with me. I'm not normally a 'crime' kind of person, but it being Simon, I thought I'd try it. I didn't like the characters much, and just found them a little clichéd. The subject matter of terrorism did little to pique my interest, the 'plight' of journalists even less so.

The writing style was good, as I would have expected, but the plot was a little hackneyed, and there was one moment (I'll just say lemons) that totally broke the book for me - I just couldn't suspend my disbelief for that part.

Disappointing, but perhaps more because of my dislike of the content than a full reflection on Mr Mayo's abilities as an author.

As fast paced thriller focusing on two terror attacks in the UK. Difficult to review without spoilers but I really enjoyed the twists and turns of this. The lead characters are well written and I especially enjoyed Hari's side of the story.

KNIFE EDGE is a thriller about terrorism with a breathless opening which rivals anything I have read in the genre as, in 29 minutes one morning in May, a series of attacks leaves 7 London commuters dead. In the Canary Wharf offices of the IPS news agency, Famie Madden and her fellow journalists, begin to realise that the killings have been coordinated and the victims are colleagues in the agency's Investigation team.

Simon Mayo, a radio and TV presenter, who presents my favourite film review show on BBC Radio 5, is a fine writer. The early chapters detailing the killings and their immediate aftermath are tense and claustrophobic, and Mayo's descriptions of an early morning London into which panic and fear erupt, are intensely vivid and convincing. The scenes following this are less riveting as the story alternates between Famie's attempt to protect herself and her family, while also attempting to identify those responsible for her colleagues' deaths, and scenes set in the terrorist cell. Here the story slows and the constant references to the terrorists as 'The Leader', 'The Woman' and "The Student' are a little clumsy. The book does lift again with a climactic confrontation with the terrorists which, while not reaching the heights of the initial chapters and being, perhaps, a little formulaic, does bring the novel to a satisfying conclusion.

I like Simon Mayo style - clear plot lines, well written, keeps interest up.

Loved this book! One morning on the daily commute, a team of investigative journalists are murdered. Their colleagues, including Famie try to get to the bottom of what they were investigating.
Can't recommend this book enough.

Was going to give this book 4 stars - it does nothing new or particularly original but on reflection what it does do is do a traditional thriller with largely believable characters and plots really, really well. I thoroughly enjoyed a very good, British based and therefore fairly low key terror thriller.