Category: Book reviews
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Sword of Bone by Anthony Rhodes – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In May 2021, IWM will publish two more novels in their Wartime Classics Series which was launched in September 2019 to great acclaim, bringing the total number of novels in the series to ten. Each has been brought back into print to enable a new generation of readers to hear stories of those…
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The Hunting Season by Tom Benjamin – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB It’s truffle season and in the hills around Bologna the hunt is on for the legendary Boscuri White, the golden nugget of Italian gastronomy. But when an American truffle ‘supertaster’ goes missing, English detective Daniel Leicester discovers not all truffles are created equal. Did the missing supertaster bite off more than he could…
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Pathfinders by Cecil Lewis – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUMS TO PUBLISH ANOTHER NOVEL IN THEIR WARTIME CLASSICS SERIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE FAMOUS MEMOIR SAGITTARIUS RISING In May 2021, IWM will publish two more novels in their Wartime Classics series which was launched in September 2019 to great acclaim, bringing the total novels in the series to ten.…
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The Crazy Season by Jim Ody – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Joel Baxter is infamous for solving weird and bizarre cases that others avoid. So, when he receives an email from a teenage boy Tim saying his town is cursed, he cannot turn it down. “…I will more than likely be dead when you read this. There is nothing I can do about it.…
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The Assistant by Kjell Ola Dahl – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The award-winning Godfather of Nordic Noir returns with a fascinating and richly authentic portrait of Oslo’s interwar years, featuring Nazis operating secretly on Norwegian soil and militant socialists readying workers for war… Oslo, 1938. War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitler’s Germany has occupied Austria and is threatening Czechoslovakia;…
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The Bone Code by Kathy Reichs – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Number One bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth edge-of-your seat thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. A storm has hit South Carolina, dredging up crimes of the past. En route to Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan receives a call from the…
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Mirrorland by C L Johnstone – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB With the startling twists of Gone Girl and the haunting emotional power of Room, Mirrorland is a thrilling work of psychological suspense about twin sisters, the man they both love, and the dark childhood they can’t leave behind. Cat lives in Los Angeles, far away from 36 Westeryk Road, the imposing gothic house…
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Vanished by James Delargy – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB From the groundbreaking author of 55 comes an extraordinary new thriller… The Kane family, Lorcan, Naiyana and their young son, are desperate to move their young family far away from the hustle and bustle of modern city life in Perth. The abandoned town of Kallayee, an abandoned mining town in the Great Victoria…
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The Black Fox by Gordon Bickerstaff – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Incredible conspiracy. Intricate espionage. Spy story. Zoe Tampsin is resourceful, smart and Special Forces-trained, but she has been given an impossible mission. She has to protect scientist, Gavin Shawlens, from assassination by the CIA, and discover the secret trapped in Gavin’s mind that the CIA want destroyed. As the pressure to find Shawlens…
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Facets Of Death by Michael Stanley – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A dark and sophisticated thriller set in the heart of Botswana, introducing Michael Stanley’s beloved Detective Kubu. Recruited straight from university to Botswana’s CID, David ‘Kubu’ Bengu has raised his colleagues’ suspicions with his meteoric rise within the department, and he has a lot to prove. When the richest diamond mine in the…
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Missing Pieces by Tim Weaver – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Rebekah Murphy knows too much. . . She knows she’s alone on an abandoned island with a killer on her trail. She knows that to get home to her children, she must survive long enough to understand why this is happening. She knows someone tried to kill her for a secret. What she…
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Look What You Made Me Do by Nikki Smith – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Two people can keep a secret . . . if one of them is dead. Sisters Jo and Caroline are used to hiding things from each other. They’ve never been close – taking it in turns to feel on the outside of their family unit, playing an endless game of favourites. Jo envies…
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The Best Things by Mel Giedroyc – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Warm, funny, life-affirming and true, The Best Things is the joyous debut novel from much-loved comedian, writer, actor and presenter Mel Giedroyc. It’s the story of a family who lose everything, only to find themselves, and each other, along the way. Sally and Frank Parker have it all. Then one day, because of…
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The Source by Sarah Sultoon – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB 1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak……
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The April Dead by Alan Parks – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB NO ONE WILL FORGET . . . In a grimy flat in Glasgow, a homemade bomb explodes, leaving few remains to identify its maker. Detective Harry McCoy knows in his gut that there’ll be more to follow. The hunt for a missing sailor from the local US naval base leads him to the…
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Scare Me To Death by CJ Carver – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A homemade bomb exploded mid-air, killing 214 people on board. Thirteen people survived. Sixteen years later one of the survivors is found brutally bludgeoned to death. It looks like a crime of passion but DC Lucy Davies knows something is wrong. They were trying to find the bombers. Lucy’s search for the killer…
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Birdsong in a Time of Silence by Steven Lovatt – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature. “At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly: instead, like reluctantly retired officers, they’re always ‘on manoeuvres’, and it’s easy to see from their constant agitation that for them every flower bed is a bunker, every shed a…
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Nighthawking by Russ Thomas – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB After the gut-punch ending of Firewatching, DS Adam Tyler returns to another shocking cold case… A body has been discovered in Sheffield’s beautiful Botanical Gardens. A young woman, dead from a stab wound, buried in a quiet corner. Police quickly determine that the body has been there for months, and would have gone…
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Hunt by Leona Deakin – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Foreign Secretary is being held under the Terrorism Act. He will answer the police’s questions on one condition – they let him speak to Dr Augusta Bloom. He asks Bloom to track down his niece, Scarlett, who hasn’t spoken to her family for ten years. The last they heard, Scarlett was getting…
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