Category: Murder mystery
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The Favour by Laura Vaughan – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When she was thirteen years old, Ada Howell lost not just her father, but the life she felt she was destined to lead. Now, at eighteen, Ada is given a second chance when her wealthy godmother giftsher with an extravagant art history trip to Italy. In the palazzos of Venice, the cathedrals of…
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Fatal Flowers by Miranda Rijks – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Can psychologist Pippa Durrant unmask a killer before she becomes the next victim? After a seemingly senseless murder at a garden center, the police turn to human lie detector, Pippa Durrant for help. Working alongside handsome detective Joe Swain, Pippa starts digging for the truth. But the Gower family, owners of the garden…
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No One Home by Tim Weaver – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF YOU WERE GONE ‘THE TENTH IN THE TERRIFIC DAVID RAKER SERIES – BLISS!’ LEE CHILD One night, the residents of Black Gale gather for a dinner party. As the only nine people living there, they’ve become close friends as well as neighbours. They eat, drink…
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No Love Lost by Robert Crouch – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB How can a simple job interview end in complete carnage? When Mandy Paige seeks Kent Fisher’s help to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby, he has no idea of the mayhem his investigation will unleash. With only a photograph of a woman he once knew, he discovers she left her…
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Plague by Julie Anderson – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB There are many ways to die. Plague is just one of them. Work on a London tube line is halted by the discovery of an ancient plague pit and, within it, a very recent corpse. A day later another body is found, killed in the same way, also in a plague pit. This…
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Killing The Story by Joan Livingston – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Killing the Story An accidental death that was no accident… For the record, Estelle Crane, the gutsy editor of The Observer newspaper, died after a hard fall on ice. But years later, her son discovers a cryptic note hinting her death might not have been an accident after all. Was Estelle pursuing a…
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Innocent by Erin Kinsley – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A MURDER TEARS A SMALL TOWN APART. BUT WHO DID IT? ‘Brilliant, compelling, heart-wrenching writing.’ Peter James The pretty market town of Sterndale is a close-knit community where everyone thinks they know everyone else. But at a lavish summer wedding a local celebrity is discovered slumped in the gardens, the victim of a…
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The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB She would kill for her family Gwendolyn and Estella have always been as close as sisters can be. Growing up in Jakarta in a wealthy, eminent, and sometimes deceitful family, they’ve relied on only each other for support. But now Gwendolyn is lying in a coma, the sole survivor of Estella’s poisoning of…
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Vintage Crime : From The Crime Writers Association – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Vintage Crimes will be a CWA anthology with a difference, celebrating members’ work over the years. The book will gather stories from the mid- 1950s until the twenty-first century by great names of the past, great names of the present together with a few hidden treasures by less familiar writers. The first CWA…
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Clockwork Sherlock by Ian W. Sainsbury – Audiobook Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A thrilling new adventure featuring literature’s favourite detective like you’ve never seen him before. The first in a series, Clockwork Sherlock follows ex-soldier Captain Jo Barnes. The mysterious VR detective singles her out as his own Dr Watson, but he’s about to find out she’s no fawning sidekick. When tech giant Robert Fairfield…
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The Last Lemming by Chris Chalmers – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB TV naturalist ‘Prof Leo’ Sanders makes it to his deathbed without a whiff of scandal — then confesses his career-defining wildlife discovery was a hoax. A National Treasure shattering his own reputation on YouTube is enough to spark a media frenzy, and the curiosity of part-time journalism student Claire Webster who makes him…
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The Silent Wife by Karin Slaughter – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Atlanta, Georgia. Present day. A young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead. The police investigate but the trail goes cold. Until a chance assignment takes GBI investigator Will Trent to the state penitentiary, and to a prisoner who says he recognises the MO. The attack looks identical to the one he…
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River Rats by Andy Griffee – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Jack Johnson has a talent for trouble – wherever he goes on his narrowboat, it seems to follow him. Moored up on the River Avon in the beautiful Georgian surroundings of Bath, he’s working at the local paper when a prominent magistrate and heritage campaigner is attacked and drowned. Could it be a…
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Canal Pushers by Andy Griffee – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB CANAL PUSHERS A Johnson & Wilde Mystery #1 Introducing Jack Johnson and Nina Wilde. A chance meeting on the towpath, and trouble seems to follow … Jack Johnson, ex-journalist, newly divorced and feeling unmoored, has bought a 64-foot narrowboat with absolutely no idea how to captain it. So when an attractive stranger takes…
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The Split by Sharon Bolton – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The nail-biting new crime thriller from Sharon Bolton, author of Sunday Times Bestseller The Craftsman. SHE’S GOT NOWHERE LEFT TO HIDE. A year ago, in desperation, Felicity Lloyd signed up for a lengthy research trip to the remote island of South Georgia. It was her only way to escape. …
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Death Of A Mermaid by Lesley Thomson – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Freddy left her childhood home in Newhaven twenty-two years ago and swore never to return. But now her parents are dead, and she’s back in her hometown to help her brothers manage the family fishmonger. Nothing here has changed: the stink of fish coming up from the marshes; the shopping trolleys half-buried by…
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Death Of A Painter by Matthew Ross – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB IN THE BUILDING GAME TIME IS MONEY AND MONEY IS EVERYTHING. UNFORTUNATELY FOR MARK POYNTER, HE’S RUN OUT OF MONEY AND HE’S FAST RUNNING OUT OF TIME. When Mark Poynter discovers a murder on his worksite all of his financial problems suddenly seem a lot closer to home: was this a warning his…
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A Conspiracy Of Bones by Kathy Reichs – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Number One New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her nineteenth riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who must use all her tradecraft to discover the identity of a faceless corpse, its connection to a decade-old missing child case, and why the dead man had her phone number. It’s sweltering…
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A Prison In The Sun by Isobel Blackthorn – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A Prison in the Sun After millennial ghostwriter Trevor Moore rents an old farmhouse in Fuerteventura, he moves in to find his muse. Instead, he discovers a rucksack filled with cash. Who does it belong to – and should he hand it in… or keep it? Struggling to make up his mind, Trevor…
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This Lovely City by Louise Hare – Audiobook Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The drinks are flowing. The music’s playing. But the party can’t last. London, 1950. With the Blitz over and London still rebuilding after the war, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England’s call for help. Arriving from Jamaica aboard the Empire Windrush, he’s taken a tiny room in south London lodgings, and…
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