Category: Police procedural
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When The Dead Come Calling by Helen Sedgwick – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Published by Point Blank 9 January 2020 Hardback £14.99 ‘When The Dead Come Calling confirms what many of us already knew: Helen Sedgwick is one of Scotland’s finest contemporary storytellers.’ CLAIRE ASKEW, author of All the Hidden Truths ‘By combining up-to-the-minute themes, well-tuned dialogue and warm and witty details of everyday life with […]
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Loot & I’m With The Band (Cases 5&6) by B.L. Faulkner – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Two cases from the files DCS Palmer and the Metropolitan Police Serial Murder squad. Case 5 ‘Loot’ sends the team on the trail of stolen WW2 Nazi gold that seems to be the reason for two murders. But where has it come from and how much is there? Soon the body count rises […]
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The Other Woman by Jane Issac – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The grieving widow. The other woman. Which one is which? When Cameron Swift is shot and killed outside his family home, DC Beth Chamberlain is appointed Family Liaison Officer. Her role is to support the family –and investigate them. Monika, Cameron’s partner and mother of two sons, had to be prised off his lifeless body […]
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Blood Family by Graeme Hampton – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB All families have secrets… some are deadly. When D.I. Matthew Denning is called in to investigate a house fire in a North London street, he never anticipated the horrors that awaited him. As Denning and D.S. Molly Fisher search the wreckage, the bodies of the Galloway family – Brian and Ellie, son Simon, […]
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Stasi Winter by David Young – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In 1978 East Germany, nothing is at it seems. The state’s power is absolute, history is re-written, and the ‘truth’ is whatever the Stasi say it is. So when a woman’s murder is officially labelled ‘accidental death’, Major Karin Müller of the People’s Police is faced with a dilemma. To solve the crime, […]
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The Moon Eater by I.M. Bones – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Modern-day London. The city of dark streets and mysterious happenings…And also the home of the half-werewolf assassin, Gold. If anything goes bump in the night, then it would definitely be this sugar obsessed, mask-wearing, hitman. He has a flare for the occult and an ear for classical music, but by day, the mortals […]
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Death At Eden’s End By Jo Allen – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A brand new DCI Jude Satterthwaite crime mystery from the best selling Jo Allen. When one-hundred-year-old Violet Ross is found dead at Eden’s End, a luxury care home hidden in a secluded nook of the Lake District’s Eden Valley it’s tragic, of course, but not unexpected. Except for the instantly recognisable look in her […]
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Deathly Affair by Leigh Russell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Four dead bodies. But who is guilty in this deadly web of secrecy and lies? When a homeless man is murdered, Detective Sergeant Geraldine Steel is disturbed by the coldblooded nature of the crime. With the discovery of a second victim, the police hunt for a killer whose motive is as elusive as […]
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The Sound Of Her Voice by Nathan Blackwell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Some murder cases you can’t forget. No matter how hard you try. The body of a woman has been found on a pristine New Zealand beach – over a decade after she was murdered. Detective Matt Buchanan of the Auckland Police is certain it carries all the hallmarks of an unsolved crime he […]
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Nothing To Hide by James Oswald – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Suspended from duty after her last case ended in the high-profile arrest of one of Britain’s wealthiest men, DC Constance Fairchild is trying to stay away from the limelight. Fate has other ideas . . . Coming home to her London flat, Constance stumbles across a young man, bloodied, mutilated and barely alive. […]
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The Snow Killer by Ross Greenwood – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB ‘FEAR THE NORTH WIND. BECAUSE NO ONE WILL HEAR YOU SCREAM…’ A family is gunned down in the snow but one of the children survives. Three years on, that child takes revenge and the Snow Killer is born. But then, nothing – no further crimes are committed, and the case goes cold. Fifty […]
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A Fatal Secret by Faith Martin – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Oxford, 1961 A family day out at Briar’s Hall ends in tragedy when a young boy goes missing – and his body is found at the bottom of a disused well in the orchard. It looks like a simple case of an eleven-year-old exploring where he shouldn’t: a tragic accident. But Coroner Clement […]
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Retriever Of Souls by Lorraine Mace – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The first title in a dark and gritty crime series. Brought up believing that sex is the devil’s work, a killer only finds release once he has saved his victim’s souls. Abiding by his vision, he marks them as his. A gift to guide his chosen ones on the rightful path to redemption. […]
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From Inside The House by W.D. Jackson-Smart – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Two victims. Brutally murdered in their own home. Body parts taken. D.I. Graves is back on the case to face his toughest challenge yet. A case with no motive and no suspect, nothing at all that could explain why someone would kill innocent people in such a way. Then the next victims are […]
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See Them Run by Marion Todd – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In a famous Scottish town, someone is bent on murder – but why? On the night of a wedding celebration, one guest meets a grisly end when he’s killed in a hit-and-run. A card bearing the number ‘5’ has been placed on the victim’s chest. DI Clare Mackay, who recently moved from Glasgow […]
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All His Pretty Girls by Charly Cox – Book
PUBLISHERS BLURB Detective Alyssa Wyatt is hunting a serial killer. She doesn’t know that he’s hunting her. A woman is found naked, badly beaten and barely alive in the New Mexico mountains. The shocking discovery plunges Albuquerque Detective Alyssa Wyatt into a case that will test her to the limit. It appears that Callie McCormick […]
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Deadly Silence by OMJ Ryan – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Some sins can never be forgiven. DI Jane Phillips was a star detective driven by a relentless quest for justice. But then she stepped outside the law. Now, demoted and suffering with PTSD, she finds herself facing the deadliest threat of her career — a serial killer who is preying on vulnerable women, […]
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Her Last Whisper by Jennifer Chase – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Katie focuses her mind, trying to keep another anxiety attack at bay. The victim’s long brown hair is slick and wet, her body rigid in the grass. She looks more like a mannequin than the woman Katie had spoken with only yesterday, the woman she had promised to protect… When a cold, naked […]
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Broken Souls by Patricia Gibney – Book Review. @trisha460 @Bookouture #BrokenSouls
PUBLISHERS BLURB ‘She shivered, though the kitchen was warm. Icicles of foreboding trickled down her spine. With trembling hands she whipped back her hair at the nape of her neck. As she turned away from the window, she missed the shadow passing by.’ One dark winter’s morning, bride-to-be Cara Dunne is found hanging in her […]
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Ghost and Ragman Roll by Pete Adams – Book Review. @Peteadams8 @NextChapterPB @damppebbles #GhostAndRagmanRoll
PUBLISHERS BLURB His French honeymoon continually interrupted by a series of misdeeds, DCI Jack Austin returns to Portsmouth to find the missing link. When an ambitious new detective infringes on his territory – and his ego – Austin resorts to illogically effective tactics to protect those that matter most. With a corpulent gangster gone missing […]
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