Category: Thriller
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The Creak On The Stairs by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The first in the electrifying new Forbidden Iceland series, The Creak on the Stairs is an exquisitely written, claustrophobic and chillingly atmospheric debut thriller by one of Iceland’s most exciting new talents When the body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear […]
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In Plain Sight by Marion Todd – Book Review
I am pleased to be taking part in the blog tour for In Plain Sight and am reposting my review. PUBLISHERS BLURB A child’s life is at stake. Which of the residents of St Andrews is hiding something – and why? When a baby girl is snatched from the crowd of spectators at a […]
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Slow Down by Lee Matthew Goldberg – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB How far would you go to make your dreams come true? For budding writer and filmmaker Noah Spaeth, being a Production Assistant in director Dominick Bambach’s new avant-garde film isn’t enough. Neither is watching Dominick have an affair with the lead actress, the gorgeous but troubled Nevie Wyeth. For Noah’s dream is to […]
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Black Blood by Jane Eddie – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Danni was a trainee corporate lawyer before she was forced to flee her life in London. Having escaped a controlling and abusive partner, she now finds herself hiding from another predator – her employer. Post-Brexit, the U.K. oil industry is on its knees and desperate to turn a profit, but at what cost? […]
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Draca by Geoffrey Gudgion – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A war-damaged veteran on a mission to self- destruct… … a controlling father pushing him ever closer to the edge… … and a yachtswoman who gives all she has to hold him back. And between them all, there’s an old boat with dark secrets, and perhaps a mind of its own. MY […]
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The Kompromat Kill by Michael Jenkins – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB They were preparing for decades – now it’s time to take them down. When a British Diplomat is kidnapped in the heart of London, followed by a brutal double-assassination in Chelsea, MI5 braces for the threat of deep sleeper cells coming alive. Hiding overseas with a price on his head, Sean Richardson […]
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Overboard by Ivy Ngeow – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Thailand. An epic storm. A shipwreck. A white man has been found alive. But who is he? Suffering horrific injuries and burns, he is taken to a local hospital. He is mute. Everything is a blank. They tell him his name. That is all he knows. When his Chinese wife arrives, he has […]
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The F*ck It List by John Niven – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB You are dying. Who do you kill? Set in a near-future America, an America that has borne two terms of a Trump Presidency and is now in the first term of Donald’s daughter as president, Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, lives in a world where the populist policies Trump is currently […]
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No Truth Left To Tell by Michael McAuliffe – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB February 1994—Lynwood, Louisiana: Flaming crosses light up the night and terrorize the southern town. The resurgent Klan wants a new race war, and the Klansmen will start it here. As federal civil rights prosecutor Adrien Rush is about to discover, the ugly roots of the past run deep in Lynwood. For Nettie Wynn, […]
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30 Days In June by Chris Westlake – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB On the 1st day of June 1988, the residents of south Wales were thrown into a state of panic when a married couple were brutally murdered in their own home. The killer, nicknamed Spartacus by the media, did not flee the scene immediately; instead, he stayed to carve Roman Numerals onto his victims’ […]
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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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Second Sister by Chan Ho-Kei – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Upon discovering her fifteen-year-old sister’s body sprawled in a pool of blood at the bottom of their apartment block, Nga-Yee vows to serve justice to the internet troll she blames for her sister’s suicide. Hiring an anti-establishment, maverick tech-savvy detective, Nga-Yee discovers the dark side of social media, the smokescreen of online privacy […]
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Containment by Vanda Symon – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Chaos reigns in the sleepy village of Aramoana on the New Zealand coast, when a series of shipping containers wash up on the beach and looting begins. Detective Constable Sam Shephard experiences the desperation of the scavengers first-hand, and ends up in an ambulance, nursing her wounds and puzzling over an assault that […]
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Dear Child by Romy Hausmann – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Gone Girl meets Room in this page-turning thriller from one of Germany’s hottest new talents A windowless shack in the woods. Lena’s life and that of her two children follows the rules set by their captor, the father: Meals, bathroom visits, study time are strictly scheduled and meticulously observed. He protects his family […]
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The Second Wife – Rebecca Fleet – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In this dark, menacing thriller, Rebecca Fleet shows us a suspenseful, twisty yet emotionally devastating portrait of a family in turmoil. Everyone brings baggage to a new relationship. When Alex met Natalie she changed his life. After the tragic death of his first wife, which left him a single parent to teenage daughter […]
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Black River by Will Dean – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB FEAR Tuva has been living clean in southern Sweden for four months when she receives horrifying news. Her best friend Tammy has gone missing. SECRETS Racing back to Gavrik at the height of Midsommar, Tuva fears for Tammy’s life. Who has taken her, and why? And who is sabotaging the small-town search efforts? […]
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The Treadstone Resurrection by Joshua Hood – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Working as a cabinet-maker in rural Oregon, Adam thinks he has left Treadstone – the CIA Black Ops programme – in the past, until he receives a mysterious email from a former colleague, and soon after is attacked by an unknown hit team at his job site. Operation Treadstone has nearly ruined Adam […]
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The Last Cuckoo by Maria Frankland – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Do you listen to your mother? Even after she’s dead? Anna Hardaker is following you … This seemingly innocent Tweet fills Jamie Hardaker with confusion and fear. After all, his mother Anna has been dead for nearly three weeks. What follows is an orchestrated Twitter campaign to lead those Anna loved, and didn’t […]
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The Holdout by Graham Moore – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB From the screenwriter of The Imitation Game comes a knockout thriller that reads as 12 Angry Men meets Serial. It was the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar fortune, vanishes on her way home from school. Her teacher, Bobby Nock, is the prime suspect. It’s an […]
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Bleak Alley by Shane Dunphy – Audiobook Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB True crime within the dark heart of Irish gangs. Featuring original Irish folksongs written and performed by the author, Shane Dunphy. He seems like a typical 16-year-old boy except that Mikey is walking the knife edge of crime. He’s tough and good with his fists, but when journalist Shane Dunphy is offered the […]
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