A very egalitarian killer. The nun is dead, her body lies on the mayor’s lawn. And it isn’t alone. There are four of them altogether. They’ve been killed at different times, in different places, and dumped there. There should be five – but the boy is missing. One second he was there… Jonah Quill, blindContinue reading “Blind Sight by Carol O’Connell”
Monthly Archives: May 2017
A Murder of Crows by Ian Skewis
The most violent thunderstorm in living memory occurs above a sleepy village on the West Coast of Scotland. A young couple take shelter in the woods, never to be seen again… DCI Jack Russell is brought in to investigate. Nearing retirement, he agrees to undertake one last case, which he believes can be solvedContinue reading “A Murder of Crows by Ian Skewis”
Kill The Father by Sandrone Dazieri (translated by Antony Shugaar) (Colomba Caselli #1)
The rock cast a sharp, dark shadow over a shape huddled on the ground. Please don’t let it be the boy, Colomba thought. Her silent prayer didn’t go unanswered. The corpse belonged to the mother.’ When a woman is killed in a park outside Rome and her six-year-old son goes missing, the police unitContinue reading “Kill The Father by Sandrone Dazieri (translated by Antony Shugaar) (Colomba Caselli #1)”
Exquisite by Sarah Stovell
Bo Luxton has it all – a loving family, a beautiful home in the Lake District, and a clutch of bestselling books to her name. Enter Alice Dark, an aspiring writer who is drifting through life, with a series of dead-end jobs and a freeloading boyfriend. When they meet at a writers’ retreat, the chemistryContinue reading “Exquisite by Sarah Stovell”
Time to Win by Harry Brett
When local crime boss Richard Goodwin is pulled from the river by his office it looks like suicide. But as his widow Tatiana feared, Rich collected enemies like poker chips, and half of Great Yarmouth’s criminal fraternity would have had reason to kill him. Realising how little she knows about the man she married,Continue reading “Time to Win by Harry Brett”
You Don’t Know Me by Imran Mahmood
An unnamed defendant stands accused of murder. Just before the Closing Speeches, the young man sacks his lawyer, and decides to give his own defence speech. He tells us that his barrister told him to leave some things out. Sometimes, the truth can be too difficult to explain, or believe. But he thinks that ifContinue reading “You Don’t Know Me by Imran Mahmood”
Obsession by Amanda Robson
One evening, a wife asks her husband a question: who else would you go for, if you could? It is a simple question – a little game – that will destroy her life. Carly and Rob are a perfect couple. They share happy lives with their children and their close friends Craig and Jenni. They’reContinue reading “Obsession by Amanda Robson”
Want You Gone by Christopher Brookmyre
Sam Morpeth is growing up way too fast, left to fend for a younger sister with learning difficulties when their mother goes to prison and watching her dreams of university evaporate. But Sam learns what it is to be truly powerless when a stranger begins to blackmail her online, drawing her into a trap sheContinue reading “Want You Gone by Christopher Brookmyre”
A Little Death by A.J. Cross
Dr Kate Hanson and the Unsolved Crime Unit are facing their most challenging cold case yet: the year-old murder of a female student. When, a year after she went missing, the body of 19-year-old student Elizabeth Williams is discovered in a field near her college, Dr Kate Hanson and her colleagues are faced with aContinue reading “A Little Death by A.J. Cross”
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