Regular readers to this blog will know how much I loved Douglas Skelton’s Thunder Bay. Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Book of the Year, Thunder Bay is the first book to feature journalist Rebecca Connolly. Tense, atmospheric, beautifully written, Thunder Bay is a cracker of a crime novel I really loved. Now theContinue reading “#CoverReveal The Blood Is Still by Douglas Skelton @douglasskelton1 @PolygonBooks #TheBloodisStill”
Category Archives: Crime
Nothing to Hide (Con Fairchild #2) by James Oswald @SirBenfro @annecater @Jenniferleech1 @WildfireBks #NothingtoHide
Source: Review copy Publication: 14th November 2019 2019 from WildfirePP: 352ISBN-13: 978-1472267337 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, ConstanceContinue reading “Nothing to Hide (Con Fairchild #2) by James Oswald @SirBenfro @annecater @Jenniferleech1 @WildfireBks #NothingtoHide”
Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee @radiomukhers @VintageBooks #DeathintheEast
Source: Review copyPublication: 14 November 2019 from Harvill Secker PP: 432ISBN-13: 978-1787300576 Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, are back for another rip-roaring adventure set in 1920s India. 1905, London. As a young constable, Sam Wyndham is on his usual East London beat when he comes across anContinue reading “Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee @radiomukhers @VintageBooks #DeathintheEast”
Violet by S.J.I.Holliday @SJIHolliday @orendabooks @annecater #Violet #Blogtour #Trainnoir
Source: Review copyPublication: 14 November 2019 from Orenda BooksPP: 276ISBN-13: 978-1912374854 Carrie’s best friend has an accident and can no longer make the round-the-world trip they’d planned together, so Carrie decides to go it alone. Violet is also travelling alone, after splitting up with her boyfriend in Thailand. She is also desperate for a ticketContinue reading “Violet by S.J.I.Holliday @SJIHolliday @orendabooks @annecater #Violet #Blogtour #Trainnoir”
Highest Lives by Gordon Brown @GoJaBrown @StridentPublish @AnneCater #HighestLives
Source: Review copyPublication: 8 October 2019 from Strident PublishingPP: 272ISBN-13: 978-1910829387 In cities across North America people are dying in seemingly impossible ways. Is history s most outrageous serial killer on the loose? When LAPD Detective Sarah Tracy is secretly instructed to recruit Craig McIntyre to help her investigate the deaths, she is unaware thatContinue reading “Highest Lives by Gordon Brown @GoJaBrown @StridentPublish @AnneCater #HighestLives”
The Crown Agent by Stephen O’Rourke @sorourke_ @SandstonePress @CerisAnne #TheCrownAgent
Source: Review copyPublication: 7th November 2019 from Sandstone PressPP: 228ISBN-13: 978-1912240760 In 1829, disillusioned young doctor, Mungo Lyon, is recruited by the Crown to investigate a mysterious murder and shipwreck off the coast of Scotland. His adventures lead him on a pursuit across the Scottish countryside, to kidnap and treason, an unwanted trip to theContinue reading “The Crown Agent by Stephen O’Rourke @sorourke_ @SandstonePress @CerisAnne #TheCrownAgent”
A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci (Atlee Pine #2) @davidbaldacci @panmacmillan @laurasherlock21
Nuanced, layered and immensely compelling storytelling. A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci (Atlee Pine #2) @davidbaldacci @panmacmillan @laurasherlock21
Dark Nights, Dark Deeds in Grantown at The Wee Crime Festival @BookmarkMarjory @MichaelJMalone #WeeCrimeFestival
There is nothing quite as awe inspiring as an autumn drive up the A9. The variety of trees and colours is simply spectacular and though the day was a little dreich it was still a pleasant journey. Grantown on Spey is a splendid little Highland town in the centre of the Scottish Highland on theContinue reading “Dark Nights, Dark Deeds in Grantown at The Wee Crime Festival @BookmarkMarjory @MichaelJMalone #WeeCrimeFestival”
Gone by Leona Deakin @LeonaDeakin1 @HJ_Barnes @TransworldBooks #Gone
Source: Review copyPublication: 9th August 2019 in e-book; 12 December 2019 in paperback from Black SwanPP: 384ISBN-13: 978-1784164089 Four strangers are missing. Left at their last-known locations are birthday cards that read:YOUR GIFT IS THE GAME. DARE TO PLAY? The police aren’t worried – it’s just a game. But the families are frantic. As psychologistContinue reading “Gone by Leona Deakin @LeonaDeakin1 @HJ_Barnes @TransworldBooks #Gone”
Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver @will_carver @orendabooks @annecater #NothingImportantHappenedToday
Source: Review copyPublication: 14 November 2019 from Orenda Books PP: 287ISBN-13: 978-1912374830 Nine suicides One Cult No leader Nine people arrive one night on Chelsea Bridge. They’ve never met. But at the same time, they run, and leap to their deaths. Each of them received a letter in the post that morning, a pre-written suicideContinue reading “Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver @will_carver @orendabooks @annecater #NothingImportantHappenedToday”
