One body. Six victims. A body is discovered with the dismembered parts of six victims stitched together, nicknamed by the press as the ‘Ragdoll’. Assigned to the shocking case are Detective William ‘Wolf’ Fawkes, recently reinstated to the London Met, and his former partner Detective Emily Baxter. The ‘Ragdoll Killer’ taunts the police by releasingContinue reading “Ragdoll by Daniel Cole”
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Rattle by Fiona Cummins
A serial killer to chill your bones A psychopath more frightening than Hannibal Lecter. He has planned well. He leads two lives. In one he’s just like anyone else. But in the other he is the caretaker of his family’s macabre museum. Now the time has come to add to his collection. He is readyContinue reading “Rattle by Fiona Cummins”
Watch Her Disappear by Eva Dolan
YOU CAN RUN FROM YOUR PAST BUT YOU CAN’T RUN FROM MURDER The body is found by the river, near a spot popular with runners. With a serial rapist at work in the area, DI Zigic and DS Ferreira are initially confused when the Hate Crimes Unit is summoned to the scene. Until they discoverContinue reading “Watch Her Disappear by Eva Dolan”
Duplicity by Sibel Hodge
Duplicity is a very easy, persuasive read. Nicely structured, well plotted and with a surprising sting in the tail, it is a book destined to be very popular.
What Remains of Me by A.L. Gaylin
People don’t need to know you’re a murderer. They just have to think you could be… June 1980: 17-year-old Kelly Lund is jailed for killing Hollywood film director, John McFadden Thirty years later, Kelly is a free woman. Yet speculation still swirls over what really happened that night. And when her father-in law, and closeContinue reading “What Remains of Me by A.L. Gaylin”
Good Girls Don’t Tell by Liselotte Roll
When Erik Berggren, a man with learning disabilities is found mutilated and brutally murdered Inspector Magnus Kalo and his team are mystified. Other than being an alcoholic, the victim seems to have led a completely normal, if rather lonely, life. Then Erik’s mother is viciously attacked in a similar way. Investigating family secrets that stretchContinue reading “Good Girls Don’t Tell by Liselotte Roll”
My Sister’s Bones by Nuala Ellwood
My Sister’s Bones by Nuala Ellwood Kate Rafter is a high-flying war reporter. She’s the strong one. The one who escaped their father. Her younger sister Sally didn’t. Instead, she drinks. But when their mother dies, Kate is forced to return home. And on her first night she is woken by a terrifying scream. AtContinue reading “My Sister’s Bones by Nuala Ellwood”
The Beautiful Dead by Belinda Bauer
There’s no safety in numbers… Eve Singer needs death. With her career as a TV crime reporter flagging, she’ll do anything to satisfy her ghoulish audience. The killer needs death too. He even advertises his macabre public performances, where he hopes to show the whole world the beauty of dying. When he contacts Eve,Continue reading “The Beautiful Dead by Belinda Bauer”
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
Mid-December, and Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow. Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to sleep after yet another soul-destroying Internet date – the low murmuring of her police radio her only solace. Over the airwaves come reports of a missing woman – door ajar, keys and phone left behind, a spatter of blood on the kitchenContinue reading “Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner”
Bloody Scotland
A quick break from reviews to take in the Stirling based Crime Writing Festival Bloody Scotland. It was an exceeding wet night as we queued for entry to the opening session with Caro Ramsay and Stuart MacBride, with an unscheduled photographic appearance by Douglas Skelton. What you may not know about (especially) the grizzliest ofContinue reading “Bloody Scotland”
Live and Deadly 