Source: Review copyPublication: 19 January 2023 from riverrunPP: 368ISBN-13: 978-1529428483 My thanks to riverrun and Sophie Ransom for an advance copy for review A TOMB OF ICEA young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice. A DYING DETECTIVECameron Brodie, a Glasgow detective, setsContinue reading “A Winter Grave by Peter May @authorpetermay @riverrunbooks @soph_ransompr”
Category Archives: Police procedural
A Deadly Covenant by Michael Stanley (Detective Kubu #8) @DetectiveKubu @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours
Source: Review copyPublication: 8 December from Orenda BooksPP: 300ISBN-13: 978-1-914585-42-5 While building a pipeline near the Okavango Delta, a contractor unearths the remains of a long-dead Bushman. Rookie Detective David ‘Kubu’ Bengu of Botswana CID and Scottish pathologist, Ian MacGregor, are sent to investigate, and MacGregor discovers the skeletons of eight more men. Shortly afterContinue reading “A Deadly Covenant by Michael Stanley (Detective Kubu #8) @DetectiveKubu @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours”
The Devil Stone by Caro Ramsay @CaroRamsayBooks @severnhouse
Source: Review copyPublication: 6 December 2022 from Severn HousePP: 288ISBN-13: 978-1448309740 In the small Highland village of Cronchie, a wealthy family are found brutally murdered in a satanic ritual and their heirloom, ‘the devil stone’, is the only thing stolen. The key suspects are known satanists – case closed? But when the investigating officer disappearsContinue reading “The Devil Stone by Caro Ramsay @CaroRamsayBooks @severnhouse”
Hidden Scars by Angela Marsons (D.I.Kim Stone #17) @WriteAngie @Bookouture @graciegirlracer #Guest Review
Source: Review copy (Netgalley)Publication: 9 November 2020 from BookouturePP: 374ISBN-13: 978-1803147727 Thanks to Bookouture for an advance copy for review I am delighted to welcome guest reviewer Grace Mitchell to Live and Deadly. Grace is an avid reader and is a long-time fan of Angela Marson’s D.I. Kim Stone series. When a nineteen-year-old boy, JamieContinue reading “Hidden Scars by Angela Marsons (D.I.Kim Stone #17) @WriteAngie @Bookouture @graciegirlracer #Guest Review”
Desert Star by Michael Connelly @Connellybooks @orionbooks @orion_crime (Ballard & Bosch; Renee Ballard #5)
Source: Review copyPublication: 8 November 2022 from OrionPP: 400ISBN-13: 978-1409186229 My thanks to Orion for an advance copy for review SOME CRIMES YOU CAN’T FORGET. Detective Renée Ballard is given the chance of a lifetime: revive the LAPD’s cold case unit and find justice for the families of the forgotten. The only catch isContinue reading “Desert Star by Michael Connelly @Connellybooks @orionbooks @orion_crime (Ballard & Bosch; Renee Ballard #5)”
The Collector by Anne Mette Hancock trs #TaraChase (Kaldan and Schäfer #2) @hancock_mette @crookedlanebks
Source: Review copyPublication: 8 November 2022 from Crooked Lane BooksPP: 352ISBN: 9781639101177 My thanks to Crooked Lane Books for an advance copy for review A boy has disappeared from his school. Heloise Kaldan heads over there to look into it. At the schoolyard she runs into her close friend Erik Schäfer, the outspoken investigator onContinue reading “The Collector by Anne Mette Hancock trs #TaraChase (Kaldan and Schäfer #2) @hancock_mette @crookedlanebks”
Silent Victim (D.C.I. Matilda Darke #10) by Michael Wood @MichaelHWood @0neMoreChapter_
Source: Review copyPublication: 10 November 2022 from One More ChapterPP: 448ISBN-13: 978-0008535605 My thanks to Harper Collins and One More Chapter for an advance copy for review He took her voice She took it back A CENSURED DETECTIVE WITH NO LEADS DCI Matilda Darke and her team have been restricted under special measures after aContinue reading “Silent Victim (D.C.I. Matilda Darke #10) by Michael Wood @MichaelHWood @0neMoreChapter_”
Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths @ellygriffiths @QuercusBooks
Source: Review copyPublication: 29 September 2022 from QuercusPP: 352ISBN-13: 978-1529409956 My thanks to Quercus for an advance copy for review DS Cassie Fitzherbert has a secret – but it’s one she’s deleted from her memory. In the 1990s when she was at school, she and her friends killed a fellow pupil. Thirty years later, CassieContinue reading “Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths @ellygriffiths @QuercusBooks”
One of Our Minister is Missing by Alan Johnstone @Wildfirebks @alan_books @bookywookydooda
Source: Review copyPublication: 1st September 2022from WildfirePP: 384ISBN-13: 978-1472286215 My thanks to Wildfire Books for an advance copy for review On holiday in Crete, Lord Bellingham had been solo trekking in the White Mountains when he mysteriously disappeared. After a vast search and rescue operation, the local police have no leads, save for aContinue reading “One of Our Minister is Missing by Alan Johnstone @Wildfirebks @alan_books @bookywookydooda“
From The Ashes (DI Eve Hunter Book #3) by Deborah Masson @deborah_masson @RandomTTours @HJ_Barnes
Source: Review copyPublication: 18 August 2022 p/back from Penguin. Out now in e-bookPP: 368ISBN-13: 978-0552178259 My thanks to Random Things Tours and Penguin for an advance copy for review purposes As the house burns, the hunt for a killer begins… In the dead of night someone starts a fire in a home for underprivilegedContinue reading “From The Ashes (DI Eve Hunter Book #3) by Deborah Masson @deborah_masson @RandomTTours @HJ_Barnes”
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