Sometimes, a story makes you hold your breath. That’s how I felt for the first third of Leye Adenle’s spy / PI thriller, ‘Fall From Grace’. As two spies sought to manipulate each other and shadowy connections between characters began to emerge, I was on tenterhooks, waiting to understand the full set-up and see who […]
“So far, I never shot anyone who didn’t have it coming.” Meet Rico, an underworld enforcer with a moral code – of sorts. When Rico is tasked with retrieving his boss’ stolen jewellery, it seems like it should be a straightforward job, but when the thief escapes to Honolulu and involves innocent bystanders, everything changes. […]
‘My story starts with a body, just not the one you might expect.’ When Janeway Sharp loses her father suddenly, she also loses her grip on day-to-day life. While seeking answers, trying to understand her father’s choices, Jane discovers an online true crime solving community and begins to make new friendships that will ultimately lead […]
What do our most notorious killers deserve? This is the question M. J. Arlidge explores in this fast paced, violent tale that imagines what might happen if a vigilante infiltrated the probation service and decided to supply the bereaved families with the knowledge required to take their revenge… What’s it about? Arlidge’s chunky tale focuses […]
‘His gut was telling him he had stumbled on a crime that had something to do with little girls.’ When local police visit an elderly peeping tom, the confiscated photographs of multiple young girls are sent by an intuitive PC Carey to an even more intuitive DI Custer, of the recently formed Paedophile Unit, to […]
A father and son enter a ghost house at a theme park. They never come out. This isn’t Private Investigator David Raker’s case – he is hired to uncover what happened to Fiona Murphy, a mother who walked out of her house on boxing day 40 years ago and was never seen again – but […]
How does a whole village vanish? Well, it’s a small village – four houses, nine people – but this is still a cracking premise for a crime thriller. Where did the people of Black Gale go? Two and a half years on, there are still no answers. Enter: David Raker, a Private Investigator whose sole […]
One Murder. Fifteen Suspects. Can You Uncover The Truth? As the strapline suggests, this is a crime novel that, to a greater than usual degree, invites the reader to solve the case alongside the investigators. Personally, I like to sit back and see what happens, but I was intrigued by the narrative style of this […]
‘The Nancys and the Case of the Missing Necklace’ introduces Tippy Chan, her Uncle Pike and his boyfriend Devon. ‘We need to look for the head,’ I said. Devon swung around. His and Uncle Pike’s eyes bugged out at me. ‘What?’ I said. ‘Isn’t it our biggest clue?’ My uncle tapped his lip. ‘She does […]
Having read and loved all Young’s ‘Stasi’ books, I was keen to read his new standalone novel, ‘Death in Blitz City’. Though this tale is set in Hull in 1942, when the most heavily bombed city outside London was suffering badly under German bombs, for Detective Chief Inspector Ambrose Swift, one particular death demands his […]