Astrid Webb is missing, but she’s also sick and usually stays at home. Bryan Webb arrives home from a cycle ride to find the police waiting outside his perfect countryside cottage to inform him that they’ve found his wife’s car, with blood inside, abandoned near the woods. Bryan immediately has questions: why had Astrid left […]
Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers. Not because she’s a police officer in a sleepy American town, where most offences are so minor they’re barely worth ticketing, but because she survived being kidnapped by one in her teens. Now an adult, Ellery fiercely guards her past secrets, but she also knows […]
‘Jukes cried out in agony before toppling onto the ground like a skittle struck by a bowling ball.’ Murder. Kidnap. Mayhem. And that’s just the opening few pages. Tony Bassett is back with the sixth book in his DCI Roscoe and DS Roy series, although this time it’s not just the criminal gang causing mayhem: […]
Recently I was privileged to receive a copy of debut novelist David Young’s ‘Stasi Child’. It’s a darkly shocking tale set in East Berlin the 1970s – in the DDR – and is the first in a series featuring People’s Police detective Karin Muller. My full review can be found here, but I thought it […]
Humpy Dumpty’s dead. Whodunit? If you’re thinking, “erm…he fell?” then you need to read this book. Although he was basically a good guy, businessman Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III had made a few enemies and was last seen, horribly drunk, boasting about his ability to summon up rather a large sum of money… What’s it […]
If you enjoy ambiguity and unreliable narrators, you’ll love this. ‘The Girl on the Stairs’ is Louise Welsh’s fifth novel but the first I’ve read (thanks book group!). After this, I’ll definitely be checking out her back catalogue. What’s it about? Heavily pregnant Jane has just moved to Berlin with her Lebenspartner. While Petra works, […]