Category Archives: Book Reviews

Synopsis: My name is Nicky Frank. Except, most likely, it isn’t. Nicole Frank shouldn’t have been able to survive the car accident, much less crawl up the steep ravine. Not in the dark, not in the rain, not with her Continue reading Crash & Burn -Review-→

Synopsis: Against a background of international money laundering, police corruption and legal chicanery, the story of one man is played out. He is innocent, but will he find justice? It is 2006 and Commander Max Hardcastle has left the Navy Continue reading Retribution -Review-→

Synopsis: When the naked, battered body of an unidentified teenager is found dumped in an alleyway, post-mortem finds evidence of a harrowing series of events. Another teenage death with the same MO pushes DI Hannah Robbins and her team on Continue reading Shallow Waters -Review-→

Synopsis: Village policeman, Jake Sullivan’s world just got a lot darker with the discovery of two bodies hanging upside-down from the top of a church tower, and the revelation that they had been crucified. Jake and his girlfriend Rachel Hammond are Continue reading Ascension Day -Review-→

Synopsis: This genre-bending eBook bundle proves that not only is Karin Slaughter “one of the best crime novelists in America” (The Washington Post), she’s one of today’s very best writers, period. From the hallucinatory noir novella Go Deep to the Continue reading Three Twisted Stories -Review-→

Synopsis: When Lily Dietz, an ambitious yet short-tempered Asian-American NYC homicide detective, and longtime partner John Fremont begin to work a unique but gruesome murder case, cryptic clues in the evidence start to link with Lily’s dark and troubling past—one Continue reading The Fisherman’s Lily -Review-→

Synopsis: DS Lorne Warner and DI Katy Foster are called to the scene of an electrician’s suspected suicide but quickly discover that they’re dealing with a murder case instead. Katy’s family emergency forces her back home to be by her Continue reading Dubious Justice -Review-→

Synopsis: From the author of number one bestseller, Sleep Tight. One Dark Secret. One act of revenge. When Emma Joseph met her husband David, he was a man shattered by grief. His first wife had been killed outright when her Continue reading Stranger Child -Review-→

Synopsis: THE WAR HAS JUST BEGUN… Once the top leader of the Sur del Calle cartel, Colombia’s largest drug trafficking organization, Pablo Sanchez has declared revenge against Blake Barnett, the FBI agent who’d killed his twin brother over a decade Continue reading Retribution: A Whitney Steel Novel (2) -Review-→

Synopsis: A British Crime Thriller. After Billy Reeves had survived a poverty ridden and violent childhood on a council estate in Newcastle he thought he had it all; a loving family, money and respect but a face from the past Continue reading Maxwell’s Silver Hammer -Review-→

Synopsis: Something happened to Claire and Jo in Black Wood: something that left Claire paralysed and Jo with deep mental scars. But with Claire suffering memory loss and no evidence to be found, nobody believes Jo’s story. Twenty-three years later, Continue reading Black Wood – Review-→

Synopsis: Caught in a violent and abusive relationship, Serenity thinks there is no escape. Then she meets a stranger, Sebastian, who shows her the possibility of a different future. Only Sebastian has a dark secret; he is a vampire. As Continue reading Alone -Review-→

Synopsis: Betrayals of trust, poker cheats, ambitious barristers, cyber bullies, lost diplomats and revenge are just some of the themes explored in this collection of short stories. As Mike Craven introduces Detective Inspector Avison Fluke and the rest of his Continue reading Assume Nothing, Believe Nobody, Challenge Everything -Review-→

Synopsis: When the murder of a colleague is linked to a series of suspicious deaths, Detective Superintendent Greg Woods’ team are tasked with solving the mystery. New to the team is Maria Barnes, whose besmirched character sadly precedes her. However Continue reading CXVI: The Beginning of the End -Review→