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Synopsis: The greater the evil, the more deadly the game… When Emma awakens in total darkness, she is aware of her nakedness. Injuries. A bed not her own. A blindingly bright light suddenly pierces the blackness and a disembodied male Continue reading Portraits Of The Dead *Review*
Previously known as Synopsis: ‘I’m not your mother. You’re a monster. I don’t want you’ Women who gave a child up for adoption are being killed. A knock at their front door Continue reading DEATH NOTE: *Review* @nholten40 @Caroline_writes @bookouture
Synopsis: Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things. Why is Continue reading Quite Ugly One Morning ~Review
Synopsis: Glasgow, 1953: the war may be over but the battle for the streets is just beginning. Three crime bosses control the murky streets, but a small-scale con is trying to invade their territory. The balance is shifting. Lennox, a Continue reading Lennox by Craig Russell ~ Review
Synopsis: Luther meets The Wire, this is the first Detective Harry Virdee novel The sky over Bradford is heavy with foreboding. It always is. But this morning it has reason to be – this morning a body has been found. Continue reading Streets of Darkness ~Review~
Synopsis: Life is about choices, those already made and those yet to come. For John Cooper, more than most, this is especially true. Lost, hopeless and alone, he drifts through the Brighton underworld, a slave to his heroin habit and Continue reading But For The Grace Of God ~Review~
I wanted to do something new and different on my blog which would give readers a treat but also let authors share their writing in a different way. So what did I come up with? My little brain was Continue reading Partners in Crime ~ Author Meets Reviewer by Graham Smith
Synopsis: 11 Hard boiled stories of murder, misconception and mayhem. Nothing ends as expected. Everything can change in an instant. Tense, thrilling and funny. You’ll be cheering on, laughing at and crying for the characters. Take a walk in the Continue reading Eleven The Hardest Way ~Review~
Synopsis: Her eyes are wide open. Her lips parted as if to speak. Her dead body frozen in the ice…She is not the only one. When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of Continue reading The Girl In The Ice ~Review~
Synopsis: Five figures gather round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken but the pact had been made. Their secrets would be buried, Continue reading Even the darkest secrets can’t stay buried forever…Silent Scream #Review @nholten40 @WriteAngie @bookouture
Synopsis: Middle-class parents Victoria and Nicholas Foulkes are distraught when their children are kidnapped against Nicholas’s gambling debts. Penniless and desperate, the couple turn to crime as a way to raise the ransom. Hot on their heels is recently bereaved Continue reading Snatched From Home -Review
Synopsis: You don’t know him. But he knows you. Soon he would be able to touch her, to feel the warmth of her blood. And when the time came, nothing would stop him. As D.C. Jennifer Knight investigates a Continue reading Don’t Turn Around – #Review @nholten40 @Caroline_writes
Synopsis: When one of the notorious Johnson brothers is murdered and a bag of money goes missing, a deadly game of cat and mouse is set in motion. DS Allie Shenton and her team are called in to catch the Continue reading Only The Brave – #Review @nholten40 @writermels