Perfect for fans of Criminal Minds and Blacklist…Uncover the lives and loves of the FBI elite as they take on the toughest assignments. This is a new four-book miniseries featuring an ensemble cast of characters spread across 4 books, featuring 4 urgent cases, with one stellar team of crime solving […]
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The Mist is the third and final book in the Hidden Iceland series. Reviews of the previous two books can be found elsewhere on my site. I’ve really enjoyed this quirky take on Icelandic police work. The Hidden Iceland series begins at the end of Hulda’s career with the police. […]
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Painter has created a wonderful supernaturally infused underworld in London that rivals Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series. Here the central character is Lydia Crow, heir apparent to one of the four magical family dynasties. Working as a private detective from the family cafe she tries to stay clear of the […]
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The latest instalment of Bryndza’s detective series sees Erika coming to terms with Peterson’s injuries and thinking about her future with the Met. When a suitcase is pulled out of the Thames containing dismembered body parts it becomes clear that there is a brutal killer on the loose in London. […]
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Many thanks to the good people at Hodder & Stoughton for including “Angelnet Reviews” on their blog tour around the release date for Dandy Gilver’s latest outing. As usual I’ve done my normal trick of picking up a book far along in a series! This is book twelve in McPherson’s […]
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Fran wakes up in the night because the baby is crying. She realises that husband Nathan isn’t in bed so she checks on the baby and then goes in search of him. When he’d come in from the pub earlier he had snuggled up with her and they’d had sex […]
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This time last year I read a short novella that was a digital prequel to what sounded like a really interesting new series. It has been a long wait but finally the first proper book in the Hanover House series has been published. Her Darkest Nightmare takes up right from […]
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I had a quick look at Lisa’s profile on Goodreads before I started to write this review and was amazed to see that I had read all but one of her books. Although thinking about it I don’t know why I was amazed. You know what you are getting when […]
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Weighing in at a hefty 560 pages The Kept Woman is the eighth book in Slaughter’s Will Trent series. If you haven’t read any of these I wholeheartedly recommend going back to the very beginning and reading Blindsighted. This is the first of the Grant County series and where we […]
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Little Boy Blue is the fifth book in the DI Helen Grace series by M J Arlidge. This can be read as a standalone story but you will get much more out of it if you have read the earlier novels. It will come as no surprise to fans of […]
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In 2013, Laurelin Paige self‐published her first novel. Her husband was just laid off, she had three kids, one with special needs, and they had just filed for bankruptcy so she needed this novel to work. Less than 1 year later, her debut novel, Fixed on You, was at the […]
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The blurb for this book sounded like just the kind of book that I enjoy reading. “Margot Lewis is the agony aunt for The Cambridge Examiner. Her advice column, Dear Amy, gets all kinds of letters – but none like the one she’s just received: Dear Amy, I don’t know […]
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One of the books that I was most excited by earlier this year was “The Girl in the Ice” which was the debut detective novel from Robert Bryndza and the first book in the Detective Erika Foster series. While you can read The Night Stalker as a stand-alone story I […]
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UK Publication Date: 3 Mar 2016. 640 pages. I really should stop choosing books that I think that I SHOULD read. It rarely turns out well! Six Four is a monster of a book at 640 pages and is a translation from the original Japanese. The premise of the story […]
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UK Publication Date: 14 Jun 2016. 365 pages. If you are reading this review and you haven’t already read the first book in this series then it’s time to back up. Stop reading this and go get a copy of First Touch right now. You need to catch up fast! […]
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UK Publication Date: 24 Mar 2016. 400 pages. Considering that I read quite a lot of crime fiction I’ve never actually read a Harlan Coben novel before. I always felt like I should but never actually got round to it. Saying that I started this novel three times before I […]
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UK Publishing Date: 14 Jan 2016 (HB & eBook) & 25 Aug 2016 (Paperback). 320 pages. I noticed one publisher recently describing books in this genre as “grip-lit” and physically shuddered when I read it. Yes it is a gripping psychological drama but honestly – “grip-lit”? What is wrong with […]
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UK Publishing Date: 7 Jan 2016 (Paperback due 5 May 2016). 384 pages. It was a struggle remembering to exhale as I reached the climax of Holly Seddon’s debut novel Try Not to Breathe. Alex Dale is a lot of things. An ex-wife. An ex-journalist. A pretty good high functioning […]
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UK Publishing Date: 12 Feb 2016. 396 Pages. As soon as I finished The Girl in The Ice I immediately rushed off to google Robert Bryndza so that I could check out his other books. It turns out that this novel is his first crime thriller and that Mr Bryndza […]
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UK Publication Date: 02 Feb 2016. 432 pages. Many years ago I was an avid fan of Dr Alex Delaware and I rushed to the library to get on the wait list when every new novel came out. I don’t really know why, but we drifted apart. There was no […]
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