UK Publishing Date: 21 Apr 2016. 384 pages. The story begins in London in 1970. At the age of twenty seven Audrey Bailey is alone in the world. Her father has died leaving her an orphan. At the urging of her friend Janet she boards a ship and travels half […]
UK Publishing Date: 14 Apr 2016. 464 pages The Obsession is the latest of Nora Roberts’ standalone novels. Although marketed as a romantic suspense novel it is a tough one to describe. Think Criminal Minds meets Grand Designs set in Twilight country. I did warn you. It’s complicated. Naomi Bowes […]
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 […]
UK Publishing Date: 25 Feb 2016. 416 pages. I had to keep coming back to this book (read over the course of a month with other books in between) and for me it was just a difficult and frustrating read. Jules Bright gets a knock on the door and it […]
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 […]
UK Publishing Date: 11 Feb 2016. 352 pages. I was quite surprised when I just checked the number of pages for this review because Behind Closed Doors felt like quite a short book. In reality it isn’t it just keeps you turning the pages so quickly that it feels shorter […]
UK Publishing Date: 11 Feb 2016. 352 pages. I’ve just closed the cover on my kindle and I’m glad that I’m in the middle of a train full of people. It’s warm and noisy and having just finished The Haunting it is exactly what is needed. I really enjoyed Alex […]
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 […]
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 […]
UK Publishing Date: 27 Feb 2014. 433 pages Silence of the Sea is book number six in the Thora Guðmundsdóttir series of Icelandic crime mysteries. While it can be read as a standalone book I thoroughly recommend that you read the others in the series first as it adds so […]
UK Publishing Date: 9 Jul 2015. 354 pages. Oblivion is the second English translated book in the young Erlendur series by Arnaldur Indridason. Set about five years after Reykjavik Nights our detective is now divorced and estranged from his young family. His desire to investigate missing people is growing as […]
UK Publishing Date: 9 Jul 2015. 304 pages. There has been a fashion recently for revisiting the lives of our favourite detectives at an early point in their career. Successful television adaptations of Endeavour (early Inspector Morse) and Young Montalbano have proved that there is an appetite for this type […]
I rarely read spy novels. I suspect I’ve been put off the genre by the overly complicated plots of the Le Carré books. The type where you get bogged down and forget who everyone is and what they are trying to do. Exposure is different. Set in 1960s London it […]
UK Publishing Date: 30/07/2015. 354 Pages. In a Dark, Dark Wood is the debut from Ruth Ware. It is a modern day Agatha Christie style crime thriller with all the protagonists isolated in a cottage for the weekend. When Nora receives an invitation to a hen party she is quite […]
UK Publication Date: 5 Nov 2015. 288 pages. I’ve never been a huge fan of Tess Gerritsen’s Rizzoli and Isles series so it was a great surprise when I found myself enjoying Playing with Fire, a standalone novel. It is a story of two violinists. One present day, living in […]
UK Publishing Date: 15 Oct 2015. 300 pages. The publishers blurb for this book says that it is a “gripping psychological thriller for fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train” and while that might be true to an extent, I think that I actually preferred this book […]
UK Publishing Date: 1 Sept 2015. 234 pages. “Hanover House” is a digital prequel to a new suspense series by Brenda Novak. At 234 pages it is described as a novella to set the scene for the rest of the Hanover House chronicles. As a teen Evelyn was terrorized by […]
UK Publishing Date: 3rd Sept 2015. 320 pages. The Blackthorn Key is a great book aimed at tweens and teens but deserves a much wider readership. Christopher is an apprentice apothecary in 1665 London. When his master is suddenly murdered it falls to Christopher and his young friend Tom to […]
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