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White Dog – Peter Temple
‘Her name was Sarah Longmore and she was charged with murdering her former lover.’ When Jack Irish is asked to look into Sarah Longmore’s defence, he’s more than happy to oblige. After all, whenever...
View ArticleNiceville by Carsten Stroud
Pacy American Crime-Horror – a relentless page-turner. A ten-year old boy – Rainey Teague – disappears in broad daylight. One minute he’s looking at a mirror in the Niceville pawn shop window, the next...
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NYPD Red by James Patterson & Marshall Karp
The Chameleon blends in; totally. On the film-set of his life, he is the Latino extra in the busboy’s uniform, or one of the cameramen, or the old man extra in the protest march holding the placard, or...
View ArticleSpeaking from Among the Bones,by Alan Bradley (Orion Books)
Lemony Snicket meets Midsomer Murders This takes the biscuit. We know that a new sleuth has to be based in a previously unused location and/or historical period, be subject to some interesting flaw in...
View ArticleThe Chosen Dead by M.R.Hall
Big Bad Pharma and the Krek Waiters Peak Bristle This is seriously scary stuff – but here’s a thing: author abandons sleuth’s defining flaw. I read the first of M.R.Hall’s series about the...
View ArticleDandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses by Catriona McPherson
Silly stuff – and a criminal waste of talent. Sourpuss that I am, I loathe arch even more than cute. Catriona McPherson has loads going for her. She’s steeped herself in period lingo, and Dandy Gilver...
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The Asylum by Johan Theorin
A slow-burning, Swedish psychological thriller that leaves you chilled to the bone. Jan applies for a job at the Dell Nursery, but this is not any ordinary nursery. The Dell Nursery is attached to St...
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Natural Causes by James Oswald
The first in the DI McLean series: intriguing, moderately paced and with a tinge of the supernatural. Edinburgh: A young girl’s mutilated body is discovered in a sealed room on the outskirts of the...
View ArticleBelow the Thunder by Robin Duval
Slow-burning tale of international conspiracy, self-discovery and love The hand-out by Matador books sets out the story quite succinctly as follows: Fortyish professor Bryn Williams enjoys the simple...
View ArticleThe Potters Field by Andrea Camilleri
Captivating murder mystery set in Sicily. Great characterisation and sparkling dialogue. The hand-out by Mantle publishers sets the scene: While Vigàta (Sicily) is wracked by storms, Inspector...
View ArticleCrocodile Tears by Mark O’Sullivan (Transworld Ireland)
As Dublin braces itself for a blizzard, a wealthy property developer is found murdered. So far Mark O’Sullivan is best known as a writer for young adults, but that’s going to change. This is a rich...
View ArticleThe Killing House by Chris Mooney; too complicated by half.
Plot 1: a child abducted years ago – super-creepy kidnapper murders parents. Plot 2: ace escapologist/wronged FBI most-wanted pursues kidnapper. Plot 3: FBI master-mind pursues pursuer. Chris Mooney...
View ArticleTuesday’s Gone by Nicci French
A man’s naked body is discovered in the flat of a woman too mentally disordered to tell the police who he is or how he got there. A cool, sophisticated and supremely competent investigation from...
View ArticleHell to Pay by George P Pelecanos
Gripping US street-crime noir-thriller set in Washington DC. Multi-layered novel of violence and despair – with dreams of a better future shattered at every turn. Orion fiction blurb sets the scene:...
View ArticleTHE ANDALUCIAN FRIEND – Alexander Söderberg.
At the centre of a convoluted tale of drug gang intrigue lies the main character of Sophie Brinkmann, a beautiful Stockholm nurse, widowed, with a teenaged son. Her current patient, Spaniard Hector...
View ArticleNever Coming Back by Tim Weaver
Tense, dramatic plot with many pacy twists and turns to keep the reader guessing right up to the end. David Raker finds missing persons – he never gives up, that’s his motivation – but when he takes on...
View ArticleTHE KILL LIST – Frederick Forsyth
As current as drone strikes and flying cameras at 60,000 feet, as precise as Day of the Jackal, with chronological events unfolding like tomorrow’s headlines, this is another gripping Forsyth winner....
View ArticlePoirot’s Last Gasp
On November 13th 2013 David Suchet brought 25 years of stylish telly to a close. Agatha’s Christie’s Belgian sleuth made his first print appearance in 1920 (The Mysterious Affair at Styles) and his...
View ArticleAlmost Love by Christina James
This is the second book in the DI Yates crime thriller series set in Spalding. Dame Claudia McRae, a famous archaeologist in the latter stages of her life, has disappeared without a trace (unless you...
View ArticleBarcelona Shadows by Marc Pastor
When the blood-drained body of One Eye is found in the filth that is the streets of Barcelona, the locals begin to panic as they believe that darker forces are at work. Rumours of vampires, child...
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