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Here’s the deal. Penguin and Specsavers ask crime fans ‘in the twitter community’ (Wot???) to ‘contribute plot devices’. Three established crime writers are then asked to build a short story around...
View ArticleL.A.Noir – John Buntin
This is history, not fiction, but it’s just as compelling – and sometimes it stretches the honest reader’s credulity in ways no story-teller could get away with. Buntin organizes his account of...
View ArticleSherlock Holmes: The Stuff of Nightmares – James Lovegrove
A giant armoured figure is stalking the East End in pursuit of evil-doers. Holmes has a rival of a very different stamp. As bombs explode ever closer to the monarch herself, the mysterious Baron...
View ArticleThicker Than Water – Kerry Wilkinson (Pan Macmillan)
A boy disappears from the house where he he has been baby-sitting, leaving the house and the baby unharmed. His body is found in the bath-tub of a supermarket assistant – and soon afterwards she too...
View ArticleHit Me – Lawrence Block
Bit surprised to find that LB has left only one set of dabs on Mean Streets – and wasn’t highly rated. I have a weakness for wisecracks, and though this is only middling Block, it’s a fair introduction...
View ArticleAdrian McKinty – In the morning I’ll be gone
Sean Duffy returns in the third outing in the war torn Norn Iron, still whistling Tom Waits songs under his breath at a different beat to everyone else. Sean Duffy’s got nothing. So when MI5 come...
View ArticleAN OFFICER and a SPY – Robert Harris
“Death to the Jew” A beautifully written story of detection and cover-ups, based on the true and scandalous events of 1895 in the French Army when Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of spying...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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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...
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