Review Archive
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The Funeral Owl
Philip Dryden is now editor of The Crow newspaper – and finds himself hurtling around the Fens covering murders, lethal alcohol, the disappearance of a teenager and the theft of metal which has dangerous consequences.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by Sharon Wheeler
Touching Distance
DS Jimmy Suttle's wife has left him and gone back to Portsmouth. So he throws himself into a high-profile murder enquiry which bears all the hallmarks of a professional hit.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by Sharon Wheeler
Eleven Days
DI Carrigan and DS Miller are assigned to investigate a fire that has gutted a small West London convent. The bodies of all ten nuns are found inside, apparently willing victims as they have made no attempt to escape. Then an eleventh body is discovered and what began as a fatal mystery becomes a full-scale murder.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by John Cleal
The Backs
Unorthodox Cambridge DC Gary Goodhew stops at a roadblock for a burning car and finds a dead man tied to a tree with wire. A shoplifter is arrested in Leeds, a paramedic attacked at a murder scene. These incidents tie into a complicated web of sex, student prostitution and killing.
Reviewed on 14 December 2013 by John Cleal
Lost Worlds
Calum Challenger is in search of the Almasti, a creature unrecognised by science which is believed to live in the wilds of the Caucasus mountains. With the help of a motley bunch of allies, he goes up against a shadowy corporation in a race to find them first.
Reviewed on 14 December 2013 by Linda Wilson
The Keeper
When a missing person enquiry turns into a murder hunt, DI Sean Corrigan is certain that there’s a serial abductor is at work and it's only a matter of time before another woman turns up dead.
Reviewed on 14 December 2013 by Linda Wilson
Morning Frost
Denton is its usual hotbed of crime and this time it comes with added body parts, as a farmer ploughing his fields soon discovers. On top of that, DS Jack Frost has to cope with shootings and the death of his wife.
Reviewed on 14 December 2013 by Linda Wilson
The City of Strangers
Detective Sergeant Stefan Gillespie is sent to New York on what appears to be a simple mission to escort a suspected murderer back to Ireland. It turns out to be far from simple and highly dangerous.
Reviewed on 14 December 2013 by Arnold Taylor
The Cambodian Book of the Dead
German detective Maier, an ex-journalist with experience in the Far East, is sent to Cambodia to arrange the return of the heir to a fortune.
Reviewed on 14 December 2013 by Chris Roberts
I Am Max Lamm
Max Lamm, a young man disgraced in New York, is sheltering in London but when he kills a Pakistani youth he sets off a series of riots.
Reviewed on 14 December 2013 by Chris Roberts
The Kennedy Conspiracy
Who killed John F Kennedy? A British journalist was there and saw it happen. He subsequently overhears something that put his own life and that of others in danger. The truth must come out.
Reviewed on 14 December 2013 by Sylvia Maughan
Where the Devil Can't Go
Janusz Kiszka, unofficial ‘fixer’ for East London’s Polish community, finds himself caught in a web of politics, murder, religion and drugs when he sets out to investigate the disappearance of a young girl.
Reviewed on 14 December 2013 by John Cleal
