Review Archive
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A Sliver of Darkness
Eleven short stories, all with a macabre twist, some obvious, some harder to anticipate.
Reviewed on 17 December 2022 by Linda Wilson
Silverweed Road
Silverweed Road is home to a collection of macabre incidents, disappearances, and murders that are told in a series of loosely linked short stories.
Reviewed on 17 December 2022 by Linda Wilson
Ghosts from the Library
An anthology of little-known short stories from the Golden Age combines crime fiction and hints of the supernatural and provides concise biographies of each of the authors.
Reviewed on 17 December 2022 by Linda Wilson
The Spy at the Window
The year is 1939 and Justice Jones now has to contend both with evacuated boys and the possibility of spies in their midst at Highbury House Boarding School for the Daughters of Gentlefolk.
Reviewed on 17 December 2022 by Linda Wilson
Dead Lucky
When popular influencer Xavier Bailey seems to have been murdered by a masked attacker in full view of his adoring fans online, everyone thinks it’s one of his pranks. But then the video is taken down and the reality sinks in. Xav really is dead.
Reviewed on 12 November 2022 by Linda Wilson
Manhunter
Josh Bowman is recruited from the SAS into a shadowy branch of the British military and promptly thrown in at the deep end in an operation to prevent a Russian-backed coup in the war-torn African state of Karatandu.
Reviewed on 12 November 2022 by Linda Wilson
Gun Honey
Joanna Tan – known as Gun Honey – will sell and deliver weapons to whoever can pay her price but when what should have been a simple job turns into a messy and lethal prison riot, she’s forced to work for the US government to track down the escaped prisoner at the heart of it all.
Reviewed on 12 November 2022 by Linda Wilson
The Botanist
When a killer known as The Botanist starts targeting the sort of people the public love to hate, it’s a job for DS Washington Poe and civilian analyst Tilly Bradshaw. But Poe has to juggle this investigation with the need to save their friend pathologist Estelle Doyle from a murder charge.
Reviewed on 12 November 2022 by Linda Wilson
Survive to Fight
Former soldier Matt Mason, now training an anti-poaching force in Kenya, goes up against ivory traders, terrifying jihadists, and hostage takers in a race to save his daughter, kidnapped from a yacht that fell victim to pirates in the Red Sea.
Reviewed on 12 November 2022 by Linda Wilson
Statue for Jacob
Lawyer Kiah Harmon takes on a case to recover a 200-year-old debt from the US Government. With the addition of interest, the liability could amount to hundreds of billions, so resistance is expected to be fierce.
Reviewed on 12 November 2022 by Chris Roberts
Just Thieves
Rick and Frank are recovering addicts and thieves who steal to order and make great efforts to avoid mistakes, but competition for a particular item produces pressures that they did not foresee.
Reviewed on 12 November 2022 by Chris Roberts
Tally Stick
A family recently arrived in New Zealand disappears. Thirty years later the remains of one of them is found, but the discovery just raises more questions.
Reviewed on 12 November 2022 by Chris Roberts
