Linda Wilson
Books reviewed by Linda Wilson
Rabbit Hole
There’s no shortage of suspects when a death occurs on an acute psychiatric ward, but luckily DC Alice Armitage is there to investigate. The only problem is that Alice is a patient there herself.
Reviewed on 29 April 2023 by Linda Wilson
The Prison Healer
Kiva Meridan is an inmate in the notorious prison fortress of Zalindov. When the Rebel Queen is brought to Zalindov to stand Trial by Ordeal, it becomes Kiva’s job as a healer to keep her alive long enough to enter the Trials.
Reviewed on 29 April 2023 by Linda Wilson
The Thief
When Eugenides’ boasting lands him in prison, the only way out is to put his thieving talents to use and steal a legendary object. The question is not whether he can succeed, but whether he can succeed and stay alive.
Reviewed on 29 April 2023 by Linda Wilson
The Fever of the World
The death of a local businessman and a haunted holiday cottage collide in another investigation for diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins set in the beautiful, mysterious Wye Valley.
Reviewed on 29 April 2023 by Linda Wilson
The Shadowing
After her sister's death in a Nottinghamshire workhouse, Hester Goodwin is sent to investigate, but soon learns that sinister Southwell holds more questions than answers.
Reviewed on 29 April 2023 by Linda Wilson
Yesterday's Spy
SIS spy Harry Tower flies to Tehran when he hears his journalist son Sean is in trouble.
Reviewed on 29 April 2023 by Linda Wilson
Dalziel and Pascoe Hunt the Christmas Killer & Other Stories
Eleven intriguing short stories by the late Reginald Hill, with a forward by Val McDermid.
Reviewed on 17 December 2022 by Linda Wilson
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
The Bone Code
A 15-year-old unsolved mystery returns to haunt forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan when two mutilated bodies are washed ashore in a storm, crammed into a medical waste container, fingers and teeth removed to hide their identities.
Reviewed on 30 September 2022 by Linda Wilson
Good Cop, Bad Cop
Chris Sketty. Hero cop or cold-blooded murderer? Telling his own story to the husband of a woman killed in a terrorist atrocity, Sketty does his best to paint himself as the former, but Dr Ralph Teller thinks Sketty is holding back the truth.
Reviewed on 30 September 2022 by Linda Wilson
Survive the Night
When Charlie Jordan decides she can’t stand being in college any longer and must go home, she accepts a lift from a stranger. But Charlie soon starts to realise that she might have made a very dangerous mistake …
Reviewed on 30 September 2022 by Linda Wilson
Target Zero
Close personal protection specialist Mickey Bale is tasked by MI5 with getting close to a Russian oligarch suspected of involvement in a deadly terror plot.
Reviewed on 30 September 2022 by Linda Wilson
Double Or Nothing
James Bond is missing, presumed dead or in enemy hands, so it falls to a new generation of Double O operatives to save the world.
Reviewed on 30 September 2022 by Linda Wilson
Cave Diver
When disgraced underwater cave explorer Rob Nash is offered is a lucrative TV contract on a documentary being made in a cave in a remote area of Papua New Guinea, it sounds too good to be true. But Nash doesn’t care. He needs to do something to repair his damaged finances and even more damaged reputation.
Reviewed on 20 August 2022 by Linda Wilson
The Killing Choice
A father is forced to make an impossible choice – either save himself and trust that their attacker won’t kill his daughter or stay and be killed. Karl Suleman makes his choice and must live with the consequences.
Reviewed on 20 August 2022 by Linda Wilson
The Junction
Lucas Jones vanished 12 years ago. Now he’s back. But he hasn’t aged by even a day. He’s still 11 years old.
Reviewed on 20 August 2022 by Linda Wilson
Fire With Fire
Sisters Dani and Eden Rivera have been trained to follow in their parents’ footsteps keeping humanity safe from dragons, but all that changes for Dani when she meets one for the first time.
Reviewed on 20 August 2022 by Linda Wilson
Seventeen
Seventeen worked his way up to the top of a very dangerous profession, but he never had to face his predecessor. To stay at the top of his game, that must change.
Reviewed on 20 August 2022 by Linda Wilson
The Search Party
When 16-year-old Sadie Saunders still hasn’t been found, her five friends decide to take matters into their own hands and carry out a search of a local woodland. But not all of them will leave the woods alive.
Reviewed on 23 July 2022 by Linda Wilson
Skin Taker
When a meteorite strike wipes out a huge area of forest, the clans must come together to survive, but unless a way can be found to bring the First Tree back to life, they are all doomed.
Reviewed on 22 July 2022 by Linda Wilson
Deadlock
A spate of deaths amongst the elderly and vulnerable in Bob Skinner’s home village of Gullane are at first written off as accidental and unconnected, but a young police officer isn’t so sure. On top of this, new Chief Constable Neil McIlhenny has a very delicate murder investigation on his hands, one that threatens to ruffle quite a few feathers.
Reviewed on 22 July 2022 by Linda Wilson
The Dark
A terrorist group is targeting women and all that they hold dear. When former detective Lacey Flint is in the right place at the right time to save a baby, their attention turns to her …
Reviewed on 22 July 2022 by Linda Wilson
The Driver
John Milton is doing his best to atone for the high body count he left behind in his work for the British government. So when a woman he drives to a party disappears, Milton can’t just forget her, even if getting involved risks bringing him to the notice of the people he’s running from.
Reviewed on 22 July 2022 by Linda Wilson
The Ghost in the Garden
When one of Justice Jones’ dorm mates disappears, she’s determined to do some sleuthing and enlists the help of her friends to track down the missing girl.
Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by Linda Wilson
The Butcher of Berner Street
Leo Stanhope receives an anonymous letter luring him to a disreputable penny gaff with the promise of a murder only to find it is a calculating publicity stunt. Then the perpetrator of the stunt is found dead but things are not a simple as Leo first believes.
Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by Linda Wilson
All That Lives
With a new drug stalking the streets, his girlfriend in a coma, and a series of dead bodies being dug up in inconvenient places, the last thing DI Tony McLean wants to do is pander to his boss’ whims especially when those whims involve his old foe, the sinister Mrs Saifre.
Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by Linda Wilson
The Diamond Eye
June 1941. A young woman joins the Red Army and becomes its most successful female sniper, with 309 confirmed kills. This is her story.
Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by Linda Wilson
Amongst Our Weapons
Mysterious deaths and even more mysterious secret societies are all in a day’s work for London copper and magical practitioner, Peter Grant. But this is the first time he’s had to go up against an angel.
Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by Linda Wilson
Playing Nice
When a total stranger informs Pete Riley that the child he’s brought up as his own for the past two years isn’t his biological son, his world is in danger of falling apart. But Pete knows he and his wife can work this out with the other couple if only they all play nicely. Or at least he thinks they can …
Reviewed on 30 April 2022 by Linda Wilson
Hide and Secrets
Cat’s father is missing, presumed dead. When a man phones her with the news that her father is alive, Cat’s world is turned upside-down, and she’s determined to find him, despite her mother’s disbelief and opposition.
Reviewed on 30 April 2022 by Linda Wilson
State of Terror
A series of terrorist attacks spark off a hunt for the forces behind a global conspiracy, pitting newly appointed US Secretary of State Ellen Adams against powerful opposition, both at home and abroad.
Reviewed on 30 April 2022 by Linda Wilson
Dark Horse
Former black ops specialist Evan Smoak – Orphan X, now the Nowhere Man – takes on a powerful drug cartel to rescue the teenage daughter of one of their bitterest rivals.
Reviewed on 30 April 2022 by Linda Wilson
The Killing Kind
Barrister Ingrid Lewis is certain someone wants her dead. John Webster, given a two-year suspended sentence for stalking and harassing Ingrid, claims not to be involved and insists he’s the only person who can help her uncover the truth.
Reviewed on 30 April 2022 by Linda Wilson
Hollowpox
A strange disease is attacking wunimals in Nevermoor, turning the usual peaceful anthropomorphic creatures into raging beasts, a danger to themselves and others. As the Hollowpox, as it becomes known, spreads, young wundersmith Morrigan Crow starts to take matters into her own hands.
Reviewed on 26 March 2022 by Linda Wilson
Monday, Monday
An operation to bust a gang of petty thieves turns into a hunt for a possible werewolf in the latest outing for the Met’s most specialised policing unit, the Folly.
Reviewed on 26 March 2022 by Linda Wilson
Rivers of London
When rookie London copper Peter Grant talks to a material witness to a murder in Covent Garden, he’s not expecting to find himself interviewing a ghost, and he certainly doesn’t expect anyone to believe him, but then Peter’s career takes a sharp turn in an unexpected direction.
Reviewed on 26 March 2022 by Linda Wilson
One Way Street
Homeless veteran Jimmy Mullan doesn’t have many friends, so when one of them goes missing, Jimmy doesn’t sit around doing nothing, he goes looking for young Deano.
Reviewed on 26 March 2022 by Linda Wilson
All Or Nothing
After years of not knowing what really happened, ex-special forces soldier Alex Abbott finally has a credible lead to the truth about his brother’s death when they were both children, a lead that takes him to a dangerous undercover role amongst some very nasty people.
Reviewed on 26 March 2022 by Linda Wilson
Body Language
When mortuary assistant Cassie Raven is faced with the prospect of helping with the post-mortem on her former teacher, Mrs Edwards, Cassie knows she owes it to the woman to make sure she’s looked after, even in death. What she’s not expecting is to end up on the trail of a murderer.
Reviewed on 19 February 2022 by Linda Wilson
The Dying Squad
The last thing DI Joe Lazarus expects to find when he breaks into a deserted farmhouse used a safe house by a county lines drug gang is his own dead body. Being told to solve his own murder isn’t how he expects to spend his time in the afterlife, either, but it’s better than doing nothing.
Reviewed on 19 February 2022 by Linda Wilson
A Three Dog Problem
When one of the Queen’s paintings turns up in an unexpected place, her secretary Rozie Oshodi is tasked with following its trail from Buckingham Palace to a Royal naval exhibition in Portsmouth. At first this seems to be just a simple investigation, then Rozie starts wading through some very murky waters.
Reviewed on 19 February 2022 by Linda Wilson
Nowhere to Run
DC Con Fairchild is on compassionate leave, holed up in a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but that doesn’t stop her getting drawn back into her old job when she tries to help a young woman she suspects of having been trafficked into drug-running and prostitution.
Reviewed on 19 February 2022 by Linda Wilson
Dead Man's Grave
When the head of one of Scotland’s most notorious crime families is found brutally murdered, the police are bound to be in for a rough ride, as DS Max Craigie and DC Janie Calder soon discover. And the criminals aren’t the only ones they’re got to watch …
Reviewed on 19 February 2022 by Linda Wilson
Turf Wars
When a new drug lord is determined to make their mark on the tough Seine-Saint-Denis district of Paris, it’s not long before the area is on the verge of an all out war between the gangs and the police. Against that volatile backdrop, Capitaine Coste and his team have a murder to solve.
Reviewed on 22 January 2022 by Linda Wilson
Bruno's Challenge & other Dordogne Tales
Fourteen short stories featuring Bruno, Chief of Police, set in the heartland of France’s Dordogne region.
Reviewed on 22 January 2022 by Linda Wilson
The Cutting Room
When Rilke is called to a house clearance in a respectable Glasgow suburb, he immediately knows he’s sitting on a goldmine, but the auction job turns out to have a darker side.
Reviewed on 22 January 2022 by Linda Wilson
The Second Cut
When Glasgow auctioneer Rilke’s old friend Jojo is found dead in a doorway, the police don’t seem that interested, but unlike them, Rilke isn’t quite so ready to write off Jojo’s death as an unfortunate by-product of a dissolute lifestyle.
Reviewed on 22 January 2022 by Linda Wilson
The Boyband Murder Mystery
When the frontman of boyband phenomenon Half Light is arrested on suspicion of murdering his best friend, his army of fans are determined to prove his innocence.
Reviewed on 22 January 2022 by Linda Wilson
A Line to Kill
Author Anthony Horowitz and his collaborator, former detective Daniel Hawthorne are invited to a newly set-up literary festival on the island of Alderney but this is quickly derailed by the murder of a wealthy islander.
Reviewed on 27 November 2021 by Linda Wilson
Tales from the Folly
A collection of short stories and shorter snippets set in the expanded universe of the Folly, home to London’s smallest and most specialist branch of the Metropolitan police.
Reviewed on 27 November 2021 by Linda Wilson
The Body Falls
When the body of a cyclist drops from a muddy bank onto her friend’s Jeep in the middle of a storm, local solicitor Ben (Benedicta) O’Keefe is caught up in a dangerous web in a town cut off by rising flood waters.
Reviewed on 27 November 2021 by Linda Wilson
The Roots of Evil
When two men, one a serving police officer, the other retired from the force, are shot dead and left in a car outside Edinburgh’s divisional office, the investigating team has very little to go on at first and matters quickly become both complicated and dangerous.
Reviewed on 27 November 2021 by Linda Wilson
The Smuggler's Secret
When Justice Jones takes part in a new school initiative to involve pupils with the local community, she doesn’t expect to end up with a suspicious death to solve. But then Justice attracts mysteries the way flowers attract bees.
Reviewed on 27 November 2021 by Linda Wilson
Wishyouwas: the tiny guardian of lost letters
Penny Black lives with her uncle in a London post office. Her lonely existence changes dramatically when she encounters a funny, courageous, talkative little creature trying to run off with a letter. This catapults her into the secretive lives of the Sorters, the tiny guardians of lost letters.
Reviewed on 27 November 2021 by Linda Wilson
Hour of the Assassin
Security consultant Nick Averose has been set up to take the fall for a crime he didn’t commit. At the same time, Senator Sam McDonough is about to embark on a bid for the presidency and his backer is determined that nothing – and no one – is going to stand in their way.
Reviewed on 23 October 2021 by Linda Wilson
Robert B. Parker's Someone to Watch Over Me
Boston PI Spenser and his latest apprentice, Matty Sullivan, go up against a billionaire with very unsavoury habits and some equally unsavoury friends to take down a network of men – and a woman – who abuse young girls.
Reviewed on 23 October 2021 by Linda Wilson
The Cheerleaders
Monica has never believed that her sister committed suicide, and she’s equally certain that the truth has never been told about a double murder and a car crash that shocked her home town to its core five years ago.
Reviewed on 23 October 2021 by Linda Wilson
Trial Under Fire
A prequel to the Charlie Fox series takes Charlie back to the tour of duty in Afghanistan that earned her the chance to undergo the gruelling Special Forces Selection process.
Reviewed on 23 October 2021 by Linda Wilson
Break Out
With two hurricanes on collision course, the staff of Ravenhill maximum security prison decide to evacuate, leaving the inmates to fend for themselves. But in the middle of a riot and a superstorm, all ex-cop Jack Constantine wants is revenge.
Reviewed on 25 September 2021 by Linda Wilson
Eight Pieces of Silva
Eighteen-year-old Silva is meant to be looking after her 16-year-old stepsister Becks while their parents are on a belated honeymoon to Japan, but when Silva doesn’t come home, Becks decides to check out her bedroom and then her worries really kick off.
Reviewed on 25 September 2021 by Linda Wilson
Passenger 23
Police psychologist Martin Schwartz lost his wife and son five years ago on a cruise. When someone tells him there was more to their disappearance than a tragic accident, he has to find out more.
Reviewed on 25 September 2021 by Linda Wilson
Run For Cover
Ex-Navy Seal Michael Gannon insists on helping a friend and former colleague to investigate the murder of his brother by a sniper in a national park.
Reviewed on 25 September 2021 by Linda Wilson
Forever Ends on Friday
Jamal and Q used to be best friends until something came between them. When Q dies, an experimental procedure gives Jamal gives an unexpected chance to put things right between them. But how can he tell his friend that not only is he dead, but that he will also soon die again?
Reviewed on 21 August 2021 by Linda Wilson
Nemesis
Metropolitan police close protection officer Mickey Bale is out for revenge on the gang boss ultimately responsible for his sister’s death from a drug overdose.
Reviewed on 21 August 2021 by Linda Wilson
The Cutting Place
A dismembered body found in the mud of the Thames foreshore leads DS Maeve Kerrigan into the more rarefied air of the exclusive and expensive Chiron Club in her search for a killer.
Reviewed on 21 August 2021 by Linda Wilson
Win
The death of a reclusive hoarder triggers a reappraisal of an FBI cold case involving the abduction of an heiress and the theft of two valuable paintings. Fresh evidence leads the investigators to the door of the rich, violent, amoral Win.
Reviewed on 21 August 2021 by Linda Wilson
Adler
Jane Eyre, Irene Adler and Lady Havisham team up to fight a dark threat to London in a gloriously drawn steampunk romp.
Reviewed on 25 July 2021 by Linda Wilson
Body Work
When a BMW turns into a watery grave for its owner, river goddess Beverley Brook tips off copper Peter Grant that there might be more to this than just an accident and sets him on a collision course with a murderous car.
Reviewed on 25 July 2021 by Linda Wilson
Nightshade
Former teenage spy Alex Rider is dragged out of retirement by MI6 for one more operation and forced to go up against the most dangerous opponents he has ever faced – Nightshade, a criminal organisation that uses child operatives trained as assassins.
Reviewed on 24 July 2021 by Linda Wilson
The Old Guard: Force Multiplied
The Old Guard must go up against someone from their past. Someone else who can’t die. And just to complicate things further, Andy is having a rather large meltdown.
Reviewed on 24 July 2021 by Linda Wilson
Capture or Kill
A newly-formed black ops team, drawn from MI5 surveillance officers, must work against the clock to stop a terrorist attack.
Reviewed on 24 July 2021 by Linda Wilson
Dead Ground
DS Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw of the National Crime Agency are called into to investigate a murder at a pop-up brothel and its connections to an important summit being held nearby.
Reviewed on 25 June 2021 by Linda Wilson
I Spy
Former soldier and intelligence officer Tom Marcus tells the inside story of his time in an MI5 surveillance team.
Reviewed on 25 June 2021 by Linda Wilson
More Than Just a Pretty Face
Danyal Jilani is a constant source of disappointment to his father. Being funny and drop dead gorgeous isn’t likely to lead to a good job, but academic success isn’t Danyal’s strong point, so when he’s unwillingly thrust into an academic championship, life is going to get problematic.
Reviewed on 25 June 2021 by Linda Wilson
The President's Daughter
US President Matthew Keating isn’t afraid of taking hard decisions, but when the consequences of those decisions threaten his family, it gets very personal indeed.
Reviewed on 25 June 2021 by Linda Wilson
Secret Weapon
Seven short stories featuring teenage spy Alex Rider.
Reviewed on 22 May 2021 by Linda Wilson
Slow Burn
Spider Shepherd is taxed with bringing a former jihadists wife and son back to the UK as the price for his cooperation with the security services but, as ever, there are added complications.
Reviewed on 22 May 2021 by Linda Wilson
The Coldest Case
With the ever-present danger of forest fires adding to his workload, Bruno, Chief of Police, still finds time to help investigate a cold case that has haunted his friend J-J throughout his career.
Reviewed on 22 May 2021 by Linda Wilson
What Abigail Did That Summer
While magician and copper Peter Grant is off chasing unicorns and missing children, his 13-year-old cousin Abigail has some missing kids of her own to investigate, with the help of a bunch of talking – and very organised – foxes.
Reviewed on 22 May 2021 by Linda Wilson
Knife Edge
Seven journalists are murdered on a single day in London. They all worked for the same news agency. The question in everyone’s mind is who will be targeted next. It’s not a happy thought for Famie Madden, or her colleagues, but that doesn’t stop them when a possible lead turns up.
Reviewed on 22 May 2021 by Linda Wilson
Liar, Liar
When a child is injured falling from a block of flats, DS Grace Allendale has a strong feeling that it wasn’t, as the parents claim, an accident. But proving who is lying and why isn’t an easy task.
Reviewed on 24 April 2021 by Linda Wilson
Nighthawking
The discovery of a young woman’s body in a shallow grave leads DS Adam Tyler into the murky world of the nighthawks – metal detectorists who aren’t too fussy about whether they have permission for their investigations.
Reviewed on 24 April 2021 by Linda Wilson
Take Me Home
When Harper, a struggling photojournalist, finds a lost child in a shop, she doesn’t anticipate that finding the child’s parents will turn out to be quite so difficult.
Reviewed on 24 April 2021 by Linda Wilson
The Strangeworlds Travel Agency
When Flick Hudson visits the Strangeworlds Travel Agency, she wasn’t expecting to learn that magic is real. She also wasn’t expecting the fate of her own world to land on her shoulders.
Reviewed on 24 April 2021 by Linda Wilson
What Will Burn
Former DCI Tony McLean has been busted back down to DI, but he’s still the go-to guy when something odd happens in Edinburgh, and this time it’s an old woman beaten to death and then burned in her remote cottage. And that’s only the start of things …
Reviewed on 13 March 2021 by Linda Wilson
Stop at Nothing
When a plan crashes in the sea off a remote island in the Bahamas, diving instructor Michael Gannon ends up in possession of a very dangerous secret and on the run from some ruthless enemies.
Reviewed on 13 March 2021 by Linda Wilson
Break the Fall
Audrey Rey is a young gymnast with her sights set on the Olympic Games in Tokyo. But her back injury is a complicating factor and then the ultimate shock rocks the team when one of the girls fails a drugs test and their coach is accused of sexual misconduct.
Reviewed on 13 March 2021 by Linda Wilson
The Old Guard: Opening Fire
A team of mercenaries hide a huge secret, that of apparent immortality. They don’t understand it and don’t necessarily want it, but someone else does. And that someone is determined to get what they want at any cost.
Reviewed on 13 March 2021 by Linda Wilson
Watching From the Dark
When Aidan Poole logs onto Skype to talk to his girlfriend, he gets a nasty shock. Someone is in the flat with her, but she doesn’t seem to know it. And she’s in danger.
Reviewed on 16 January 2021 by Linda Wilson
Are You Watching?
Jess is out to catch a killer. The only problem is that the killer might catch her first.
Reviewed on 16 January 2021 by Linda Wilson
Kill a Stranger
Matt comes home from a night out with friends to find his girlfriend missing and a dead woman’s body in their bed. The nightmare gets worse when he’s told that Kate will die if he involves the police. To get Kate back, Matt has to do the unthinkable. He has to kill a stranger.
Reviewed on 16 January 2021 by Linda Wilson
Alex Rider: The Graphic Novel Collection
The first five Alex Rider books in graphic novel format plunge the reluctant teenage spy into a variety of dangerous missions.
Reviewed on 19 December 2020 by Linda Wilson
Angola
Tough anti-hero Tyler Cross accepts a job in the ultimate profit-making prison, Angola. His chances of getting out again don’t look good, but Tyler doesn’t give up easily.
Reviewed on 19 December 2020 by Linda Wilson
Lost
Naval officer Captain Harry Peterson is caught up in a terrorist bomb blast and goes missing for three days. Psychologist August Bloom is called in by Peterson’s girlfriend to investigate. When he’s found, he’s lost all memory of the last few years.
Reviewed on 19 December 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Windsor Knot
When a visitor to Windsor Castle is found dead in suspicious circumstances, everyone hopes the investigation can be wrapped up before it hits the press. But when the police and MI5 seem no nearer to a solution, the Queen has to take time out of her day job to make some enquiries of her own.
Reviewed on 19 December 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Fey and the Furious
Peter Grant is roped into the fast, dangerous world of illegal street racing, and thrust into a world he has absolutely no desire to visit again.
Reviewed on 19 December 2020 by Linda Wilson
Never Say Die
Alex Rider, traumatised by the murder of his best friend and guardian, is determined to learn more about her death, even if his quest might extinguish the tiny flicker of hope kindled by an inexplicable email.
Reviewed on 21 November 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Chemical Reaction
Chemical expert Dr Jaq Silver is in desperate need of some income. She’s got debts mounting up and no easy way of paying them off, so when she gets a job offer that involves a trip to China, beggars can’t be choosers.
Reviewed on 21 November 2020 by Linda Wilson
Zero 22
Despite an ambush that leaves Danny Black the only survivor of an SAS unit, it’s not long before he’s deployed again, this time to assist in the assassination of the man ultimately responsible for the attack that left so many of his teammates dead.
Reviewed on 21 November 2020 by Linda Wilson
Scar Tissue
When former special services operative Alex Abbott’s son goes missing, he’s determined to do what he can to help, even if it means walking into a trap.
Reviewed on 21 November 2020 by Linda Wilson
Boy Queen
When Robin Cooper’s world falls apart after he’s rejected by the drama school he’s desperate to get into, he finds unexpected happiness in glitter, glamour and the world of drag.
Reviewed on 31 October 2020 by Linda Wilson
Expiry Date
When a woman’s body is discovered during building works, supermarket worker Bea Jordan is worried that it might be one of her customers who she hasn’t seen for a few weeks. But the body has been there longer than that and proves to be connected to Bea in a very unexpected way.
Reviewed on 31 October 2020 by Linda Wilson
Virgin & Child
When the recently elected Pope Patrick, the first Irish pope, is attacked by a woman in St Peter’s Square, his reaction to this sets in train events that could derail his papacy by playing into the hands of his detractors.
Reviewed on 31 October 2020 by Linda Wilson
From the Shadows
A serial killer is stalking the Scottish glens, leaving mutilated bodies carefully posed with a macabre memento. DI Monica Kennedy needs to track down whoever is responsible before the deaths mount up even further.
Reviewed on 31 October 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Last Wife
After Nina’s death, her best friend Marie steps in to help her grieving husband with two children and a large house, gradually taking over more and more of her friend’s former life. But not everyone thinks that’s a good thing.
Reviewed on 19 September 2020 by Linda Wilson
Fair Warning
When journalist Jack McEvoy finds himself a person of interest in the murder of a woman he dated once, he’s determined to clear his own name, as the police don’t seem to be making any moves in that direction.
Reviewed on 19 September 2020 by Linda Wilson
Point Blanc
Reluctant teenage spy Alex Rider is sent undercover in an exclusive school for the rebellious offspring of some of the world’s richest people to find out what links two unexplained deaths to Point Blanc academy in the Alps.
Reviewed on 19 September 2020 by Linda Wilson
Stormbreaker
Reluctant 14-year-old spy Alex Rider is sent to Cornwall to investigate rich philanthropist Herod Sayle and his plan to install a new generation of computer in every school in the UK. Alex soon realises that there’s a lot more to the Stormbreakers than Sayle is letting on, and with that knowledge comes extreme danger.
Reviewed on 19 September 2020 by Linda Wilson
Magpie Lane
When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford academic goes missing, there are a limited pool of suspects, with the spotlight falling first on her parents and their live-in nanny.
Reviewed on 22 August 2020 by Linda Wilson
No Bad Deed
No good deed goes unpunished, as Cassie Larkin finds out when she stops to help a woman being attacked by the side of the road.
Reviewed on 22 August 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Golden Tresses of the Dead
When a finger is found in her sister’s wedding cake, young sleuth Flavia de Luce is determined to identify its erstwhile owner.
Reviewed on 22 August 2020 by Linda Wilson
Cry Baby
A seven-year-old boy has gone missing while playing with a friend in a wood next to a park, with his mother nearby. A police officer is determined not to have another child’s death on his conscience.
Reviewed on 22 August 2020 by Linda Wilson
Just Watch Me
Master thief Riley Wolfe has his sights set on a prize beyond price, the centrepiece of the Iranian crown jewels, but FBI agent Frank Delgado is determined to stop him.
Reviewed on 31 July 2020 by Linda Wilson
Time For the Dead
Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod takes a much-needed break on Skye, but soon finds herself caught up in an unexpected investigation.
Reviewed on 31 July 2020 by Linda Wilson
Cut to the Bone
Unlikely social media personality Violet Armstrong, famed for barbecuing in a bikini to extol the virtues of eating meat, has disappeared, and feelings are running high amongst a group of animal activists. DI Meg Dalton has the unenviable job of investigating the local abattoir where the missing woman worked.
Reviewed on 31 July 2020 by Linda Wilson
Shed No Tears
When an old murder case is reopened, Cat Kinsella soon develops doubts about the key witness, but when she delves into the past, she’s unprepared for the hornets’ nest she’s just stirred up.
Reviewed on 31 July 2020 by Linda Wilson
Dark Blue Rising
When an unexpected accident brings Tabby to the attention of the authorities for the first time in her life, she loses everything she’s ever known and has to face the unwanted truth that her whole life has been built on a lie.
Reviewed on 31 July 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Curator
When body parts start turning up in Cumbria, National Crime Agency investigators DS Washington Poe and civilian analyst Tilly Bradshaw are called in to make sense of an increasingly complex puzzle.
Reviewed on 04 July 2020 by Linda Wilson
A Conspiracy of Bones
Forensic anthropologist Dr Tempe Brennan is drawn deep into the murky world of conspiracy theorists and child abusers as she tries to unravel the mystery of a faceless corpse.
Reviewed on 04 July 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Haven: Deadfall
Lily is missing. Ollie and the rest of the Haven’s council vow to get her back, no matter what the cost.
Reviewed on 04 July 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Man on the Street
When a homeless man sees the report of a woman’s search for her missing father, he thinks he might have been the only witness to a possible murder. The police don’t seem very interested in what he has to say, but the man’s daughter is desperate for help, so against his better judgment, Jimmy Mullen gets involved.
Reviewed on 04 July 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Reunion
A reunion at a high-end college in the French Riviera threatens to uncover secrets that some former pupils had hoped were long buried.
Reviewed on 04 July 2020 by Linda Wilson
Severed
When a vicar is brutally attacked by his own son in a church service, atheist ex-minister Professor Matt Hunter is asked by the police to advise on whether the teenage boy was involved in devil worship.
Reviewed on 13 June 2020 by Linda Wilson
Becoming Dinah
When her neighbour’s campervan containing his prosthetic leg is stolen, 17-year-old Dinah agrees to join forces with the distraught Ahab to track it down.
Reviewed on 13 June 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Boy From the Woods
When a girl from her grandson’s school disappears, New York lawyer Hester Crimstein agrees to his pleas to make some enquiries. Then there’s a second disappearance, with possible political undertones.
Reviewed on 13 June 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Split
South Georgia is the dream posting for glacier expert Felicity Lloyd, but dreams have a nasty habit of coming at a price.
Reviewed on 13 June 2020 by Linda Wilson
Bones in the River
DC Nick Weston and CSI Grace McColl have to investigate a hit and run and the discovery of the bones of a man in a makeshift grave uncovered by the river Eden against the backdrop of the annual Appleby Fair.
Reviewed on 13 June 2020 by Linda Wilson
To Keep You Safe
Former soldier-turned-teacher Jenni Wales has to decide how far she will go to save one of her pupils when no one else appears to care that the girl is terrified and at risk of abduction.
Reviewed on 23 May 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Never Game
Three victims, each stuck in a deadly locked room scenario. Only one man can help them – Colton Shaw, a man who earns his money from finding missing people, dead or alive.
Reviewed on 23 May 2020 by Linda Wilson
Burnt Island
When a man is horrifically murdered on a remote island in the Scillies, DI Ben Kitto’s boss wants results fast, but even with a relatively small pool of suspects to draw on, the case isn’t an easy one to crack.
Reviewed on 23 May 2020 by Linda Wilson
Sofa Surfer
When 15-year-old Tyler meets a girl at the local lido, he’s only looking to make some money from giving her swimming lessons, but an unlikely friendship grows between them that threatens Tyler’s relationship with his own family.
Reviewed on 23 May 2020 by Linda Wilson
High Fire
A teenager, a dragon and a crooked cop. Life in the Louisiana swamp will never be the same for Squib Moreau when he meets Vern, the last dragon.
Reviewed on 23 May 2020 by Linda Wilson
The History of the SAS
The history of the SAS, told from the inside.
Reviewed on 25 April 2020 by Linda Wilson
One of Us is Next
An ever-escalating game of Truth or Dare brings heartache and danger to the students of Bayview High.
Reviewed on 25 April 2020 by Linda Wilson
Circle of Death
Former SAS operatives John Porter and John Bald are recruited to a deniable op to rescue a British academic accused of spying in Venezuela. It’s not a job they’re keen on, but neither are in any position to refuse.
Reviewed on 25 April 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Black Art of Killing
The death of an old comrade drags former SAS Major Leo Black back into a world he thought he’d left behind.
Reviewed on 25 April 2020 by Linda Wilson
Deep Dark Night
Bounty hunter Lori Anderson is forced to do one last job for shady FBI agent Alex Monroe – take on Chicago crime boss Cabressa in a poker sting and get enough evidence to put him away for good.
Reviewed on 11 April 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Burning Men
A killer is targeting former firefighters who attended a notorious blaze in a London tower block that burnt down whilst construction was in progress. DI Alex Finn and his new sidekick, DC Mattie Paulson, need to work out why the men are being killed.
Reviewed on 11 April 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Driftwood Girls
Oceanographer Dr Cal McGill is down on his luck. The press have turned on him, an old friend has left him an unusual legacy and a woman wants him to find her sister. But no one wants to give him paid work and Cal is fast running out of money …
Reviewed on 11 April 2020 by Linda Wilson
Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow
Morrigan Crow has settled into life in Nevermoor, but there is someone who wants to expose her deepest secret. And then there are the disappearances to contend with …
Reviewed on 11 April 2020 by Linda Wilson
Black Summer
When a supposedly dead woman turns up at a police station, an old case comes back to haunt Washington Poe.
Reviewed on 14 March 2020 by Linda Wilson
Slay
By day, 17-year-old Keira Johnson is one of only three black students at Jefferson Academy. By night, Keira is Emerald, queen of the universe she has created in the online multi-play game SLAY. When a boy is killed in a dispute originating in the game, Keira must fight to preserve the world she has created from those who want to see it taken down.
Reviewed on 14 March 2020 by Linda Wilson
Firewatching
When a body is found bricked up in the basement of a dilapidated old house, DS Adam Tyler gets involved in a cold case that suddenly starts to get very hot to handle.
Reviewed on 14 March 2020 by Linda Wilson
Bury Them Deep
DCI Tony McLean must cope with a missing member of staff, a multi-agency operation with a silly name and bodies galore.
Reviewed on 14 March 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Whisper Man
Tom Kennedy and his young son Jake are making a fresh start away from the grief associated with the house where Tom’s wife died. Tom doesn’t expect to be plunged into another nightmare when Featherbank proves not to be the safe haven he’s expected for a boy of Jake’s age.
Reviewed on 22 February 2020 by Linda Wilson
Trouble in New York
Jamie Creedon doesn’t just want to deliver the news, he wants to write about it, and not only in his school newspaper. When he gets the chance to visit the offices of the Morning Yorker, he doesn’t realise quite how dangerous his life is about to become.
Reviewed on 22 February 2020 by Linda Wilson
Action at a Distance
The death of an old friend takes both Nightingale and Peter Grant on a trip down memory lane.
Reviewed on 22 February 2020 by Linda Wilson
Between Two Evils
When a doctor at an women’s detention centre is murdered, there are no immediate suspects but plenty of people who seem to be putting roadblocks in the way of the latest investigation for Peterborough cops DI Zigic and DS Ferreira.
Reviewed on 22 February 2020 by Linda Wilson
Maigret in Vichy
Maigret is ordered to take the waters in the spa town of Vichy, but his rest cure is disturbed when a woman is murdered.
Reviewed on 31 January 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Haven: Revolution
Pupils are going missing from an elite boarding school. Ollie Turner knows it’s a job for the kids of the underground community, the Haven, and that’s even before he knows quite how personal the connection is.
Reviewed on 31 January 2020 by Linda Wilson
Die Alone
Disgraced copper Ray Mason didn’t ask to be broken out of prison. The people responsible want someone dead and they’ve decided that Mason is best placed to make that happen. The only problem is that the target is a candidate for the top job in British politics.
Reviewed on 31 January 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Runner
Sally Page runs for a hobby, and as her job for MI5 is only at the very bottom of the tree, nowhere near the front line, she never expected to have to run for her life. But when she comes back from a coffee run to find several of her colleagues dead, that’s exactly when she has to do.
Reviewed on 31 January 2020 by Linda Wilson
My Secret Lies With You
Cait is determined not to enjoy the holiday her mother has arranged. But a meeting with boy-next-door Marko changes things, and Cait starts to think North Wales might not be quite as dull as she expected. There’s also the mysterious disappearance of a local girl to add spice to the holiday.
Reviewed on 18 January 2020 by Linda Wilson
Deadly Dance
A killer has preyed on a 14-year-old girl in Bristol. At first it seems an easy case for DI David Vogel and his team, but then doubts creep in.
Reviewed on 18 January 2020 by Linda Wilson
When the Dead Come Calling
The murder of a psychotherapist sends a northern village into shock and piles the pressure on resident DI Georgie Strachan.
Reviewed on 18 January 2020 by Linda Wilson
The Night Fire
When a cold case lands in Harry Bosch’s lap, he needs the help of night shift detective Renée Ballard again as the two look into an unsolved murder from 20 years ago.
Reviewed on 18 January 2020 by Linda Wilson
A Savage Generation
With the civilised world on the brink of collapse, a former prison seems like a good place to hole up, but appearances can be very deceptive.
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Boxer
Seventeen-year-old Sunny turns to amateur boxing after a vicious racial assault and finds himself pitted against a former friend in his first competition.
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by Linda Wilson
Drowned Lives
When Chris Buckley is approached by an old man who wants his help untangling an old family rift, he’s not keen, and it shows. But when the man is killed in a hit and run accident, things take a more sinister turn.
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by Linda Wilson
Whatever It Takes
When James Mercer’s latest heist doesn’t go according to plan, he’s presented with an ultimatum – pull off a seemingly impossible job or suffer the consequences.
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by Linda Wilson
Songs About a Boy
World famous boyband Fire&Lights are on the brink of a messy break-up as tensions between lead singer and songwriter Gabriel West and band member Olly Samson boil over. Charlie Bloom, the band’s young photographer, blames herself and just wants to wind back the clock to happier times.
Reviewed on 30 November 2019 by Linda Wilson
Deep Dirty Truth
When bounty hunter Lori Anderson is offered a deal by the boss of the Miami Mob, she has little choice but to agree, as to turn it down would put a price on her family’s heads, as well as her own. She has to snatch someone from FBI custody. No pressure, then.
Reviewed on 30 November 2019 by Linda Wilson
Bad Turn
Charlie Fox is jobless, homeless and blacklisted in the close-knit world of close personal protection, so when a new job finally comes her way, she’s in no position to refuse, even if all her instincts are telling her to run and not to look back.
Reviewed on 30 November 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Bad Fire
A case from nine years ago turns out to be anything but cold, as Alexis Skinner finds out to her cost.
Reviewed on 30 November 2019 by Linda Wilson
Displaced
East End private investigators Hakim and Arnold take on a very cold case when they are asked to find an elderly man’s sister, abducted from her pram at a funfair many years previously.
Reviewed on 09 November 2019 by Linda Wilson
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Pippa Fitz Amobi has to do a project alongside her A-levels, so she decides to look into the murder, five years ago, of one of the girls from her school. As far as everyone is concerned Andie Bell’s murder was an open and shut case, but Pippa isn’t so sure…
Reviewed on 09 November 2019 by Linda Wilson
Hunting Evil
Lucien Folter, possibly the most prolific known serial killer in the USA, has escaped from prison, driven by the tantalising prospect of revenge against the man who put him there – Robert Hunter of the LAPD’s Ultra-Violent Crimes Unit.
Reviewed on 09 November 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Stories You Tell
A phone call in the middle of the night never brings good news, and the one private investigator Roxanne Weary gets from her brother is no exception to that rule, especially when he was the last person to see a missing woman.
Reviewed on 09 November 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Puppet Show
A serial killer is torturing men and then burning them alive, leaving their bodies in stone circles in and around the Lake District. Disgraced copper Washington Poe teams up with the brilliant but socially inept civilian analyst Tilly Bradshaw in the hunt for the killer.
Reviewed on 26 October 2019 by Linda Wilson
His Dark Sun
The year is 2022 and the world is sweltering in the grip of a permanent heatwave. Nineteen-year-old Luke Spargo knows that he’s the only one who understands and can halt the inevitable. But Luke’s methods won’t meet with universal approval.
Reviewed on 26 October 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Wren Hunt
Wren Silke is sent undercover to the sinister Harness Foundation in an attempt to uncover its dangerous secrets.
Reviewed on 26 October 2019 by Linda Wilson
Take It Back
Former barrister Zara Khaleel is branded a traitor to her religion when she starts working with a white teenage girl who accuses four seemingly well brought up Muslim boys of rape.
Reviewed on 26 October 2019 by Linda Wilson
So Lucky
In one week, Mara Tagarelli loses her wife, her health and her job. Soon she is struggling on all levels and even afraid for her life. Not just because of the advance of multiple sclerosis but because someone is targeting vulnerable people and Mara believes she knows why.
Reviewed on 12 October 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Sharp Edge of a Snowflake
Two very different girls are brought together in the aftermath of a murder in the snowy Icelandic winter.
Reviewed on 12 October 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Exiled
A series of dangerous power games are played out in ancient Rome against the threatening backdrop of Mount Vesuvius.
Reviewed on 12 October 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Sinner
Tom Killgannon is asked to do one last undercover job, to get close to convicted child killer Noel Cunningham in Blackmoor prison and ensure he reveals the burial sites of his last two victims. He’s told the job will be straightforward. He was lied to.
Reviewed on 12 October 2019 by Linda Wilson
Scorpions in Corinth
Athenian playwright Philocles and his actors have been hired to take one of his popular plays to Corinth. Critics he can take, but poisoning is a bit extreme.
Reviewed on 12 October 2019 by Linda Wilson
Deep Blue Trouble
Gibson ‘The Fish’ Fletcher has broken out of prison, killing several guards in the process. Bounty hunter Lori Anderson has the job of bringing him back
Reviewed on 28 September 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Haunting of Henderson Close
Hannah has landed her dream job as a tour guide, playing the part of a woman living in 1830s Edinburgh. But when things start to go bump in the daytime as well as the night, she starts to wonder if she’s bitten off more than she can chew.
Reviewed on 28 September 2019 by Linda Wilson
Hey Sherlock!
The disappearance of a girl from her home late one night puzzles the police. Teenage sleuth Garvie Smith has his own ideas about Amy Roecastle’s disappearance, but no one is particularly interested in his take on things – at least not until their own ideas start to run out.
Reviewed on 28 September 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Long Call
A man is found stabbed to death on the bleak North Devon coast. Detective Inspector Matthew Venn leads the hunt for the killer.
Reviewed on 28 September 2019 by Linda Wilson
An Act of Kindness
The disappearance of a homeless man she’s befriended worries Nazreen Khan, then when he’s found dead, she turns to private investigator Mumtaz Hakim for help.
Reviewed on 07 September 2019 by Linda Wilson
Critical Incidents
Former Met detective Robin Osborne is back on her own turf, working as a benefit fraud investigator, but when her best friend’s husband goes missing, Robin refuses to believe that he could have harmed his wife and son, and is determined to take a hand in matters.
Reviewed on 07 September 2019 by Linda Wilson
Secret Service
When the Prime Minister announces that he’s stepping down from the leadership due to cancer, MI6 believe that one of the candidates for the top job might be in the pay of the Russians.
Reviewed on 07 September 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Good Thieves
Vita Marlowe is determined to get her grandfather’s home back from the conman who cheated him out of everything he owned. But to do that she needs help – and finds it in some unexpected places.
Reviewed on 07 September 2019 by Linda Wilson
Black Ops
Someone is killing former SAS soldiers and the powers that be decide it’s down to Danny Black to deal with the person responsible for their deaths. The only snag is that he’s told that on this op, he’s on his own.
Reviewed on 07 September 2019 by Linda Wilson
Dead Popular
An illicit party at an elite boarding school ends in a death. Did the dead girl fall or was she pushed?
Reviewed on 24 August 2019 by Linda Wilson
City of Windows
A sniper is terrorising New York, preying on law enforcement officers. The FBI call in Dr Lucas Page, a man who sees the world in a different way. Unlike anyone else, he has a chance of working out where the killing shots came from.
Reviewed on 24 August 2019 by Linda Wilson
Lost You
It only took an inattentive moment to plunge Libby into every parent’s worst nightmare when her three-year-old son Ethan goes missing on holiday. And from some nightmares, there’s no waking up.
Reviewed on 24 August 2019 by Linda Wilson
A Danger to Herself and Others
Hannah Gold doesn’t understand why she’s been consigned to a secure mental facility. After all, it wasn’t her fault that her roommate fell from a window and ended up in hospital in a coma.
Reviewed on 24 August 2019 by Linda Wilson
30-Second Forensic Science
A quick-fire look at the fascinating and varied world of forensic science by two of the leading experts in the field.
Reviewed on 24 August 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Familiars
1612. Fleetwood Shuttleworth, the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall, is pregnant for the fourth time. Her previous three pregnancies have all ended in miscarriage. Fleetwood needs the help of young midwife Alice Gray, but in an atmosphere of suspicion and fear, Fleetwood stands to lose her friend, her baby and her life.
Reviewed on 10 August 2019 by Linda Wilson
If She Wakes
Tara Beckley is lying in a hospital bed, locked inside her own mind. Her sister is fighting for her, but someone else wants her dead, and Tara knows it.
Reviewed on 10 August 2019 by Linda Wilson
Nothing To Hide
DC Constance Fairchild is suspended on full pay with orders to keep a low profile. But that’s not something that Con excels at, especially when she finds a horrifically injured man almost on her doorstep.
Reviewed on 10 August 2019 by Linda Wilson
Two Can Keep a Secret
When Ellery and Ezra Corcoran arrive in the small town of Echo Ridge, Ellery is determined to uncover its secrets, including the disappearance of her aunt 23 years ago,
Reviewed on 10 August 2019 by Linda Wilson
Enchantée
1798. Paris is on the brink of revolution. Camille Durbonne, struggling to pay food and rent, plays a dangerous game on the filthy streets and in the glittering courts.
Reviewed on 27 July 2019 by Linda Wilson
A Sinner's Prayer
Against his better judgement, JT Ellington is lured back into the murky world of private investigation. But with a sizeable proportion of the bad guys in Bristol after him, even the resourceful JT might finally have met his match
Reviewed on 27 July 2019 by Linda Wilson
Run Away
When wealthy investment manager Simon Green sees his drug addict daughter busking in a park, all he wants is to bring her home. But she runs away, and Simon ends up in a fight with her boyfriend that goes viral on social media. And Paige doesn’t want to be found.
Reviewed on 27 July 2019 by Linda Wilson
Out of the Ashes
When a fire turns out to be arson, DI Maya Rahman heads the investigation into two deaths, and strongly suspects there might be more to come.
Reviewed on 27 July 2019 by Linda Wilson
Robert B Parker's Old Black Magic
Boston PI Spenser is called in to investigate a theft, 20 years ago, from an art museum in the city and is soon plunged into the at times murky world of high-end art.
Reviewed on 13 July 2019 by Linda Wilson
Once a Pilgrim
Former SAS hard man John Carr is now working in private security, his army days behind him, or so he thinks, but some wars never entirely end, as events early in Carr’s military career come back to haunt him and his former comrades.
Reviewed on 13 July 2019 by Linda Wilson
Stone Cold Heart
When a young woman is found dead not long after a party, there’s not exactly a shortage of possible suspects for DS Cat Kinsella to wade through.
Reviewed on 13 July 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Haven
When 13-year-old Ollie Turner’s guardian is murdered, he’s taken in by a group of kids living a separate life under the streets of London and has to fight to prevent chaos and destruction being brought to the city’s streets.
Reviewed on 13 July 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Body in the Castle Well
When the body of a rich and well-connected American art student is found down a well in the grounds of a castle, Bruno, Chief of Police, must work out whether she fell or was pushed.
Reviewed on 29 June 2019 by Linda Wilson
A Girl Called Justice
When Justice Jones arrives at her new boarding school, she fully expects to hate it, but then she discovers there’s a murder to get her teeth into, and suddenly things don’t seem quite so grim.
Reviewed on 29 June 2019 by Linda Wilson
Betty Church and the Suffolk Vampire
Inspector Betty Church is not pleased to be posted to the sleepy backwater town in Suffolk where she grew up, but when a murder enlivens Sackwater, Betty is promptly in her element again.
Reviewed on 29 June 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Scandal
A stabbing in Newcastle city centre comes as a shock to DS Frankie Oliver when the victim turns out to be someone she knows.
Reviewed on 29 June 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Colour of the Sun
It’s not every day of the summer holidays that you get to see a dead body. And it’s not every day that you think you know the killer.
Reviewed on 29 June 2019 by Linda Wilson
11 Missed Calls
Anna’s mother Debbie disappeared 30 years ago, but Anna has never stopped looking for her in her mind, as she clings to whatever scraps of information she can glean. Then a strange note casts doubt on everything Anna has been brought up to believe.
Reviewed on 15 June 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Anarchists' Club
When a woman’s body is found in a shallow grave with Leo Stanhope’s address in her purse, the resulting investigation threatens Leo’s carefully guarded secret.
Reviewed on 15 June 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Woman in the Woods
A tree falls in the woods, exposing the body of woman who had given birth just before her death. Private investigator Charlie Parker is engaged to look into the circumstances of her death and the whereabouts of her child.
Reviewed on 15 June 2019 by Linda Wilson
Unearthly Things
Newly-orphaned Janie Mason is transplanted from Hawaii to San Francisco following her parents’ death, but there are strange undercurrents to life in her new family’s opulent mansion.
Reviewed on 15 June 2019 by Linda Wilson
Never Be Broken
Children are being stabbed and gunned down on the streets of London. DI Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake are expected to get results, but Noah is struggling with his own problems, just when Marnie needs him the most.
Reviewed on 01 June 2019 by Linda Wilson
Cruel Acts
When convicted murderer Leo Stone is allowed out of prison on licence while awaiting a fresh trial, another young woman disappears, leaving the finger of suspicion to point at him.
Reviewed on 01 June 2019 by Linda Wilson
Potkin and Stubbs
Aspiring journalist, 12-year-old Lil Potkin, finds herself with an unusual partner as she sets out to discover what happened to a young boy who’s gone missing.
Reviewed on 01 June 2019 by Linda Wilson
A Private Business
Lee Arnold and his assistant Mumtaz Hakim are hired by former stand-up comedian Maria Peters who wants to know why she’s being targeted by someone determined to make her question her own sanity.
Reviewed on 11 May 2019 by Linda Wilson
Kick the Moon
Ilyas Mian wants to draw comic book heroes rather than work in his dad’s shop but until he meets Kelly Mathews, Ilyas keeps his ambition to himself. Kelly understands him like no one else, but unfortunately, she’s attracted to Ilyas’ friend Imran, and doesn’t listen to the warnings she’s given about him.
Reviewed on 11 May 2019 by Linda Wilson
Dead Man's Daughter
When DI Meg Dalton finds a child in a bloodstained nightdress in woods and the child’s father dead in the house with a cut throat, she doesn’t want to believe the young girl is guilty of murder, but all the evidence seems to point to her.
Reviewed on 11 May 2019 by Linda Wilson
Close to the Edge
When Laurie Bateman sees a man fall to his death in front of a tube train, she has a need to make sense of what happens. The police seem convinced it was suicide, but Laurie is certain that’s not the case, and she becomes determined to carry out her own investigations.
Reviewed on 11 May 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Last
A group of people are holed up in a Swiss hotel when the world as they know it ends. Historian Jon Keller provides a chronicle of events that unfold in the aftermath of the disaster.
Reviewed on 01 May 2019 by Linda Wilson
This Lie Will Kill You
Five teens are invited to a murder-mystery evening at an old house. The prize for the one who solves the puzzle is a valuable scholarship. They all want it, but none of them expects to have to contend with the mysterious Ringmaster.
Reviewed on 27 April 2019 by Linda Wilson
Gallowstree Lane
The death of a young gang member sparks off an investigation that threatens to collide with a long-running covert operation.
Reviewed on 27 April 2019 by Linda Wilson
Shadows of Athens
When aspiring Athenian playwright Philocles finds a murder victim on his doorstep, he hopes it’s nothing personal, but events soon prove otherwise.
Reviewed on 27 April 2019 by Linda Wilson
The New Achilles
Former soldier Alexanor is now a healer priest in the sanctuary of Epidaurus in ancient Greece, but when the brutal reality of war ends up on his doorstep, his fate becomes bound up with the man who will become dubbed the new Achilles.
Reviewed on 27 April 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Punk Factor
Seventeen-year-old Frankie is in a punk rock girl band with her best friend. To succeed in the music industry takes hard work, and that isn’t something Frankie is good at.
Reviewed on 13 April 2019 by Linda Wilson
Cold Case
When Bob Skinner is asked for help by his old friend Sir James Proud, he doesn’t expect to find himself trying to decide if his friend really could have been involved in covering up a murder.
Reviewed on 13 April 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Angry Sea
Former SAS sergeant John Carr is caught up in a terror attack whilst on holiday in Spain and ends up getting his wish – to track down and take out the men responsible for the atrocity.
Reviewed on 13 April 2019 by Linda Wilson
Red Strike
The kidnap of a former Russian intelligence officer from a safe house sparks off a chain of events that sees former SAS operatives Bald and Porter called out of retirement again.
Reviewed on 13 April 2019 by Linda Wilson
I Stop Somewhere
Ellie Frias is over the moon when rich, good-looking Caleb Breward takes an interest in her, but the fairytale romance soon turns to horror.
Reviewed on 30 March 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Chaos of Now
Teenager hacker Eli Bennett is asked by two schoolmates to join them in an attempt to win a prestigious coding competition – and they aren’t prepared to take no for an answer.
Reviewed on 30 March 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Cutting Edge
A serial killer with a strange affinity for diamonds is at work in New York targeting couples seeking the perfect engagement ring. Criminalist Lincoln Rhyme is drafted in to help make sense of the brutal murders.
Reviewed on 30 March 2019 by Linda Wilson
We Can See You
Brook Connor seems to have it all. But her life comes crashing down in ruins when her daughter is kidnapped. She can’t go to the police, as the kidnappers say they can see everything she does. The trouble is, Brook doesn’t even know if she can trust her own husband.
Reviewed on 30 March 2019 by Linda Wilson
Panic Room
A simple valuation job turns out to be more complex than estate agent Don Challenor had expected.
Reviewed on 09 March 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
Flavia de Luce’s family holiday is enlivened when she finds a dead body in the river. Naturally, she’s determined to investigate.
Reviewed on 09 March 2019 by Linda Wilson
A Killing Mind
A serial killer is at work, taking grisly trophies from his victims. DI Sean Corrigan’s bosses want results, and they want them fast.
Reviewed on 09 March 2019 by Linda Wilson
Last Man Standing
SAS trooper Matt Standing receives a plea for help from the sister of someone who once saved his life, and Standing isn’t someone who can turn down a friend in need.
Reviewed on 09 March 2019 by Linda Wilson
Unstoppable
Fourteen-year-old Roxy and Kaine are twins. Roxy’s ambition is to win Wimbledon, Kaine’s is to play professional football. Together, they used to be unstoppable, but that was a long time ago.
Reviewed on 09 March 2019 by Linda Wilson
A Lethal Frost
When a local bookmaker is shot in the head and seriously injured, Denton copper, DI Jack Frost, is under pressure from his boss to find the culprit as well as having to pacify his landlords by tracking down an escaped parrot.
Reviewed on 23 February 2019 by Linda Wilson
That's Not What Happened
Three years ago, a massacre at Virgil County High School left six traumatised teens struggling to make sense of what happened. Now survivor Lee Bauer wants the truth to be told. But the truth is not always welcomed with open arms.
Reviewed on 23 February 2019 by Linda Wilson
Rivers of London: Water Weed
Drug dealing on the River Thames takes on an added dimension when a pair of river goddesses get involved.
Reviewed on 23 February 2019 by Linda Wilson
A Clean Canvas
When a valuable painting goes missing from a London gallery, suspicion falls on Lena’s cousin Sarika, but Lena is determined to clear her name and find the real culprit.
Reviewed on 23 February 2019 by Linda Wilson
How It Happened
FBI agent Rob Barrett is brought in to help interview a woman who has confessed to being involved with the disappearance and murder of a woman and her boyfriend. Everyone else thinks she’s an attention-seeking liar, but Barrett believes her – and stakes his career on his judgment.
Reviewed on 23 February 2019 by Linda Wilson
My Secret YouTube Life
Lily has everything – the perfect life, the perfect boyfriend, three million followers on YouTube but, unseen by her fans, Lily’s life is starting to unravel.
Reviewed on 09 February 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Craftsman
Florence Lovelady returns to the town that launched her police carer, but soon starts to fear that her first murder case might not have been as cut and dried as everyone had thought.
Reviewed on 09 February 2019 by Linda Wilson
Dead Stock
Supermarket checkout worker Bea and her friend and colleague Ant are on the case of a cat killer in Kingsleigh.
Reviewed on 09 February 2019 by Linda Wilson
Cold as the Grave
When the desiccated body of a child is found in an Edinburgh basement, it’s immediately believed to be a cold case, but when that’s proved to be incorrect, life gets complicated for DCI Tony McLean.
Reviewed on 09 February 2019 by Linda Wilson
Poisoned Ground
London PI Lee Arnold is still struggling to make ends meet. He’s been called in to track down a missing fraudster and Mumtaz Hakim has gone undercover at a psychiatric unit in an attempt to clear a former employee accused of terrorist activity.
Reviewed on 26 January 2019 by Linda Wilson
Night Shift
The new head of security at a mining base in Antarctica is told there’ll be nothing for him to do, but that prediction is soon proved wrong in spectacular fashion.
Reviewed on 26 January 2019 by Linda Wilson
Tall Order
Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd puts his extraordinary memory to the test when he’s tasked with the search for the terrorists behind a suicide bombing at a football stadium.
Reviewed on 26 January 2019 by Linda Wilson
Ruin Beach
When the body of a diver is found in a sea cave on the island of Tresco in the Scillies, DI Ben Kitto is called in to investigate.
Reviewed on 26 January 2019 by Linda Wilson
Phantom
Talented hacker Nova is given the task of infiltrating one of the most powerful corporations on the planet.
Reviewed on 26 January 2019 by Linda Wilson
In Strangers' Houses
Reviewed on 12 January 2019 by Linda Wilson
Fall Down Dead
When a woman falls to her death in the fog on the bleak moorland of Kinder Scout, DI Ben Cooper is faced with the age-old question – did she fall or was she pushed?
Reviewed on 12 January 2019 by Linda Wilson
Head Hunters
Danny Black has been sent to Afghanistan on a mission to hunt and kill the Taliban, but soon finds that he’s the one being hunted – for a war crime he didn’t commit.
Reviewed on 12 January 2019 by Linda Wilson
Rosie Loves Jack
Rosie loves Jack, but her father wants to keep them apart, especially when Jack is sent away to a special home in Brighton. But Rosie isn’t prepared to give up on her boyfriend, even when he stops contacting her.
Reviewed on 12 January 2019 by Linda Wilson
Dark Sacred Night
Detectives Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch work together to reopen a cold case in the hope of finally bringing the killer of a teenage runaway to justice.
Reviewed on 12 January 2019 by Linda Wilson
The Break Line
Max McLean, an assassin for a shady unit operating on behalf of the British government, is sent to Sierra Leone to kill a rebel leader. But there’s a lot he hasn’t been told…
Reviewed on 08 December 2018 by Linda Wilson
Evolution
Shay is searching for the truth about the deadly virus that has swept through the country. She believes the answers are to be found in Multiverse, an isolated community of survivors.
Reviewed on 08 December 2018 by Linda Wilson
Rivers of London Volumes 1 - 3 Boxed Set
A boxed set of three graphic novels in the Rivers of London series featuring PC Peter Grant and the ‘weird shit’ that keeps him in a job.
Reviewed on 08 December 2018 by Linda Wilson
Lies Sleeping
The Faceless Man is back and it’s up to DC Peter Grant and his colleagues from the Folly to stop his latest murderous spree and stop him unleashing chaos on London.
Reviewed on 08 December 2018 by Linda Wilson
Dead Lock
The hunt for a missing ten-year-old girl intensifies when a second girl of the same age disappears. The police believe the two are connected, and DI Nick Dixon is called back from holiday to help the investigation,
Reviewed on 24 November 2018 by Linda Wilson
It Ends With You
When a murdered girl is found in woodland, suspicion immediately falls on her boyfriend. The police think they’ve got the killer, but others aren’t so sure.
Reviewed on 24 November 2018 by Linda Wilson
No Time To Cry
DC Constance Fairchild’s undercover operation ends abruptly when she finds the dead body of her boss who’s been tortured and shot in the head. Constance is determined to find his killers.
Reviewed on 24 November 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Well of Ice
When the local pub burns down, the heart seems to have been ripped out of the small Irish town of Glendara. Matters get worse when local solicitor Benedicta ‘Ben’ O’Keefe and Garda Sergeant Tom Molloy make a grim discovery on Christmas Day.
Reviewed on 24 November 2018 by Linda Wilson
Enough Rope
When London PI Lee Arnold is asked for help by a former police colleague, he isn’t keen on getting involved, but allows himself to be persuaded to investigate a kidnapping.
Reviewed on 10 November 2018 by Linda Wilson
Blackstone Underground
The Bank of England is being threatened with an audacious break-in. It’s Blackstone’s job to stop this happening
Reviewed on 10 November 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Astonishing Colour of After
Leigh is struggling to cope with the aftermath of her mother’s suicide, but when a big red bird appears and speaks with her mother’s voice, Leigh knows she has one last chance to connect with her mother.
Reviewed on 10 November 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Insider
When the body of a fourth woman is found on a railway line, DCI David Stone and DS Frankie Oliver have a strong suspicion that a serial killer is at work. On top of that, someone on their team is leaking information to the press.
Reviewed on 10 November 2018 by Linda Wilson
Before I Let Go
Corey’s best friend is dead, and Corey wants to know how and why that happened. Her questions don’t make her popular in an isolated Alaskan community.
Reviewed on 27 October 2018 by Linda Wilson
Crook's Hollow
Someone wants Thor Loxley dead. But he doesn’t know who, or why.
Reviewed on 27 October 2018 by Linda Wilson
A Darkness of Dragons
The children of Hamelyn have never been found, but at least the man responsible for their disappearance is safely under lock and key. Until the dragons decide to take their revenge …
Reviewed on 27 October 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Bad Neighbour
It doesn’t take Ollie Clay long to realise he’s made a mistake buying a rundown house in a squalid district of Leeds. But he’s made his bed, and now he has to lie on it.
Reviewed on 27 October 2018 by Linda Wilson
Lethal White
Private investigator Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott have another mystery to solve, digging into a blackmail attempt on a Tory MP, as well as looking into the disturbing possibility that a distressed client really did witness the murder of a child many years ago.
Reviewed on 27 October 2018 by Linda Wilson
Dead Man's Gift and Other Stories
A collection of two novellas and five short stories from thriller writer Simon Kernick.
Reviewed on 13 October 2018 by Linda Wilson
Standing Still
DCI Anderson and DI Costello have a murder to solve and a missing man to find.
Reviewed on 13 October 2018 by Linda Wilson
Rumpole: The Penge Bungalow Murders and Other Stories
Three BBC radio dramatisations featuring iconic defence barrister Horace Rumpole.
Reviewed on 13 October 2018 by Linda Wilson
A Thousand Perfect Notes
Fifteen-year-old Beck Keverich is forced by his obsessive mother to practise classical music until his hands hurt and he fantasises about cutting them off.
Reviewed on 13 October 2018 by Linda Wilson
Run, Riot
Four teens are on the run in their tower block home, determined to bring a friend’s killers to justice.
Reviewed on 13 October 2018 by Linda Wilson
Bright Shiny Things
East London PI Lee Arnold and his friend and assistant Mumtaz Hakin set out to track down a young radicalised Muslim man in the hope that he’s decided to turn his back on ISIS.
Reviewed on 15 September 2018 by Linda Wilson
Our House
Finding strangers moving into her house who claim to have bought it is only the start of Fi Barton’s nightmare …
Reviewed on 15 September 2018 by Linda Wilson
My Box-Shaped Heart
Girl meets boy, but they both have secrets, some darker than others.
Reviewed on 15 September 2018 by Linda Wilson
All These Beautiful Strangers
Charlie Calloway’s mother disappeared ten years ago. Rumour has it that her rich, powerful father was responsible. Charlie never believed the rumours, but she still wants to know the truth.
Reviewed on 15 September 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Book Case
After an unfortunate incident at her old school, Daphne is offered a scholarship to St Rita’s School for Spirited Girls where she’s soon plunged into the mystery of a missing schoolgirl and a robbery at the local bank.
Reviewed on 01 September 2018 by Linda Wilson
Girl on the Line
An account Alice Hearn’s life as a female officer in the Met from idealistic beginnings to a soul-wearing ending.
Reviewed on 01 September 2018 by Linda Wilson
Broken Ground
The case of a body found in a peat bog is investigated by DCI Karen Pirie of Edinburgh’s Historic Cases Unit.
Reviewed on 01 September 2018 by Linda Wilson
Force of Nature
Five women trek into the bush on a company away-day. Only four of them make it out.
Reviewed on 01 September 2018 by Linda Wilson
Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies
Spenser is on the trail of a conman who doesn’t want to be found.
Reviewed on 18 August 2018 by Linda Wilson
Where the World Ends
Every year a small group of men and boys visit a wind-swept sea stac to harvest the nesting sea birds, but this year the boat fails to return for them.
Reviewed on 18 August 2018 by Linda Wilson
Snap
DCI John Marvel wants to investigate murders not burglaries, so when a cold case gets on his radar, he’s prepared to break a few rules in pursuit of the truth.
Reviewed on 18 August 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Anomaly
A TV film crew are on the hunt for a mysterious cavern in the Grand Canyon that has remained tantalisingly elusive for over a century.
Reviewed on 18 August 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Amateurs: Follow Me
Internet sensation Chelsea Dawson has gone missing. Her kidnapper was formerly a member of a group who had successfully solved a cold case murder and he is now sending taunting messages to his former friends. If they don’t solve the clues he’s setting for them, Chelsea will die.
Reviewed on 06 August 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Shout
After being badly injured on the job, firefighter Vicky Lewis is shunted into what she sees as a dull desk job, but she quickly learns that the Fire Investigation Unit isn’t quite the dead-end job she’d expected.
Reviewed on 04 August 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Death Knock
Women are going missing and there are fears that a serial killer might be at work in the East Anglian fens. TV journalist Frankie Latch is in the thick of the investigation, but it’s not a safe position to be in.
Reviewed on 04 August 2018 by Linda Wilson
Turtles All the Way Down
American billionaire. Russell Pickett has disappeared and there’s a reward for any information that leads to him being found – alive or dead. Sixteen-year-old Aza and her friend Daisy need the money, so some sleuthing is in order.
Reviewed on 21 July 2018 by Linda Wilson
Silver-Tongued
The murder of a celebrity photographer sparks another investigation for Captain Franck Guerin of Paris’ Brigade Criminelle.
Reviewed on 21 July 2018 by Linda Wilson
Black Light Express
Empress Threnody Noon has been deposed. She needs the help of a thief and a psychotic war train to get her to safety, but she soon realises nowhere is safe.
Reviewed on 21 July 2018 by Linda Wilson
Beau Blackstone
Bow Street Runner Edmund Blackstone has gone undercover to prevent the opening of the Stockton and Darlington railway being sabotaged, but he’s up against stiff opposition.
Reviewed on 21 July 2018 by Linda Wilson
No Shame
Seventeen-year-old Stacey was raped, and she’s determined to see her attacker brought to justice, but there’s no guarantee that she’ll be the one the jury believes.
Reviewed on 07 July 2018 by Linda Wilson
Shadow Man
When TV presenter Morven Murray is found brutally murdered on the eve of her wedding, it’s up to DI Lukas Mahler to find her killer.
Reviewed on 07 July 2018 by Linda Wilson
Two Kinds of Truth
Harry Bosch must go undercover to expose a ruthless drugs gang as well as fighting to protect his own reputation.
Reviewed on 07 July 2018 by Linda Wilson
Dancing on the Grave
A sniper is operating on the Cumbrian fells. CSI Grace McColl and DC Nick Weston must track him down before the death toll rises even further.
Reviewed on 07 July 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Ones That Disappeared
Three children live and work as modern slaves, in thrall to a drug gang. When freedom comes, it is both unexpected and terrifying.
Reviewed on 23 June 2018 by Linda Wilson
The House on Half Moon Street
Leo Stanhope, a coroner’s assistant in Victorian London, is searching for the murderer of Maria, the woman he loved. But Leo’s investigations will endanger both his life and the secret he has to keep at all costs for Leo was born Charlotte.
Reviewed on 23 June 2018 by Linda Wilson
A Taste for Vengeance
Bruno Courrèges, Chief of Police in St Denis, has been promoted and now must deal with a far wider area. His first case in his new role is a possible murder-suicide with links to a terrorist organisation.
Reviewed on 23 June 2018 by Linda Wilson
Boy Meets Hamster
Dylan Kershaw is having to put up with the Holiday From Hell, with added hamsters. But the hot boy in the caravan next door is some consolation. Now all Dylan has to do is get Jayden-Lee to take notice of him.
Reviewed on 23 June 2018 by Linda Wilson
Sweet William
A father is desperate to be reunited with his son, and isn’t prepared to let anyone or anything stand in his way.
Reviewed on 09 June 2018 by Linda Wilson
Blackstone's Fancy
Bow Street Runner Edmund Blackstone is charged with stopping a prize fight. The only trouble is that one of the fighters is Blackstone’s own protégé, the up and coming Ebony Joe.
Reviewed on 09 June 2018 by Linda Wilson
Deception
With the country in the grip of a deadly epidemic, Shay has turned herself in, believing she’s the person who started it all. Her friend Kai disagrees and is determined to find her.
Reviewed on 09 June 2018 by Linda Wilson
A Secret Beat
Alexia Falls chucks in a chance of college in the US to follow her heart to London and take an internship at a production company. But money worries lead her down a dangerous path.
Reviewed on 09 June 2018 by Linda Wilson
Sweetfreak
Carey’s best friend is receiving nasty messages from someone calling themselves SweetFreak. When Carey is accused of being the perpetrator, she’s determined to prove her innocence, but the evidence is against her.
Reviewed on 26 May 2018 by Linda Wilson
A Brush With Death
Bob Skinner is asked by the Security Service to look into the death of a multi-millionaire boxer.
Reviewed on 26 May 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Cost of Living
When a colleague is attacked on her way home, Bea, who works in the same supermarket, takes an interest in the case.
Reviewed on 24 May 2018 by Linda Wilson
Potter's Boy
The son of the village potter wants to grow up to become a fighter, not a potter. This is Ryo’s story.
Reviewed on 24 May 2018 by Linda Wilson
Ten Year Stretch: Celebrating a Decade of Crime Fiction at Crimefest
An anthology of short stories celebrating the tenth anniversary of CrimeFest, Bristol’s crime fiction convention.
Reviewed on 12 May 2018 by Linda Wilson
Cause of Death
DCI Grace Macallan and the newly-formed Lothian and Borders Major Crime Team must track down whoever is brutally attacking and now killing prostitutes.
Reviewed on 12 May 2018 by Linda Wilson
Don't Wake Up
A&E doctor Alex Taylor knows she’s been subjected to a horrific attack. The problem is that no one else believes her.
Reviewed on 12 May 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Truth and Lies of Ella Black
Ella Black’s life is turned upside down when her parents whisk her away from school with no warning and take a flight to Rio de Janeiro. She’s always had a secret to keep, but that has now got an awful lot harder.
Reviewed on 12 May 2018 by Linda Wilson
Pulse
Dr Chris Rankin is used to having patients die on her but none have been as shrouded in mystery as the man brought in unconscious after a day at Cheltenham races. Despite warnings, she isn’t prepared to leave well alone.
Reviewed on 28 April 2018 by Linda Wilson
King Solomon's Curse
Archaeologist Nina Wilde goes in search of the legendary King Solomon’s mines, and ends up putting her young daughter at risk.
Reviewed on 28 April 2018 by Linda Wilson
Trust Me
It’s not like 17-year-old Sam to skip school. Lizzie, his father’s partner, is determined to find out what is threatening the family unit she’s built up.
Reviewed on 28 April 2018 by Linda Wilson
I Am Thunder
Fifteen-year-old Muzna wants to be a writer. Her Pakistani-born parents want her to be a doctor. When the hottest boy in her new school starts to pay attention to her, Muzna can’t believe her luck, but all good things come at a price..
Reviewed on 28 April 2018 by Linda Wilson
Killer Instinct
Seventeen-year-old Lane’s obsession with serial killers takes a dangerous turn when it seems that she might be in the murderer’s sights.
Reviewed on 14 April 2018 by Linda Wilson
Orphan Monster Spy
Sarah is an orphan with the skills to become a spy, infiltrating an elite German finishing school on the eve of war to get close to the daughter of a Nazi scientist developing a nuclear bomb.
Reviewed on 14 April 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Lost
A ten-year-old boy goes missing and there are discrepancies in his stepfather’s version of events. DI David Stone and DS Frankie Oliver know that the first 24 hours in any investigation of this type are vital and the pressure soon mounts.
Reviewed on 14 April 2018 by Linda Wilson
Turn a Blind Eye
DI Maya Rahman investigates the murder of the head teacher at her old school amidst cultural tensions in London’s East End.
Reviewed on 14 April 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Death of Her
A woman is attacked and left for dead in a field in Cornwall. She has no idea who she is, but she knows her young daughter is missing.
Reviewed on 31 March 2018 by Linda Wilson
Artemis
Low-level criminal Jazz Bashara is offered a job for a price she can’t afford to turn down, but it’s not without its dangers, as if life on the moon wasn’t already dangerous enough.
Reviewed on 31 March 2018 by Linda Wilson
Come And Find Me
A dangerous criminal is on the run after a bloody prison riot that left men dead and horribly maimed. DI Marnie Rome and her team have the job of putting him back behind bars.
Reviewed on 31 March 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Devil's Dice
A man is found dead near a cave system with a sinister reputation. DI Meg Dalton investigates.
Reviewed on 31 March 2018 by Linda Wilson
A Wanted Man
Ex-soldier Ben Bracken is out of prison, but not through the normal channels. He’s a man on a mission, and the mission is revenge. But the murder of an old friend’s father derails his plans.
Reviewed on 17 March 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Lavender Lady Casefile
Recently-widowed Effie James does a favour for a friend and joins a local ghost-hunting group. To her surprise, it’s all a lot more interesting than she expected.
Reviewed on 17 March 2018 by Linda Wilson
All the Rage
The sheriff’s son assaulted Romy Grey, but no one believed her. Then when Romy goes missing after a school party, she gets little sympathy then, either. And soon another girl is missing.
Reviewed on 17 March 2018 by Linda Wilson
Blackstone
Bow Street Runner Edmund Blackstone is assigned to look after the young Princess Alexandrina Victoria, but things don’t quite go according to plan.
Reviewed on 17 March 2018 by Linda Wilson
Terror Kid
A teenage computer whizz is sucked unwittingly into a dangerous terror plot.
Reviewed on 03 March 2018 by Linda Wilson
You Don't Know Me
Forensic pathologist Dr Harriet Hitchin has a new challenge when the mummified body of a former call girl ends up on her mortuary slab.
Reviewed on 03 March 2018 by Linda Wilson
Gallows Drop
An investigation into a macabre hanging on an ancient gallows thrusts DCI Kate Daniels’ private life firmly into the spotlight.
Reviewed on 03 March 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Fear Within
A young woman goes missing from a naval warship in Portsmouth. Lieutenant Dani Lewis is called in to investigate.
Reviewed on 03 March 2018 by Linda Wilson
Head Case
Girls are disappearing, and PCSO Tom Mondrian thinks he’s spotted a pattern that the investigating officers have missed, but no one listens to a lowly PCSO, especially not one with a bullet in his head.
Reviewed on 03 March 2018 by Linda Wilson
Dead in the Dark
Ten years ago, Reece Bower’s wife went missing and he was in the frame for murder. Now he’s the one the police are looking for and it’s his new wife who wants him found.
Reviewed on 17 February 2018 by Linda Wilson
A Skinful of Shadows
Twelve-year-old Makepeace is caught up in both a civil war and a war for possession of her own mind, and finds friends and allies in the most unlikely places.
Reviewed on 17 February 2018 by Linda Wilson
Line of Fire
Nick Stone is operating on home soil for a change. He has to find a woman, snatch her and deliver her to the shadowy operator he knows as the Owl.
Reviewed on 17 February 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Deathwatch Journal
A man awaits death in Edinburgh’s Saughton Prison, but the guard who is tasked with keeping the death watch with him is not convinced of his guilt.
Reviewed on 17 February 2018 by Linda Wilson
This Is How It Ends
Molly and Ella are bound together by more than years of friendship. They’re now accomplices in covering up a fatal accident.
Reviewed on 03 February 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Gathering Dark
A tanker carrying a toxic load crashes into a bus stop in Edinburgh. DI Tony McLean is one of the first on the scene and must unravel the tangled truth behind the carnage.
Reviewed on 03 February 2018 by Linda Wilson
Songs About Us
Charlie Bloom is back taking photos of world famous boyband Fire&Lights, but cracks are starting to appear in the gloss and hype that surrounds the band and Charlie is faced with some difficult choices.
Reviewed on 03 February 2018 by Linda Wilson
Nemesis
Every other year since Min turned eight, she’s been hunted and killed by a sinister man in black. Every time, she wakes up, alive and unhurt, but knowing the nightmare was real, and it isn’t ending any time soon.
Reviewed on 20 January 2018 by Linda Wilson
From the Shadows
Robert Carter is accused of the murder of a 24-year-old woman. His defence is flimsy and he seems determined not to help himself. But young solicitor Dan Grant is determined to uncover the truth.
Reviewed on 20 January 2018 by Linda Wilson
State Secrets
Former Chief Constable Bob Skinner has been asked to the Palace of Westminster to talk about the possibility of him accepting a peerage, which puts him in the right place at the right time to investigate a crime that will shock the nation.
Reviewed on 20 January 2018 by Linda Wilson
Modesty Blaise: The Killing Game
Modesty and Willie go up against another set of villains in three more iconic comic strip adventures.
Reviewed on 20 January 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Child Finder
Naomi is a private investigator who specialises in finding missing children. Her latest case is that of five-year-old Madison Culver, who went missing three years ago.
Reviewed on 20 January 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Final Hour
Victor is an assassin by trade and he’s very good at his job. So good that even his former employers now want him dead.
Reviewed on 06 January 2018 by Linda Wilson
99 Red Balloons
When a young girl goes missing on her way home from school, an intense police hunt fails to find any trace of her. Grace’s mother wants her back, but someone else wants to keep her.
Reviewed on 06 January 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Treatment
Unless Drew Finch can find a way out of the Residential Reform Academy, she faces the prospect of losing herself and her brother to a deeply sinister treatment that will change them both – and not for the better.
Reviewed on 06 January 2018 by Linda Wilson
The Hanged Man
DI Ray Mason and cop-turned-PI Tina Boyd are on the trail of a group of powerful, sadistic killers, but the odds are stacked against them.
Reviewed on 06 January 2018 by Linda Wilson
Stardust
A young man travels to the realm of Faerie to find a fallen star and win the hand of a lady.
Reviewed on 03 January 2018 by Linda Wilson
Rocco and the Nightingale
Inspector Lucas Rocco has to investigate a murder on his patch, as well as provide protection for someone the Interior Ministry wants kept alive.
Reviewed on 16 December 2017 by Linda Wilson
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
Morrigan Crow has been on the Cursed Children’s register from birth and is fated to die at midnight on her 11th birthday. But she is given a second chance by the enigmatic Jupiter North.
Reviewed on 16 December 2017 by Linda Wilson
Fox Hunter
Charlie Fox is on the trail of her former lover and ex-boss Sean Meyer who appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, targeting the men who brought Charlie’s army career to a brutal end.
Reviewed on 16 December 2017 by Linda Wilson
Harry Potter: A History of Magic
The companion volume to the British Library exhibition which marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of the first of the Harry Potter books.
Reviewed on 16 December 2017 by Linda Wilson
Sweet Little Lies
DC Cat Kinsella stopped trusting her father at the age of eight, so she’s certainly not surprised when a connection emerges between him and her latest murder investigations. It’s as if she’s been waiting her whole life for this moment.
Reviewed on 25 November 2017 by Linda Wilson
Indigo Donut
Indigo’s mother was murdered when she was a small child, but the past has a nasty habit of coming back to haunt her.
Reviewed on 25 November 2017 by Linda Wilson
Triple Crown
Something is rotten at the heart of American horse-racing, and British Horse Racing Authority investigator Jeff Hinkley goes undercover to help his US colleagues.
Reviewed on 25 November 2017 by Linda Wilson
Secrets of Death
The Peak District is home to tourists of all types, but a rash of suicides is not what it wants to play host to.
Reviewed on 25 November 2017 by Linda Wilson
Warlord
SAS trooper Danny Black leads a covert team with orders to take down a Mexican drug lord.
Reviewed on 11 November 2017 by Linda Wilson
Light Touch
Spider Shepherd is sent undercover to report on whether another operative from a different agency, also working undercover, has gone rogue. In addition, he’s dragged into the hunt for a possible rogue SAS soldier.
Reviewed on 11 November 2017 by Linda Wilson
Resistance
When festival goers start falling sick, journalist Zoe Beck sets out to clear the name of the man whose sausage sandwiches are being blamed for the outbreak of the mystery disease.
Reviewed on 11 November 2017 by Linda Wilson
New Guard
In one last highly dangerous and highly deniable operation, CHERUB mission controller James Adams has to plan and execute the rescue of two kidnapped oil industry workers from war-torn Syria.
Reviewed on 11 November 2017 by Linda Wilson
Terror 404
Disgraced hacker Amy Lane is in a private psychiatric hospital, and has to use all her ingenuity to stay safe and solve a crime.
Reviewed on 28 October 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Furthest Station
When things that normally go bump in the night start disturbing commuters on the tube, PC Peter Grant gets dispatched to sort out the problem.
Reviewed on 28 October 2017 by Linda Wilson
Wychwood
The sleepy Oxfordshire countryside is darkened by a series of macabre murders re-enacting an ancient legend.
Reviewed on 28 October 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Empty Grave
Lockwood and Co are up against enemies old and new as the series reaches a shattering climax.
Reviewed on 28 October 2017 by Linda Wilson
Watch Her Disappear
DI Zigic and DS Ferreira of the Peterborough Hate Crimes unit are on the hunt for the killer of a transgender woman.
Reviewed on 28 October 2017 by Linda Wilson
Young Bond: Red Nemesis
James Bond receives a mysterious package from beyond the grave and has to work out the meaning of the cryptic notes left by his father.
Reviewed on 14 October 2017 by Linda Wilson
City of Light, City of Poison
Nicholas de la Reynie, the first police chief of Paris, is given the job of cleaning up the streets of Paris and ridding it and its courts of poisoners and black magic.
Reviewed on 14 October 2017 by Linda Wilson
Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine
The early modern era saw a grisly trade in the body parts of convicted criminals and their means of execution and its uses in popular medicine.
Reviewed on 14 October 2017 by Linda Wilson
Cold Blood
When his former CO calls in a favour, Nick Stone ends up on a walking trip to the North Pole.
Reviewed on 14 October 2017 by Linda Wilson
Contagion
Eleven-year-old Callie Tanzer disappeared a year ago. Shay is the last person to have seen her alive. While a mysterious flu epidemic sweeps across Scotland, Shay and Callie’s older brother Kai continue the search for the missing girl.
Reviewed on 30 September 2017 by Linda Wilson
I Am Traitor
The alien invaders have already taken Amy Sullivan’s brother and her best friend. Now they’re coming for her.
Reviewed on 30 September 2017 by Linda Wilson
Insidious Intent
DCI Carol Hill and psychological profiler Tony Hill are up against a forensically aware killer who is determined to stay one step ahead of them, and is succeeding all too well.
Reviewed on 30 September 2017 by Linda Wilson
Rhyming Rings
A serial killer is at work in west London. Young journalist Jeremy Miller desperately wants to cover the story, and soon finds an unusual angle: a woman who claims to be able to experience the victims’ dying moments.
Reviewed on 30 September 2017 by Linda Wilson
You Can Run
A stolen car crashes into a house, revealing an unexpected depth of horror.
Reviewed on 16 September 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Night Stalker
Met detectives Lockyer and Bennett are sent over to Somerset to investigate a suspicious fatal car accident and find themselves working in the shadow of a 200-year-old murder.
Reviewed on 16 September 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Last Place You Look
PI Roxane Weary is hired to find a woman who went missing 15 years ago and who may well hold the key to saving a man from Death Row.
Reviewed on 16 September 2017 by Linda Wilson
Genuine Fraud
Imogen has everything that Jule wants in life: she’s rich, spoilt and gets everything she wants. Jule is determined to have a slice of Imogen’s cake. Maybe even the whole cake …
Reviewed on 05 September 2017 by Linda Wilson
Treacherous Strand
When solicitor Ben O’Keefe is told that one of her clients has apparently committed suicide, she isn’t convinced, and is determined to do some investigating of her own.
Reviewed on 02 September 2017 by Linda Wilson
Two Nights
Sunnie Night is asked to investigate a bomb blast from a year ago and to hunt for a teenager missing since then.
Reviewed on 02 September 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Guggenheim Mystery
Twelve-year-old Ted Stark, his sister and cousin investigate the theft of a priceless work of art.
Reviewed on 02 September 2017 by Linda Wilson
Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn
Boston PI Spenser investigates a fire in a disused church that left three firefighters dead. One of their colleagues is convinced the fire was arson.
Reviewed on 19 August 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Death House
Toby lives in the Death House, isolated from the world, confined with others who have tested positive for a defective gene. There’s only one way out of the house, and that’s not one any of the inmates wants to take.
Reviewed on 19 August 2017 by Linda Wilson
Where She Went
TV journalist Melanie Black wakes up in bed next to a man she doesn’t know. And that’s not the least of her problems. She then realises that she’s dead.
Reviewed on 19 August 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Late Show
Detective Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, starting cases then handing them on as each new day rolls around. But now there are two investigations that she wants to stay part of. Unfortunately, her bosses don’t see things the same way.
Reviewed on 19 August 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Bone Ritual
Inspector Ruud Pujasumatra has to contend with a brutal serial killer, the visit of an old friend and his mother-in-law’s constant attempts to embarrass him.
Reviewed on 08 August 2017 by Linda Wilson
Close Your Eyes
No one could have predicted the tragedy that would strike Southfield High School, when a pupil goes on a rage-filled rampage with a gun. Or could they?
Reviewed on 05 August 2017 by Linda Wilson
One Of Us Is Lying
Five students go into detention at Bayview High School, but only four come out of the classroom alive.
Reviewed on 05 August 2017 by Linda Wilson
No Dominion
The community of plague survivors on Orkney is threatened by the arrival of three strangers.
Reviewed on 05 August 2017 by Linda Wilson
Here and Gone
Audra and her two children have escaped an abusive husband, but her road-trip across the US turns out to be a case of out of the frying pan into the fire when Sean and Louise are abducted.
Reviewed on 22 July 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Hate U Give
Sixteen-year-old Starr is the only witness to the shooting, by a police officer, of her friend Khalil, a killing that comes close to tearing her neighbourhood apart.
Reviewed on 22 July 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Templars' Last Secret
When the body of an unknown woman is found at the base of the walls of a ruined castle, Bruno, Chief of Police, is called to investigate.
Reviewed on 22 July 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Trap
With the help of an undercover agent, the security services are engaged in a desperate race to stop a terror attack.
Reviewed on 22 July 2017 by Linda Wilson
Beware That Girl
Olivia is rich, well-connected and lives a life of luxury. She has everything that Kate aspires to. To meet her goals, Kate needs to get close to Olivia. But can Kate be trusted?
Reviewed on 08 July 2017 by Linda Wilson
Death Message
The last time DS Sarah Collins came across DC Lizzie Griffiths, she was investigating her for possible professional misconduct. Now the two women have to find out if they can work together.
Reviewed on 08 July 2017 by Linda Wilson
Home
Ten years ago, two six-year-old boys were kidnapped. Now one of them has been found and reunited with his family. But the search for the second boy continues.
Reviewed on 08 July 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Pearl Thief
Julie Beaufort-Stuart’s ancestral home has been sold and is being turned into a school. Her family’s treasures are being catalogued ready for auction, but then the archivist disappears and Julie is attacked.
Reviewed on 08 July 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Binding Song
Newly-appointed lead psychologist Janet Palmer is faced with a spate of suicides amongst the prisoners and a worrying climate of secrecy amongst the staff at Halvergate Prison.
Reviewed on 24 June 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Burial Hour
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs travel to Italy on the trail of a serial kidnapper who likes to torture his victims in pursuit of some unusual goals.
Reviewed on 24 June 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Restless Dead
Forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter is called to give advice on a body washed up on the Essex marshes. The police seem to want an easy resolution to the case of a missing man, but Hunter isn’t convinced by the evidence and wants to delve deeper.
Reviewed on 24 June 2017 by Linda Wilson
Urban Outlaws: Shockwave
The Urban Outlaws have been infected with a deadly virus and now their arch-enemy Hector Del Sarto is threatening to infect the whole of London – and the rest of the country – as well. He also has the antidote, and the Outlaws need it, fast.
Reviewed on 24 June 2017 by Linda Wilson
The White Road
Simon Newman has a bad reputation to live down. When he made a clandestine trip into a Welsh cave with another man, only Simon came out alive. Now he intends to make an attempt on Everest, the world’s highest mountain.
Reviewed on 10 June 2017 by Linda Wilson
Deadly Game
Special Forces soldier-turned-police officer Robert Finlay is seconded to a unit investigating the trafficking of young women from Eastern Europe into sex slavery in the UK.
Reviewed on 10 June 2017 by Linda Wilson
Love Like Blood
The usually strait-laced DI Nicola Tanner teams up with archetypal maverick DI Tom Thorne to investigate a series of killings.
Reviewed on 10 June 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Amateurs
Case Not Closed is a website devoted to solving cold cases. When Aerin Kelly posts there about her sister’s disappearance and murder, several members decide to help.
Reviewed on 04 June 2017 by Linda Wilson
Dog Fight
An underground fight ring is sucking in former soldiers living on the streets with promises of big money. But the risks are high and there’s no easy way out.
Reviewed on 27 May 2017 by Linda Wilson
Frost at Midnight
DI Jack Frost has a wedding and a murder to contend with in Denton during the hot summer of 1983. And then a woman goes missing.
Reviewed on 27 May 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Cruelty
When Gwen Bloom’s diplomat father goes missing, she’s forced to take matters into her own hands if she ever wants to see him again.
Reviewed on 27 May 2017 by Linda Wilson
Written in Bones
DI Tony McLean is given the unenviable job of discovering why a former bent copper has ended up impaled on top of a tree in an Edinburgh park.
Reviewed on 27 May 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Rule of Fear
Sergeant Jack King is destined for higher things but, for now, his job is to bring some much-needed law and order to the notorious Grove Wood estate.
Reviewed on 13 May 2017 by Linda Wilson
Modesty Blase: Children of Lucifer
Three new stories see Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin go up against seemingly impossible odds in their own, inimitable way.
Reviewed on 13 May 2017 by Linda Wilson
Takedown
Hitman Lex Harper is contracted by former MI5 operative Charlotte Button to take out a former special forces soldier who has thrown his lot in with Islamic terrorists and is intending a high-profile attack on British soil.
Reviewed on 13 May 2017 by Linda Wilson
Strike Lightning
Young James Bond and his friend Perry Mandeville team up with the indomitable Kitty Drift to foil a plot that threatens the security of their country.
Reviewed on 13 May 2017 by Linda Wilson
Dead Woman Walking
The lone survivor of a hot air balloon crash has to go on the run to stay ahead of the ruthless killer responsible for the disaster.
Reviewed on 29 April 2017 by Linda Wilson
Murderabilia
The son of a prominent MSP is murdered and hung from a bridge in full view of a train load of commuters. Despite being officially off the case and at home on sick leave, DI Rachel Narey is determined to uncover the identity of the killer.
Reviewed on 29 April 2017 by Linda Wilson
Quieter Than Killing
While DI Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake investigate a seemingly random series of violent attacks in London, Marnie also has to come face to face with the demons from her own past.
Reviewed on 29 April 2017 by Linda Wilson
With Malice
Jill wakes up in hospital with the last six weeks of her life missing. Something terrible has happened. She just wishes someone would tell her what it is.
Reviewed on 29 April 2017 by Linda Wilson
A Handful of Ashes
When a notorious whistleblower is found dead, she appears to have taken her own life, but force medical examiner Dr Harry Kent isn’t convinced things are as straightforward as that.
Reviewed on 14 April 2017 by Linda Wilson
The One Memory of Flora Banks
Flora Banks has been unable to make new memories since she had an operation at the age of ten. Her life is lived through the pages of a notebook that remind her who she is and where she lives. But all that changes when Flora kisses a boy.
Reviewed on 14 April 2017 by Linda Wilson
Speaking in Bones
Some bones found near a remote mountain beauty spot lead forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan into an investigation into a young woman’s disappearance.
Reviewed on 14 April 2017 by Linda Wilson
Burning
Life at Brunesfield Correctional Facility is grim at the best of times, but then when a new inmate arrives, strange and dangerous things start to happen.
Reviewed on 01 April 2017 by Linda Wilson
Let the Dead Speak
A young woman returns home to find her mother missing and the house covered in her blood. Newly-promoted DS Maeve Kerrigan has to deal with both a murder inquiry without a body and abrasive DI Josh Derwent.
Reviewed on 01 April 2017 by Linda Wilson
Liquidator
A disparate bunch of teenagers take on the might of a global corporation in a race to save the life of a boy they’ve never even met.
Reviewed on 01 April 2017 by Linda Wilson
Heads You Die
James Bond and his friend Hugo have to go up against Scolopendra Industries to save the life of a family friend.
Reviewed on 18 March 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Bone Field
The discovery of the bodies of two murdered women, one of whom went missing in Thailand in 1990, opens two cold cases that soon become very hot to handle.
Reviewed on 18 March 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Chalk Pit
The disappearance of one rough sleeper and the deaths of two others all seem to have a connection to the mysterious network of old tunnels under the city of Norwich.
Reviewed on 18 March 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Method
Pregnant teenagers are going missing, and it’s Special Agent Roger Liu’s job to find them.
Reviewed on 18 March 2017 by Linda Wilson
Deep Down Dead
Bounty hunter Lori Anderson has to bring in another fugitive who’s skipped bail. But the first problem is the person she’s after is the man who taught her all she knows about the job. The second problem is that she has to bring him in with her nine-year-old daughter in tow.
Reviewed on 04 March 2017 by Linda Wilson
Shadow Kill
SAS man John Porter is sent into war-torn Sierra Leone to find and bring back Ronald Soames, the Regiment’s former commanding officer, the man Porter believes was responsible for trashing his career.
Reviewed on 04 March 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Tourist
When a tourist from the future goes missing after a trip to a 21st century shopping mall, it falls to her travel rep to get her back safely.
Reviewed on 04 March 2017 by Linda Wilson
Urban Outlaws: Counterstrike
The Urban Outlaws face their toughest test – breaking into a top secret facility to steal Medusa, the ultimate weapon.
Reviewed on 04 March 2017 by Linda Wilson
All of a Winter's Night
Exorcist Merrily Watkins knows that Aidan Lloyd’s funeral was too perfunctory and too impersonal. But what she doesn’t know is how to put things right to enable the dead man to sleep easily in his grave.
Reviewed on 18 February 2017 by Linda Wilson
Haunt Me
When Erin and her family move into a new house, she’s not expecting to find someone already living in her bedroom, especially not the ghost of its former occupant.
Reviewed on 18 February 2017 by Linda Wilson
No Place Like Home
Craig Macklin’s parents owe money and the interest is mounting at a rate they can’t keep pace with, but when Craig tries to help out, he finds that paying the money back isn’t easy.
Reviewed on 18 February 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Wrong Side of Goodbye
A reclusive billionaire hires Harry Bosch to find a missing woman. But there are plenty of people who don’t want her to be found.
Reviewed on 18 February 2017 by Linda Wilson
Daisy in Chains
Hamish Wolfe is in prison for the murder of three women. Lawyer and true crime writer Maggie Rose has succeeded in having convictions quashed in the past, but she has no intention of taking Wolfe on as a client, despite entreaties from his fan club.
Reviewed on 04 February 2017 by Linda Wilson
My Husband's Son
Five years ago, Jason’s son Barney went missing. But when his new wife Heidi sees a boy she thinks is Barney, Jason isn’t convinced. Heidi is convinced she’s right. Jason just wants her to drop the subject. Who’s right?
Reviewed on 04 February 2017 by Linda Wilson
Rise the Dark
The search for his wife’s killer takes Markus Novak back to his roots in Montana where he has to go up against an attempt to cause a severe and disruptive power outage.
Reviewed on 04 February 2017 by Linda Wilson
Silverfin
Something sinister is stirring in the deep waters of Loch Silverfin. Young James Bond investigates the disappearance of a friend’s young cousin and soon ends up in a whole heap of trouble.
Reviewed on 04 February 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Four Legendary Kingdoms
Jack West Jnr must fight for his life, and the lives of his friends, in a series of hellish gladiatorial combats.
Reviewed on 04 February 2017 by Linda Wilson
These Shallow Graves
Miss Josephine Montfort has been destined from birth to lead a respectable life and make a good marriage. But her father’s untimely death threatens to rock Jo’s world to its foundations.
Reviewed on 21 January 2017 by Linda Wilson
A Life to Kill
Coroner Jenny Cooper has to handle her hardest case to date, the inquest into the death of a young soldier in Afghanistan.
Reviewed on 21 January 2017 by Linda Wilson
Kid Got Shot
When a teenager from his school is shot dead, Garvie Smith is reluctant to leave the investigation to the local police, especially as he’s sure they’re just not asking the right questions.
Reviewed on 21 January 2017 by Linda Wilson
The Malice of Waves
Oceanographer Dr Cal McGill is called in to try to solve the mystery of a 14-year-old boy’s disappearance from a remote Scottish island five years ago.
Reviewed on 21 January 2017 by Linda Wilson
Are You Watching Me?
Liz Cafferky’s championing of a drop-in centre for older men catapults her into the media limelight, but that brings with it pressures and fears that she hadn’t foreseen.
Reviewed on 07 January 2017 by Linda Wilson
Dear Charlie
Sixteen-year-old Sam has to come to terms with the fact that his older brother Charlie committed a horrific school shooting, and this isn’t easy in a town determined to treat him and his family as pariahs.
Reviewed on 07 January 2017 by Linda Wilson
Mistletoe and Murder
The members of the Detective Society are in Cambridge for Christmas 1935, and wherever Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong go, death is sure to follow.
Reviewed on 07 January 2017 by Linda Wilson
The River at Night
Instead of their usual trip to a beach resort, Win Allen allows her friend Pia to talk her and two other friends into a rafting trip down a river in the depths of the Maine wilderness.
Reviewed on 07 January 2017 by Linda Wilson
Game Changer
15-year-old Mikey has seen something that puts him and his family in danger, particularly the sister he loves.
Reviewed on 24 December 2016 by Linda Wilson
Rebel Bully Geek Pariah
Four very different teenagers who don’t even like each other are forced onto the run after police break up an illicit drinking party.
Reviewed on 24 December 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Bone Collection
Four short stories featuring forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan.
Reviewed on 24 December 2016 by Linda Wilson
Undercover
The story of 20 years in the life of an undercover cop.
Reviewed on 24 December 2016 by Linda Wilson
Blame
Sixteen-year-old Ant and her younger brother Mattie have been sent to prison for crimes they didn’t commit, but under a new law, they can be held responsible for the sins of their parents and even their grandparents.
Reviewed on 10 December 2016 by Linda Wilson
Cell 7
Sixteen-year-old Martha Honeydew is on death row for killing a much loved celebrity. The people get to be the ones to decide whether she lives or dies.
Reviewed on 10 December 2016 by Linda Wilson
Dead Silent
DCI Eve Clay has to delve deep into her own past in an attempt to solve a macabre murder in a Liverpool suburb.
Reviewed on 10 December 2016 by Linda Wilson
Modesty Blaise: The Murder Frame
Four stories featuring Modesty Blaise, one of the greatest kickass heroines of all time, and her ever-reliable companion, Willie Garvin.
Reviewed on 10 December 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Tears of Angels
A gruesome murder forces DCI Anderson and DI Costello to reopen an old case into the violent death of two boys.
Reviewed on 10 December 2016 by Linda Wilson
Dark Forces
Spider Shepherd has to infiltrate a dangerous criminal organisation as well as help to counter attacks by IS terrorists.
Reviewed on 26 November 2016 by Linda Wilson
Endgame
Teenage agent Zach Darke has to go up against an old adversary to save the life of two friends.
Reviewed on 26 November 2016 by Linda Wilson
Hard Wired
Ex-Delta Force operative Jon Reznick is top of the list of someone with a grudge against his former unit, and whoever wants hm dead is closing in fast.
Reviewed on 26 November 2016 by Linda Wilson
Hurricane Gold
On an island full of criminals, the young James Bond has to face a series of terrifying ordeals to win his freedom.
Reviewed on 26 November 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Stroke of Death
Tamara Hoyland is left to deal with the aftermath of her father-in-law’s death, and the return of the black sheep of the family, her grasping brother-in-law.
Reviewed on 26 November 2016 by Linda Wilson
Detonator
Nick Stone is on the run with a seven-year-old boy in tow, hampered by the fact that he has no memory of who is out to kill him, or why.
Reviewed on 12 November 2016 by Linda Wilson
Jessica's Ghost
No one is more surprised than Jessica when someone is finally able to see her and talk to her. It’s lonely being a ghost, but now she has Francis for a friend.
Reviewed on 12 November 2016 by Linda Wilson
Lockwood & Co: The Creeping Shadow
Lucy Carlyle has left Lockwood & Co to strike out on her own, but her resolve is tested when Lockwood comes to her with a proposition.
Reviewed on 12 November 2016 by Linda Wilson
Robert B. Parker's Kickback
Blackburn, Massachusetts, has a zero tolerance policy for juvenile crime, as teenager Dillon Yates discovers to his cost when a joke spectacularly backfires.
Reviewed on 12 November 2016 by Linda Wilson
Dance With The Dead
A woman’s mutilated body gives PC Donal Lynch a possible way out of the Cold Case Squad and back onto an active murder investigation.
Reviewed on 29 October 2016 by Linda Wilson
Missing You
Jess Mastriani’s power to find missing children has deserted her, but that doesn’t prevent ex-boyfriend Rob Wilkins from turning up on her doorstep asking for help finding his missing sister.
Reviewed on 29 October 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Damage Done
A vice raid goes spectacularly wrong. But Inspector Tony McLean has never been one to stop digging, no matter how deep the hole gets.
Reviewed on 29 October 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Midas Legacy
An ancient Codex leads Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase on a desperate race to prevent ancient artefacts of immense power from falling into the wrong hands.
Reviewed on 29 October 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Wrong Train
A series of eight spine-shilling stories linked by an equally creepy narrative set on a deserted platform next to a railway line.
Reviewed on 29 October 2016 by Linda Wilson
Follow Me Back
Lizzie Summersall has disappeared and it’s the talk of the school.
Reviewed on 15 October 2016 by Linda Wilson
Ghosts of Karnak
The vigilante known as the Ghost must take on some seemingly unstoppable man-machine hybrids and battle a mysterious cult determined to bring a pair of ancient Egyptian gods back to power.
Reviewed on 15 October 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Blogger
When a popular blogger falls to his death, DCI Jeff Temple and his team have to weather the inevitable media storm.
Reviewed on 15 October 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Hidden Legacy
The death of one girl and the mutilation of another leaves a lasting and painful legacy that can’t remain buried for ever.
Reviewed on 15 October 2016 by Linda Wilson
Skin and Bone
Preston Coroner Titus Cragg is called in when the body of a baby is discovered in the town’s notorious tanning yard.
Reviewed on 01 October 2016 by Linda Wilson
Street Soldier
Tough teenager Sean Harker is up to his eyes in trouble and a spell in a Young Offenders’ Institute looks like only digging him deeper in the mire, but then an unexpected offer gives him the chance to turn his life around.
Reviewed on 01 October 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Murder Road
DI Ben Cooper investigates the murder of a lorry driver whose truck gets stuck under a low bridge near an isolated Derbyshire hamlet.
Reviewed on 01 October 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Woman Who Walked Into The Sea
Violet Wells was abandoned as a baby. When she finds out that her mother committed suicide just after giving birth, Violet is determined to learn as much as she can about the woman who gave her up.
Reviewed on 01 October 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Silent Room
A Special Branch officer, believed to have gone rogue, is taken from a hijacked prison van after being refused bail. Most believe DI Jack Fenwick has been sprung by his dodgy mates, but his former sergeant believes he’s been taken against his will and is an innocent man.
Reviewed on 01 October 2016 by Linda Wilson
Changing the Odds
When Bristol private investigator Jack Shepherd is asked to look into the disappearance of an old friend, he soon ends up in hot water.
Reviewed on 30 September 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Earthly Gods
Imperial agent Cassius Corbulo has to help track down three kidnapped girls as well as continuing the search for his missing bodyguard.
Reviewed on 17 September 2016 by Linda Wilson
As Black as Ebony
Finnish teenager Lumikki Andersson is being stalked and doesn’t know to whom she can turn. She’s unable to decide between new boyfriend Sampsa, or Blaze, who broke her heart and has now reappeared in her life.
Reviewed on 17 September 2016 by Linda Wilson
Captcha Thief
When a famous painting is stolen from the National Museum of Wales, police turn to ex-con Jason Carr and his hacker boss Amy Lane for help.
Reviewed on 17 September 2016 by Linda Wilson
Die of Shame
When a member of a therapy group is murdered, DI Nicola Tanner finds the resulting wall of silence hard to penetrate.
Reviewed on 17 September 2016 by Linda Wilson
Out of Bounds
A DNA test done on a teenage car thief throws up an unexpected connection to a case of rape and murder 22 years ago.
Reviewed on 17 September 2016 by Linda Wilson
One Of Us
Sixteen-year-old K Child is caught up in a devastating bomb attack that radically changes the course of her life.
Reviewed on 03 September 2016 by Linda Wilson
Sandman
DS Kate Lewis is called in to investigate the death of a journalist on the flooded Somerset levels.
Reviewed on 03 September 2016 by Linda Wilson
Nomad
When a devastating attack takes out an M16 clandestine ops team, suspicion falls on Marc Dane, the sole survivor.
Reviewed on 03 September 2016 by Linda Wilson
Long Time Lost
Kate Sutherland needs to stay out of the clutches of the people who don’t want her to testify in a murder trial and to do that she needs Nick Miller’s help.
Reviewed on 03 September 2016 by Linda Wilson
Eden Summer
Jess Mayfield’s best friend has gone missing, and no one knows why, but Jess is determined to find Eden.
Reviewed on 20 August 2016 by Linda Wilson
Remembrance
When property tycoon Paul Slater threatens to tear down Suze Simon’s old family home and unleash an ancient curse, Suze is faced with a dilemma. Give in to blackmail, or save her boyfriend’s soul by herself.
Reviewed on 20 August 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Crossing
Lawyer Mickey Haller wants former cop Harry Bosch to get a client off a murder charge. But Harry isn’t keen. Investigating his former colleagues seems like a step too far, even for him.
Reviewed on 20 August 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Teacher
Maverick cops DS Adrian Miles and DS Imogen Grey struggle to find the connection between a series of increasingly brutal killings.
Reviewed on 20 August 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Missing
15-year-old Billy Wilkinson went missing six months ago. His mother, Claire, is convinced he’s still alive, but her case isn’t helped when a press conference goes wrong and the spotlight is turned on her own family.
Reviewed on 20 August 2016 by Linda Wilson
End of Days
The war between the angels and the remnants of humanity reaches a suitably explosive climax.
Reviewed on 06 August 2016 by Linda Wilson
Death Trap
A terrified teenager is the only witness to the brutal murder of three people. It’s DI Rio Wray’s job to keep her alive during the hunt for the killers.
Reviewed on 06 August 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Sun King Conspiracy
A young aspiring actor finds himself in possession of a deadly secret in the court of King Louis XIV
Reviewed on 06 August 2016 by Linda Wilson
Crash
A fatal crash at the Moscow Grant Prix leaves the Ptarmigan team facing charges of corporate manslaughter.
Reviewed on 06 August 2016 by Linda Wilson
Heaven Sent
Paul Slater is determined to change the past and make sure that Suze and her boyfriend Jesse never meet. Suze is equally determined to stop him.
Reviewed on 23 July 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Loneliness of Distant Beings
Life aboard the First Contact Vessel Ventura is regimented in all respects. The system has no place for teenage rebels, as Seren soon finds out.
Reviewed on 23 July 2016 by Linda Wilson
Alone With The Dead
Rookie PC Donal Lynch is one of the first on the scene of a brutal murder. The investigation quickly stalls, but the murdered woman herself is determined to make sure her case isn’t forgotten.
Reviewed on 23 July 2016 by Linda Wilson
Songs About A Girl
Fifteen-year-old Charlie Bloom’s life is turned upside down when she’s asked to take a series of backstage photos of the latest boyband phenomenon, Fire&Lights.
Reviewed on 19 July 2016 by Linda Wilson
Down Among the Dead Men
Jason Green works for crime boss Harry Irwell, but when Jason’s younger brother gets into trouble, it looks like he’s on his own, despite having friends in low places.
Reviewed on 09 July 2016 by Linda Wilson
Modesty Blaise: The Killing Distance
Modesty and Willie take on mercenaries, assassins and pirates in three stories by Peter O’Donnell and illustrator Enric Romero.
Reviewed on 09 July 2016 by Linda Wilson
Private Investigations
A car crash in a supermarket car park leads Bob Skinner to an unexpected and shocking discovery.
Reviewed on 09 July 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Bone Sparrow
Subhi has spent all his life in a detention centre, but then one day, something unexpected happens. Someone breaks into the camp, not out of it.
Reviewed on 09 July 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Puppet Maker
DI Jack Brady is under pressure from all sides to find a three-year-old girl who’s been abducted and track down a serial killer called The Joker.
Reviewed on 09 July 2016 by Linda Wilson
Orangeboy
Marlon promised his mother that he would have nothing to do with drugs, but when he falls under Sonya’s spell, keeping that promise suddenly becomes a lot more difficult.
Reviewed on 25 June 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Revelation Code
A cult leader is determined to bring about a biblical apocalypse, and when archaeologist Nina Wilde is kidnapped to further his plans, it’s up to her husband Eddie Chase to throw a spanner in the works.
Reviewed on 25 June 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Storm
With the killer rain still falling from the sky, teenager Ruby Morris has to survive in a hostile world.
Reviewed on 25 June 2016 by Linda Wilson
Time of Death
Two children are missing from Polesford and hopes of finding them alive are rapidly fading.
Reviewed on 25 June 2016 by Linda Wilson
Death at Whitewater Church
The discovery of a skeleton wrapped in a blanket in the crypt of a deconsecrated church puts rather a crimp in the sale, and leaves local solicitor Benedicta ‘Ben’ O’Keefe with some difficult skeins of local history to unravel.
Reviewed on 11 June 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Scrivener
Coroner Titus Cragg leads an inquest into the death of a Preston pawnbroker, attempting to determine whether the man committed suicide or was murdered.
Reviewed on 11 June 2016 by Linda Wilson
Young Blood
Being in love with a ghost doesn’t make things easy for 16-year-old ghost-buster Suze Simon, especially not when his grave gets uncovered by accident in her own backyard.
Reviewed on 11 June 2016 by Linda Wilson
Modesty Blaise: The Young Mistress
Modesty and Willie tangle with forgers, horse-thieves and a diabolical plot to kill an old friend in three more stories from Peter O’Donnell, all skilfully drawn by artist Enric Romero.
Reviewed on 28 May 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Sapphire Cutlass
Rémy Brunel and the crew of the ruby airship travel deep into the forests and mountains of India on the trail of the mysterious Sapphire Cutlass.
Reviewed on 28 May 2016 by Linda Wilson
All Through The Night
Bristol private investigator JT Ellington is hired to retrieve some papers stolen from an orphanage, and to find the truth. That’s the part of the job that proves the hardest.
Reviewed on 28 May 2016 by Linda Wilson
Trigger Mortis
James Bond is tasked with keeping a British racing driver safe on the notoriously difficult Nurburgring circuit.
Reviewed on 28 May 2016 by Linda Wilson
I Know Who Did It
When a woman turns up claiming to be someone who died in a car accident, detective Mark Nelson has to untangle the present from the past.
Reviewed on 14 May 2016 by Linda Wilson
Moth Girls
Five years ago, Petra and Tina disappeared. Now their friend Mandy has to face up to the part she played in events.
Reviewed on 14 May 2016 by Linda Wilson
Fool Me Once
Maya knows her husband is dead. She saw him killed. But when the hidden camera she’s installed to keep her eye on the nanny shows him seemingly still alive, she has to get at the truth, no matter what it costs.
Reviewed on 14 May 2016 by Linda Wilson
Tastes Like Fear
DI Marnie Rome and her team are on the look-out for two very different missing teenagers.
Reviewed on 14 May 2016 by Linda Wilson
Make Me
Jack Reacher gets off a train in the middle of the Oklahoma prairie, and finds more than he bargained for in the strangely watchful town of Mother’s Rest.
Reviewed on 23 April 2016 by Linda Wilson
13 Minutes
Teenager Natasha dies for 13 minutes after a plunge into an icy river. No one, not even Natasha, knows what she was doing in the woods at night or how she ended up in the water.
Reviewed on 23 April 2016 by Linda Wilson
Penance
DI Alec Davies investigates the death of an elderly priest on the altar in a Glasgow church, while TV journalist Oonagh O’Neill delves into some of the Catholic church’s unpalatable secrets.
Reviewed on 23 April 2016 by Linda Wilson
Heartbreaker
DI Phil Brennan’s marriage seems to be on the rocks and he’s deteriorating fast, losing himself in the welcoming arms of too much booze. And that’s not good when he’s got a brutal killer to track down.
Reviewed on 23 April 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Turning Tide
Erykah Macdonald is getting ready to leave her husband and her nice, safe suburban life behind, but her plans are thrown into disarray by an unexpected windfall.
Reviewed on 02 April 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Crime Museum Uncovered
Take a trip behind the scenes of the Metropolitan Police’s Crime Museum.
Reviewed on 02 April 2016 by Linda Wilson
Modesty Blaise: Ripper Jax
Four more adventures for Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin, brought to life on the page by artist Enric Romero.
Reviewed on 02 April 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Rain
‘It’s in the rain!’ And if the rain touches you, you’re dead.
Reviewed on 02 April 2016 by Linda Wilson
Black Ops
Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd goes undercover again, this time posing as an assassin willing to take on a contract to assassinate the Russian president.
Reviewed on 12 March 2016 by Linda Wilson
Deathlist
After a devastating attack on a group of soldiers undergoing selection for the SAS, John Porter is given the job of tracking down the killers.
Reviewed on 12 March 2016 by Linda Wilson
First Class Murder
Young detectives Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells take a trip on the Orient Express and soon have another case to solve.
Reviewed on 12 March 2016 by Linda Wilson
A Siege of Bitterns
Bird-watching cop Domenic Jejeune moves from Canada to Norfolk – and investigates skullduggery in the birding world.
Reviewed on 12 March 2016 by Linda Wilson
Jonathan Dark or the Evidence of Ghosts
Maria King receives a chilling proposal of marriage from a stalker. DI Jonathan Dark failed to save the killer’s first victim, but he’s determined to keep Maria alive.
Reviewed on 27 February 2016 by Linda Wilson
Knightley & Son
Private detective team, Knightley & Son are on the track of a sinister criminal organisation known as the Combination.
Reviewed on 27 February 2016 by Linda Wilson
Mean Spirits
Teenager Suze Simon can see and hear ghosts. The downside to that is that they can – and sometimes do – try to kill her.
Reviewed on 27 February 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Hollow Men
Police surgeon Harry Kent is determined to find out why a troubled teenager ended up getting shot and what it was he’d wanted to make public.
Reviewed on 27 February 2016 by Linda Wilson
Lockwood & Co: The Hollow Boy
London is in the grip of a terrifying plague of ghosts, stretching all the psychic investigation agencies – including Lockwood & Co – to breaking point.
Reviewed on 13 February 2016 by Linda Wilson
Only To Die Again
Sam Dryden doesn’t hesitate when he’s asked for help by an old friend, but soon finds himself up to his neck in trouble.
Reviewed on 13 February 2016 by Linda Wilson
Post Mortem
A young girl and a long-serving police officer fall to their deaths from a London tower block. The only witnesses are a traumatised child and Lizzie Griffiths, a rookie cop.
Reviewed on 13 February 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Affinity Bridge
The dashing Sir Maurice Newbury and his unflappable assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes investigate the strange cases of a spectral policeman and an airship crash in a steampunk re-imagining of Victorian London.
Reviewed on 13 February 2016 by Linda Wilson
Black Widow
A whirlwind romance turns into a nightmare when Diana Jaeger’s husband goes missing after a car accident.
Reviewed on 30 January 2016 by Linda Wilson
The 100 Society
Grace Becker and her friends are determined to complete the mission they’ve set themselves – tagging 100 well-known locations around the city. But danger is stalking them.
Reviewed on 30 January 2016 by Linda Wilson
The First Man
The mysterious and dangerous Le Guen’s Cave has claimed another life, this time an experienced diver who had been studying the cave paintings.
Reviewed on 30 January 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Sea Detective
Oceanographer Cal McGill uses his specialist knowledge to investigate the mystery of two severed feet washed up in two completely different locations off the coast of Scotland.
Reviewed on 30 January 2016 by Linda Wilson
Hellfire
Danny Black is in command of a small team sent to carry out a hostage rescue in Nigeria. What awaits them there is far more dangerous than anything they could have expected.
Reviewed on 16 January 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Outsider
Close protection specialist James Bishop is called in to help a witness in a high-profile trial stay alive long enough to give evidence.
Reviewed on 16 January 2016 by Linda Wilson
The Witness
Jane Kinnear is in a police safe house after witnessing a brutal double murder while DI Ray Mason has to catch the killer and foil an imminent terrorist attack.
Reviewed on 16 January 2016 by Linda Wilson
Urban Outlaws: Lockdown
The Urban Outlaws have to make their way to the US in pursuit of criminal hacker Hector, who has stolen the world’s most advanced computer virus.
Reviewed on 16 January 2016 by Linda Wilson
Arsenic For Tea
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy’s home, Fallingford, for the school holidays. When one of the guests is taken ill in mysterious circumstances, the Wells and Wong Detective Society has its next case to investigate.
Reviewed on 02 January 2016 by Linda Wilson
Awaken
The ferries that take the dead to their onward destinations have stopped running and the souls of the dead are mounting up, with nowhere to go. It’s up to 17-year-old Pierce Oliviera, the new consort of the Lord of the Underworld, to restore order.
Reviewed on 02 January 2016 by Linda Wilson
Endgame
The struggle for control of Cimmeria Academy reaches an explosive climax.
Reviewed on 02 January 2016 by Linda Wilson
Shards of Hope
Arrow Squad leader Aden Kai has been kidnapped and his psychic abilities are being blocked. The rest of the world doesn’t know if he’s alive or dead, and the way things are looking, dead is going to be the most likely outcome.
Reviewed on 02 January 2016 by Linda Wilson
Shoot To Kill
James Bond gets the chance of a trip of a lifetime on a luxury airship bound for Hollywood, but trouble isn’t far behind him.
Reviewed on 12 December 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Sherlock Holmes Book
Everything you ever wanted to know about the world’s most famous fictional detective.
Reviewed on 12 December 2015 by Linda Wilson
Young Sherlock: Night Break
Young Sherlock returns to his childhood home after the death of his mother and trouble doesn’t take long to seek him out when his sister’s fiancé disappears without trace.
Reviewed on 12 December 2015 by Linda Wilson
Double Or Die
One of his professors has disappeared and young James Bond has to decipher and follow a series of cryptic clues that lead him into some very dangerous places.
Reviewed on 12 December 2015 by Linda Wilson
High Stakes
When a hysterical ghost appears in her bedroom in the middle of the night, Suze Simon isn’t terribly pleased, especially when the woman wants a job doing, but doesn’t provide much in the way of helpful information.
Reviewed on 21 November 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Starlings & Other Stories
Twelve short stories inspired by the stark, evocative black and white photography of David Wilson.
Reviewed on 21 November 2015 by Linda Wilson
Tom Adams Uncovered: The Art of Agatha Christie and Beyond
The story of artist Tom Adams is told through his Agatha Christie paperback covers from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as a variety of other art and illustrations.
Reviewed on 21 November 2015 by Linda Wilson
Friends of the Dusk
A severe storm uncovers an unusual burial near the cathedral in Hereford and brings problems for Frannie Bliss, while Merrily Watkins has to contend with a modernising bishop.
Reviewed on 21 November 2015 by Linda Wilson
Burnt Paper Sky
Allowing her eight-year-old son a few moments of freedom in the woods leads to every mother’s nightmare when Rachel Finch’s son disappears, presumed abducted.
Reviewed on 07 November 2015 by Linda Wilson
Hide and Seek
One of Jess Tennant’s classmates has gone missing. Jess is warned to keep her nose out of police business, but she’s not going to let Inspector Dan Henderson cramp her style, even if he is her boyfriend’s dad.
Reviewed on 07 November 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Domino Killer
Joe Parker finally comes face to face with the man he believes is responsible for his younger sister’s murder.
Reviewed on 07 November 2015 by Linda Wilson
Urban Outlaws: Blackout
The Urban Outlaws are on the trail of a destructive virus, but some old enemies are determined to get to it before they do.
Reviewed on 07 November 2015 by Linda Wilson
For Valour
When a young trooper is shot in the head during an SAS exercise, it seems a clear-cut case of the negligent discharge of a weapon. But that doesn’t stop Nick Stone wanting to do some digging, especially as the accused soldier is the son of a close friend.
Reviewed on 24 October 2015 by Linda Wilson
Night School
When teenage rebel Allie Sheridan is arrested for the third time, her parents have had enough, and she’s packed off to the exclusive and mysterious Cimmeria Academy, where nothing is quite what it seems.
Reviewed on 24 October 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Devil's Anvil
Billie Womack’s ex-husband stole $80 million and the people he stole it from think she’s the key to getting their hands on the money. It’s Joe Hunter’s job to keep her safe.
Reviewed on 24 October 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Snake Trap
Travis Delaney has been kidnapped by terrorists and has to work with a man he hates in order to survive.
Reviewed on 24 October 2015 by Linda Wilson
Dying Wish
When an author has a heart attack at his own book signing, he makes a bizarre last request of an old friend. He wants his house burned to the ground.
Reviewed on 10 October 2015 by Linda Wilson
Lockwood & Co: The Whispering Skull
Lockwood & Co go up against the Fittes Agency again in the search for a deadly relic that’s been stolen after being dug up from a London graveyard.
Reviewed on 10 October 2015 by Linda Wilson
Love You To Death
Being able to talk to the dead isn’t always easy, as 16-year-old Susannah Simon will testify.
Reviewed on 10 October 2015 by Linda Wilson
Splinter the Silence
Carol Jordon, faced with the humiliation of a drink-driving charge, turns to former friend and colleague, Tony Hill, and the pair are soon immersed in a series of apparent suicides due to internet bulling. As ever, it takes Hill to spot the patterns others have missed.
Reviewed on 10 October 2015 by Linda Wilson
Blood of My Blood
Jasper Dent – Jazz to his friends – knows he’s the only person who can end a serial killer’s reign of terror, but as the killer in question is his own father, it’s never going to be an easy job.
Reviewed on 26 September 2015 by Linda Wilson
Dead and Buried
Rose and Joshua’s search for their missing parents continues, but events take an unexpected turn when a body is discovered buried in the garden of the house they used to live in.
Reviewed on 26 September 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Blood Whisperer
Former crime scene investigator Kelly Jacks simply can’t ignore the evidence, even though it’s not her business and no longer her job.
Reviewed on 26 September 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Killing Kind
Michael Hendricks is a contract killer, but his quarry is other killers. The only problem is that one of them has his sights fixed firmly on him.
Reviewed on 26 September 2015 by Linda Wilson
Last Words
Garrison in Southern Indiana is a town that’s harbouring quite a few secrets, as Mark Novak discovers to his cost when he’s sent to look into an exceedingly cold case.
Reviewed on 12 September 2015 by Linda Wilson
Little Black Lies
A child goes missing on the remote Falklands Islands. This is not the first time it’s happened and the last two children to disappear have never been found.
Reviewed on 12 September 2015 by Linda Wilson
Shiver The Whole Night Through
A small town in Ireland is in the grip of an unusually severe winter. When popular local girl Sláine McAuley is found dead in a wood, everyone seems prepared to put this down to suicide, but 17-year-old Aiden Flood isn’t convinced.
Reviewed on 12 September 2015 by Linda Wilson
Underworld
There’s nothing ordinary about 17-year-old Pierce Oliviera’s life. She’s dating the Lord of the Underworld, being pursued by Furies and has to save her cousin from suffocating in a coffin.
Reviewed on 12 September 2015 by Linda Wilson
After the Fire
After a devastating fire in a London tower block, DC Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent have to uncover the secret world of the 11th floor.
Reviewed on 29 August 2015 by Linda Wilson
Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase
London’s most ramshackle psychical detective agency are on the verge of going broke and have no option other than to take on the case that no one else wants.
Reviewed on 29 August 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Dying Season
Chief of Police Bruno Courrèges is caught in the middle of a row between hunters and conservationists in the Dordogne town of St Denis, as well as having a suspicious death to investigate.
Reviewed on 29 August 2015 by Linda Wilson
Urban Outlaws
A group of kids go up against some formidable opposition in a bid to stop an advanced super-computer being misused.
Reviewed on 29 August 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Ice House
An assassin defaults on his contract and instead of killing her, goes on the run with his intended target, a ten-year-old girl.
Reviewed on 15 August 2015 by Linda Wilson
Killer Plan
Caroline Robinson’s life is turned upside down when her husband is murdered and one of her sons is kidnapped, but she can’t go to the police for fear of implicating herself.
Reviewed on 15 August 2015 by Linda Wilson
Nearly Departed
Emily believes her house is haunted. A group of her schoolfriends decide to investigate, but nothing in Woodsville is ever straightforward.
Reviewed on 15 August 2015 by Linda Wilson
Prayer for the Dead
DI Tony McLean struggles to find a link between a series of bizarre killings in Edinburgh.
Reviewed on 15 August 2015 by Linda Wilson
Personal
There are believed to be only four snipers in the world capable of making the shot that nearly killed the French president. One of them is American, and favours are called in to set Jack Reacher on his tail.
Reviewed on 01 August 2015 by Linda Wilson
State of Emergency
Against the background of growing civil unrest, former SAS sergeant Tom Buckingham has to stay close to right-wing politician Vernon Rolt and decide where his own loyalties lie.
Reviewed on 01 August 2015 by Linda Wilson
Stealing People
A series of kidnaps strikes deep at the heart of the lives of the rich and powerful, with a £25 million price tag on each life.
Reviewed on 01 August 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Skeleton Road
When a skeleton is discovered at the top of a long-disused building, the neat hole in the skull makes it clear that this wasn’t a case of accidental death. Cold case specialist DCI Karen Pirie is called in to investigate.
Reviewed on 01 August 2015 by Linda Wilson
Absence of Light and other stories
Charlie Fox returns in a collection of short stories and a novella spanning Charlie’s career in close personal protection work.
Reviewed on 18 July 2015 by Linda Wilson
As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust
When a mummified body falls out of a chimney on Flavia de Luce’s first night at her new school, life at Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy suddenly takes an interesting turn.
Reviewed on 18 July 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Boy That Never Was
Three-year-old Dillon was lost when an apartment block in Tangier was swallowed up by an earthquake, so when Harry thinks he sees his son on the streets of Dublin five years later, he’s elated. But will anyone believe him?
Reviewed on 18 July 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Secret Baby Room
Soon after Claire and her husband move to Manchester, she sees a woman and a baby in a derelict tower block that’s due for imminent demolition.
Reviewed on 18 July 2015 by Linda Wilson
Blood Fever
On a school trip to Sardinia, young James Bond has to rescue a friend’s sister from the clutches of a secret society.
Reviewed on 04 July 2015 by Linda Wilson
Death is a Welcome Guest
Magnus McFall is in prison on remand for a crime he didn’t commit. Around him, men start dying like flies – and it’s no better outside the prison walls either, as Malcolm soon finds out.
Reviewed on 04 July 2015 by Linda Wilson
Running Girl
When Chloe Dow’s body is found in a pond, Garvie Smith isn’t very impressed with the police investigation into her murder. The only problem is that Garvie’s still at school and is meant to be revising for his exams, not sticking his nose into other people’s business.
Reviewed on 04 July 2015 by Linda Wilson
Driven
Former Royal Marine Colonel Matt Straker is brought in to investigate a possible case of deliberate sabotage within the glamorous but cut-throat world of Formula 1 racing.
Reviewed on 04 July 2015 by Linda Wilson
Robert B. Parker's Cheap Shot
Spenser is hired to find a nine-year-old kidnap victim amidst gang violence in downtown Boston.
Reviewed on 20 June 2015 by Linda Wilson
Last Resort
Bob Skinner, on holiday in Spain, is asked to help out an old friend and find a missing man.
Reviewed on 20 June 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Cellar
Muna was bought from an orphanage at the age of eight by Mr and Mrs Songoli and has been forced into a life of domestic slavery. But she is a survivor …
Reviewed on 20 June 2015 by Linda Wilson
Truth Or Dare
A kidnapped man is given a choice: save his life or that of his girlfriend and baby. What decision will he make?
Reviewed on 20 June 2015 by Linda Wilson
After the Crash
A three month old baby is the sole survivor of a horrific plane crash. Two families come forward to claim the little girl, signalling the start of a long and inconclusive investigation.
Reviewed on 06 June 2015 by Linda Wilson
Behind Closed Doors
When Scarlett Rainsford is found in the UK ten years after going missing as a teenager in Greece, DCI Lou Smith tries to unravel what happened and why.
Reviewed on 06 June 2015 by Linda Wilson
Dead Men's Bones
DI Tony McLean’s superiors are keen to tidy away the case of a prominent Scottish MP who murdered his wife and two daughters before killing himself, but McLean wants to get the bottom of what drove the man to murder and suicide.
Reviewed on 06 June 2015 by Linda Wilson
Monsieur Pamplemousse and the Tangled Web
Monsieur Pamplemousse and his loyal canine sidekick Pommes Frites investigates dastardly goings-on at a restaurant where the owner has turned up dead.
Reviewed on 06 June 2015 by Linda Wilson
Urban Legends
Veerle De Keyser is being hunted and she knows it. But how can a man who’s meant to have died first in prison and then in a fire at a ruined castle be in a position to threaten her now?
Reviewed on 23 May 2015 by Linda Wilson
A Dark Inheritance
Rescuing a dog from almost certain death on a clifftop sets in train a series of events that turns teenager Michael Malone’s life upside down and promises to bring him closer to the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of his father three years ago.
Reviewed on 23 May 2015 by Linda Wilson
A Line of Blood
When Alex Mercer finds his neighbour dead in the bath, he’s caught up in a train of events that threaten everything he holds dear.
Reviewed on 23 May 2015 by Linda Wilson
Putting the Boot In
Someone is trying to put third division team Athletic out of business. Private investigator Duffy is hired to find out why.
Reviewed on 23 May 2015 by Linda Wilson
Abandon
When Pierce Oliviera died there was no shining light at the end of a tunnel, just a gloomy cavern and a lot of confused people being herded into two different lines. But Pierce has never been very good at doing what she’s told. And she doesn’t stay dead, either.
Reviewed on 08 May 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Wolves of London
Alex Locke is doing his best to put his unsuccessful foray into crime behind him and live a normal life, but when one of his daughters is threatened, Alex has to turn to an old acquaintance from prison for help, and things go rapidly downhill from there.
Reviewed on 08 May 2015 by Linda Wilson
Archangel's Shadows
Guild Hunter Ashwini Taj investigates the murder of a young woman found drained of life and mummified. Something nasty is definitely lurking in the shadows of New York.
Reviewed on 08 May 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Boy Who Killed Demons
When Henry Dudlow was 13, he started to see demons. Now he’s 15 and a half and knows that something needs to be done about them, but it’s not easy when you’re the only person who can see them.
Reviewed on 08 May 2015 by Linda Wilson
Immortal Remains
When four girls from a posh school are killed in a series of seemingly unrelated accidents, Bethan and her friends believe there’s more to the deaths than meets the eye.
Reviewed on 18 April 2015 by Linda Wilson
Forensics The Anatomy of Crime
Crime writer Val McDermid takes a fascinating look behind the scenes at the world of forensic science and how it has developed over time.
Reviewed on 18 April 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Crime Writer's Guide To Police Practice and Procedure
A guide to police practice and procedure for crime writers.
Reviewed on 18 April 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Jackdaw
A masked man abducts a wealthy banker and he gives ordinary people watching on the internet the choice of whether the victim lives or dies. Naturally, there’s not much sympathy and the verdict is death, sparking an instant internet sensation.
Reviewed on 18 April 2015 by Linda Wilson
Hostage
A plane bound for New York from Stockholm is hijacked on its way across the Atlantic. Unless Sweden and the USA accede to the terrorist’s demands, the plane will be blown up.
Reviewed on 04 April 2015 by Linda Wilson
Robot Overlords
Humanity has lost the battle for its autonomy and robots are in control of the earth. The survivors are being confined to their homes for seven years but the robots claim they’ll then leave peacefully. Robots never lie, so they say, but can they be trusted?
Reviewed on 04 April 2015 by Linda Wilson
Runner
When Sam Dryden encounters a terrified young girl, his natural instinct is to help her, but he never expected the terrifyingly organised and relentless pursuit that immediately follows.
Reviewed on 04 April 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Distance
A top security prison is not usually somewhere people want to break into. But for hit-man Simon Johanssen, it’s different. He’s got a job to do, and it’s up to old friend Charlotte Alton to help him.
Reviewed on 04 April 2015 by Linda Wilson
Betrayal
When a sniper ambushes a motorcade of Russian security force members, Ryan Drake has to decide how far he’ll go to protect Anya, the woman he once had to break out of a top security prison.
Reviewed on 21 March 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Dead In Their Vaulted Arches
After being missing for over a decade, Flavia de Luce’s mother is finally coming home to Buckshaw, but the fact that she’s returning in a lead-lined coffin is enough to dampen anyone’s enthusiasm.
Reviewed on 21 March 2015 by Linda Wilson
The New Enemy
Liam Scott, a new recruit to the elite reconnaissance platoon, is on his way to Somalia on a mission to gather intelligence about terrorists active in the area.
Reviewed on 21 March 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Shut Eye
Anna Buck has fallen apart at the seams since her son Daniel went missing. She’s convinced she can still hear his voice and so when Anna hears of a psychic who might be able to help, she jumps at the chance.
Reviewed on 21 March 2015 by Linda Wilson
Fiddle City
Ex-copper Duffy is hired to get to the bottom of a series of thefts in Heathrow Airport, otherwise known as Fiddle City.
Reviewed on 07 March 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Execution
Jeremy Fisk of the NYPD Intelligence Division has to work with Cecilia Garza, his opposite number in Mexico, to counter a threat to Mexico’s newly-appointed president on a visit to the US.
Reviewed on 07 March 2015 by Linda Wilson
Afraid
When 15-year-old Skye ends up in care, the children’s home is more like a young offenders’ institution and she has no one to turn to apart from a friend she met online. But it’s not her friend who comes to pick her up – it’s someone else entirely.
Reviewed on 07 March 2015 by Linda Wilson
Butterfly Grave
When Joshua’s uncle is injured in a fall, Rose and Skeggsie accompany him to Newcastle, but Joshua is certain they’re being followed. Is there a connection with the mysterious disappearance of his father and Rose’s mother?
Reviewed on 07 March 2015 by Linda Wilson
A Trick of the Mind
Ellie is convinced she’s been responsible for a hit and run accident and is determined to make amends, but her decision to become involved with the victim has far-reaching consequences.
Reviewed on 21 February 2015 by Linda Wilson
A Twist of the Knife
A collection of short stories bringing together vengeful spouses, ghosts and police procedurals, including the first-ever case for Roy Grace.
Reviewed on 21 February 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Ice Twins
A year after one of Sarah Moorcroft’s twins died in a tragic accident, the horrible realisation dawns that she might have made a terrible mistake about the identity of the dead twin.
Reviewed on 21 February 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Night Hunter
Elvie McCulloch’s sister disappeared while out for a run. When a woman who disappeared in similar circumstances turns up dead in dramatic circumstances, Elvie starts to fear the worst for Sophie.
Reviewed on 21 February 2015 by Linda Wilson
Avenged
When Patrick Doyle’s past comes back to haunt him, his daughter Franny finds herself caught up in a deadly game, not knowing that her own life is on the line.
Reviewed on 07 February 2015 by Linda Wilson
Found
Mickey Bolitar is still searching for his father, but he’s not the only one who has gone missing.
Reviewed on 07 February 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Burning Room
LAPD detective Harry Bosch is still working cold cases. When a man dies almost a decade after being shot, the case lands on Harry’s desk and his bosses are expecting results, as are the politicians.
Reviewed on 07 February 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Final Minute
Matt Barron has lost his memory in a car accident but he’s not sure if the people who are meant to be helping him can really be trusted, and when his past does start to catch up with him, nothing is quite what it seems.
Reviewed on 07 February 2015 by Linda Wilson
Gone
When troubled teenager Emma Thorley went missing, the police and everyone else assumed she’d run away again, but 11 years later when a body is found in woods near Blyth, it looks like there was another, far more deadly reason for her disappearance.
Reviewed on 24 January 2015 by Linda Wilson
Hour of Darkness
A female naked body is washed up near Edinburgh baffles police until a woman is found to be missing from a bloodstained flat.
Reviewed on 24 January 2015 by Linda Wilson
Killing For Keeps
When two hideously brutal killings take place within a few hours of each other, it’s not hard to find the link between the two, but bringing the killers to justice proves a lot harder for DCI Kate Daniels and her team.
Reviewed on 24 January 2015 by Linda Wilson
Spiders
Adam thought he was finished with adventure when he turned 13, but when bad things start to happen to people he’s connected with, his life is about to be turned upside down again.
Reviewed on 24 January 2015 by Linda Wilson
Killing Rachel
Rose and Joshua believe their parents are still alive, even though no one else does. Joshua is determined to work out a set of cryptic clues and Rose is caught up with events surrounding the death of Rachel, a former schoolfriend.
Reviewed on 10 January 2015 by Linda Wilson
Kingdom of Darkness
Nina Wilde has given up her job and is working through a bucket list of things she’s always wanted to do while she still has time to do them. But when one last job comes along, helping safeguard the secrets of Alexander the Great’s tomb, Nina can’t stay away despite her husband Eddie’s misgivings.
Reviewed on 10 January 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Burning Mind
Harper Flynn nearly died in an attack on a club. A year later, she’s convinced that one of the gunmen is after her, but no one else believes in his existence.
Reviewed on 10 January 2015 by Linda Wilson
The Facts of Life and Death
When a series of lone women are terrorised and forced to call home so that their mothers can witness their ordeals, the police have no useful leads. Then the sinister game starts to escalate.
Reviewed on 10 January 2015 by Linda Wilson
Cut Out
A man has been brutally murdered in the toilets of a seedy nightclub. But when a woman goes missing, DI Harland is told to prioritise the woman’s case – and his new boss wants results.
Reviewed on 27 December 2014 by Linda Wilson
Hunter Killer
While the country reels in shock from a series of suicide bombings, SAS trooper Danny Black is seconded to a covert assassination squad put together to neutralise the treat.
Reviewed on 27 December 2014 by Linda Wilson
Missing You
When a friend of Kat’s buys her a subscription to an online dating service, it’s meant to be a bit of fun, but events take an unexpected turn when Kat comes across someone from her past.
Reviewed on 27 December 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Nemesis Program
Ben Hope wants a fresh start, including marriage and a future in the clergy, but events conspire against him, whether he likes it or not.
Reviewed on 27 December 2014 by Linda Wilson
Sherlock Homes: The Man Who Never Lived And Will Never Die
A sumptuously illustrated and authoritative tour into the world of Sherlock Holmes to accompany the Museum of London’s exhibition.
Reviewed on 13 December 2014 by Linda Wilson
Tight-Lipped
Jean-Jacques Marsay and his wife Carine Dufour live a life that many in Paris envy, but their seemingly charmed existence is darkened when a woman close to them is murdered.
Reviewed on 13 December 2014 by Linda Wilson
Wanted
Danny Shanklin is still on the run, falsely accused of a massacre outside a London hotel. He has to track down the people who framed him, as well preventing a disaster of even greater proportions.
Reviewed on 13 December 2014 by Linda Wilson
Young Sherlock: Stone Cold
Sherlock has been sent to Oxford to catch up on his studies but, along with his friend Matty, they’re soon caught up in a mystery involving missing body parts.
Reviewed on 13 December 2014 by Linda Wilson
Dead Time
When Rose and Joshua’s parents go missing, everyone is baffled, including the police, but Joshua is determined to find them again.
Reviewed on 29 November 2014 by Linda Wilson
Foxglove Summer
Peter Grant takes a trip to rural Herefordshire to assist in the search for two missing children.
Reviewed on 29 November 2014 by Linda Wilson
Night After Night
A group of sceptics and believers are brought together for a week in a supposedly haunted house, under the all-seeing eye of the TV cameras.
Reviewed on 29 November 2014 by Linda Wilson
Pray For The Dying
When a senior figure is shot at a charity concert, Bob Skinner is already on the scene, having taken down one of the gunman. What follows next is a career move that he’s been dead set against for a very long time.
Reviewed on 29 November 2014 by Linda Wilson
Murder Most Unladylike
The Wells and Wong Detective Society investigates its first case, the murder of one of the teachers at Deepdean School for Girls.
Reviewed on 15 November 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Shroud Maker
The body of a woman is found floating out to sea in a small boat. The cause of death is pretty obvious – she’s been strangled. DI Wesley Peterson has to work out whether there’s a link between this death and the disappearance of another woman the previous year.
Reviewed on 15 November 2014 by Linda Wilson
White Lies
Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd is in big trouble. A rescue mission goes horribly wrong and he ends up in the hands of al-Qaeda. But fortunately for Spider, his M15 controller Charlotte Button is a woman who doesn’t always feel bound to follow the rules.
Reviewed on 15 November 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Danger Game
A routine enquiry for Delaney & Co leads to a brutal beating for one of their employees and takes Travis deep into the world of gang warfare on the Slade Lane estate.
Reviewed on 01 November 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Extremist
A series of apparently anti-American acts of violence and extremism threaten the UK’s much-vaunted special relationship with the US. DCI John Kerr has the task of identifying the connections and stopping the escalating violence.
Reviewed on 01 November 2014 by Linda Wilson
Robert B. Parker's Wonderland
When a developer trying to buy the condo where Henry Cimoli has an apartment resorts to dubious tactics, Henry calls in a favour from Spenser.
Reviewed on 01 November 2014 by Linda Wilson
Art of Deception
A mummified body is found in the remains of a deserted summerhouse in a country park. Kate Hanson and Birmingham’s Unsolved Crimes Unit have to delve into the past to make sense of the present.
Reviewed on 18 October 2014 by Linda Wilson
Game
As Jasper Dent proclaims in one of his tattoos, he hunts killers. It’s an unusual job for a teenager, but he’s well-qualified, as he’s the son of America’s most notorious serial killer.
Reviewed on 18 October 2014 by Linda Wilson
Masters of War
SAS trooper Danny Black leads a small team of fellow soldiers riding shotgun for an MI6 agent who is attempting to make contact with one of the rebel factions in war-torn Syria.
Reviewed on 18 October 2014 by Linda Wilson
Paths of the Dead
The body of a young man is found at a Neolithic stone circle in Glasgow. DI Michael McNab thinks the killing is drug-related but forensic scientist Rhona Macleod isn’t convinced.
Reviewed on 18 October 2014 by Linda Wilson
Lost Worlds 2: Shadow Creatures
In the search for new DNA and a cure for his paralysis, Calum Challenger and his friends plan to hunt down a shadowy creature in Hong Kong. But when Calum's taken hostage and taken to New Mexico, no one knows he's gone. And he's not the only one in trouble.
Reviewed on 18 October 2014 by Linda Wilson
Wild People
When a young woman dies in the back of Glyn Capaldi’s car after a botched operation to catch a gang of car thieves, he’s determined not to let her death be swept under the carpet as nothing more than a tragic accident.
Reviewed on 04 October 2014 by Linda Wilson
Seconds Away
Mickey Bolitar and his friends find themselves in deep water again when one of their group is shot.
Reviewed on 04 October 2014 by Linda Wilson
Smart
When Kieran discovers the body of a homeless man in the river, everyone seems determined to put this down to nothing more than an accident, but he’s sure there’s more to the man’s death than that.
Reviewed on 04 October 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Death Collector
Joe Parker’s job is at risk, so it’s not the best time to get embroiled in a possible miscarriage of justice from several years ago. His brother Sam is under pressure to spend more time with his wife and family, but then another case comes along and promises are set aside.
Reviewed on 04 October 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Demons of Ghent
People are falling from the tops of buildings in Ghent. Did they fall or were they pushed? Veerle suspects the latter might be true, but she’s already in enough trouble at home and really shouldn’t get involved.
Reviewed on 20 September 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Ballad of Mila
Two gangs are fighting for control of Venetia in north-east Italy. Mila Zago is a woman out for revenge, skilfully playing both sides off against each other as the body count mounts up around her.
Reviewed on 20 September 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Lifers' Club
When archaeologist Alan Cadbury starts to look into the case of a so-called honour killing, he doesn’t expect to end up under threat, but someone wants to make sure he keeps his nose – and his trowel – out of things that don’t concern him.
Reviewed on 20 September 2014 by Linda Wilson
Can Anybody Help Me?
Yvonne is struggling after the birth of her first child. She’s moved to Dublin because of her husband’s job and hasn’t yet built up a support network, so instead, she turns to an internet site for help. But not everyone on there is all they seem.
Reviewed on 20 September 2014 by Linda Wilson
Cracked
Meda’s on her own now her mum’s dead, but she still does her best to live up to the values her mum instilled in her. But it can be hard at times, especially the bit about not eating people’s souls.
Reviewed on 06 September 2014 by Linda Wilson
That Dark Remembered Day
When Stephen is told his mother isn’t well, he knows he has to face up to his past and return to the village where he grew up, but he dreads going back. The past is something he simply doesn’t want to have to deal with, but that isn’t an option any more.
Reviewed on 06 September 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Death Trade
Sean Dillon, former IRA enforcer-turned-member of the security service, has to find a way of getting to a Iranian nuclear scientist before al-Qaeda do.
Reviewed on 06 September 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Final Silence
When Rea Carlisle forces open a locked door in the house of her dead uncle, she finds a scrapbook with a difference, not full of family photos, but of things like fingernails and hair, mementos of his victims.
Reviewed on 06 September 2014 by Linda Wilson
Shelter
When a girl at Mickey Bolitar’s school goes missing, he teams up with an unlikely group of friends to track her down.
Reviewed on 23 August 2014 by Linda Wilson
Shredder
Finn McGuire is caught in the middle of a gang war that’s getting nastier by the minute and is in danger from both sides.
Reviewed on 23 August 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Intercept
Six people foil the hijacking of a plane and become instant celebrities, but New York police investigator Jeremy Fisk is convinced that there is more to the attempted hijacking than meets the eye.
Reviewed on 23 August 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Valhalla Prophecy
Archaeologist Nina Wilde and ex-SAS husband Eddie Chase are in a race against time with the bad guys to find Valhalla, the legendary Hall of the Slain.
Reviewed on 23 August 2014 by Linda Wilson
Heartman
1965. Bristol. When a young black woman goes missing the police don’t seem particularly interested. But local councillor Earl Linney wants her found, and thinks former Barbados cop JT Ellington is the man for the job.
Reviewed on 09 August 2014 by Linda Wilson
Stalk Me
Beth Jordan comes round after a serious car accident to discover she’s been filmed on numerous mobile phones. The footage quickly goes viral on the internet, but then steadily starts to disappear. Beth needs to know why.
Reviewed on 09 August 2014 by Linda Wilson
Taking the Fall
Up and coming young jockey Duncan Claymore wants revenge on the men who ruined his father’s life and now he’s in a position to get it.
Reviewed on 09 August 2014 by Linda Wilson
The New Watch
A new type of Other is stalking the world, threatening not only the Light and the Dark, but also the Twilight itself. It’s up to Higher Light Magician Anton Gorodetsky to see what can be done to neutralise this threat.
Reviewed on 09 August 2014 by Linda Wilson
Tide
Sarah Midnight is a demon hunter, caught up in a deadly war and not knowing who to trust: Sean, who’s already lied to her, or the mysterious Nicholas who she knows almost nothing about. If she makes the wrong choice, she could die.
Reviewed on 26 July 2014 by Linda Wilson
A Dark and Twisted Tide
Lacey Flint has had enough of being a detective. A transfer to the Marine Unit suits her very nicely, but trouble seems to follow Lacey around no matter where she goes, and when bodies start to turn up in her beloved river, she can’t just sit on the sidelines.
Reviewed on 26 July 2014 by Linda Wilson
Children of War
Inspector Bruno Courrèges has to juggle an investigation into the brutal death of an undercover French cop with the clandestine return to France of Sami, a young Muslim man who appears to have been involved in terrorist activities in Afghanistan.
Reviewed on 26 July 2014 by Linda Wilson
Hard Kill
When an American diplomat goes missing, ex-Special Forces soldier Jon Reznick is asked to join the team charged with finding him.
Reviewed on 26 July 2014 by Linda Wilson
Eeny Meeny
Two people are trapped with no food or water. There’s only one way out – kill or be killed.
Reviewed on 12 July 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Bones Beneath
Tom Thorne, newly reinstated to the murder squad, gets landed with a job that he really doesn’t want: accompanying psychopathic murderer Stuart Nicklin to a remote island off the Welsh Coast to look for the body of his first victim.
Reviewed on 12 July 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Burning
Coroner Jenny Cooper has to dig deep for the truth in a horrific case of family annihilation in the Wye Valley.
Reviewed on 12 July 2014 by Linda Wilson
Web of Darkness
Lily is thrilled when an incredibly attractive boy wants to be friends with her on Facebook and accepts his invitation despite the fact that she’s never met him. But is he really all he makes out to be?
Reviewed on 12 July 2014 by Linda Wilson
Extraordinary People
Former forensics expert Enzo Macleod is determined to get to the bottom of a series of unsolved murders. First up is the disappearance – and presumed death – of a man who went missing in Paris 20 years ago.
Reviewed on 28 June 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Kill
A killer is at large in London and police officers are being targeted. DC Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent need to find the link between the cases before the body count mounts even higher.
Reviewed on 28 June 2014 by Linda Wilson
Young Gifted and Dead
When a teenager at an exclusive boarding school, St Jude’s Academy, is found dead in a lake in the grounds, the school is keen for her death to be judged a suicide. But one of the dead girl’s roommates isn’t so sure. Is there more to Alyssa’s death than meets the eye?
Reviewed on 28 June 2014 by Linda Wilson
Casting the First Stone
Diana Porteous, young widow, art collector and semi-reformed thief gets involved in the shadier side of the fine art world.
Reviewed on 14 June 2014 by Linda Wilson
Dead Line
Daniel Trent is a specialist in hostage negotiation, but this time it’s personal. It’s his own girlfriend who has gone missing, and to find out the truth of her disappearance, Trent first has to negotiate the freedom of the man he thinks is responsible.
Reviewed on 14 June 2014 by Linda Wilson
Respect
Her mother has run off to Spain with a bloke, leaving 15-year-old Chantelle to look after her younger brother and keep the debt collectors at bay. But her brother is in with a gang and Chantelle is on over her head and sinking fast
Reviewed on 14 June 2014 by Linda Wilson
Cross and Burn
Carol Jordan has cut Tony Hill out of her life. Or at least she thinks she has. Women who bear a resemblance to Carol are turning up dead, and there’s a very unlikely suspect in the frame.
Reviewed on 31 May 2014 by Linda Wilson
Incinerator
Finn Maguire owns and runs his own gym. He’s finding his feet after the murder of his stepfather and is doing pretty well, but his partner, Delroy, is being targeted by loan sharks and it’s not in Finn’s nature to stay out of trouble for very long.
Reviewed on 31 May 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Hangman's Song
Edinburgh is suffering a spate of suicides, all by hanging, all seemingly unconnected. Acting Superintendent Duguid wants them all wrapped up nice and tidily and, more importantly, quickly, but DI McLean doesn’t agree. He thinks there’s more to the deaths than meets the eye.
Reviewed on 31 May 2014 by Linda Wilson
True Colours
Spider Shepherd is undercover again, this time as a close personal protection advisor to a Russian oligarch whose friends who are being targeted by a sniper. It’s Spider’s job to advice on security, but he’s also considering some extra-curricular activity of a type his employers would very much frown on.
Reviewed on 31 May 2014 by Linda Wilson
Sweet Damage
When Tim finds what seems to be the perfect flat for a cheap rent, he’s expecting a catch, but doesn’t expect it to come in the form of Anna, the beautiful and mysterious owner.
Reviewed on 03 May 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Harper Connelly Omnibus
When Harper Connelly was struck by lightning she gained the ability to find dead bodies. It's not the easiest way to earn a living, but there’s always plenty of demand for her services.
Reviewed on 03 May 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Lawless Kind
Joe Hunter goes across the border to Mexico to bring back a child that’s been abducted by its father. The only problem is that the father is high up in one of the powerful drug cartels and has no intention of giving up the boy without a fight.
Reviewed on 03 May 2014 by Linda Wilson
A Lovely Way to Burn
With people dying like flies from a flu-like plague, what does one death matter among thousands? Despite what’s happening in the rest of the country, TV presenter Stevie Flint is determined to find out the truth about her boyfriend’s sudden death.
Reviewed on 19 April 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Ultimate Truth
Travis Delaney’s parents have been killed in a car crash. At the funeral, Travis is convinced he’s being watched and his attempts to get to the bottom of that mystery are going to prove to be dangerous.
Reviewed on 19 April 2014 by Linda Wilson
Under a Silent Moon
DCI Louisa Smith is called to a murder scene in a farm cottage where a young woman has been beaten to death. Then someone in the same village seemingly commits suicide by driving into a quarry and Louisa has to determine whether there’s any connection between the two events.
Reviewed on 19 April 2014 by Linda Wilson
World After
The angels are in control of the world, with scattered groups of human resistance doing their best to fight back. Against the backdrop of a ruined world, Penryn is searching for her sister again.
Reviewed on 19 April 2014 by Linda Wilson
Deep Shelter
DC Nick Belsey is driven down into the miles of abandoned tunnels under the streets of London in search for a missing woman. As it was his fault she was there in the first place, his job will be on the line if that embarrassing fact comes out.
Reviewed on 05 April 2014 by Linda Wilson
Hurt
Detective Lucy Black of Northern Ireland’s Public Protection Unit is called in to identify the body of a dead teenager. Someone is preying on vulnerable girls and Lucy needs to find a missing teenager before she too ends up dead.
Reviewed on 05 April 2014 by Linda Wilson
Saving Silence
When Imogen saves Sam from a hit and run, her problems are only just starting. She has information someone wants and they’re quite willing to resort to violence to get it off her.
Reviewed on 05 April 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Shadow Collector
Lilith Benley has served 18 years in prison for the murder of two teenagers although she still protests her innocence. When a woman is found murdered nearby, it seems like the past isn’t going to stay buried.
Reviewed on 05 April 2014 by Linda Wilson
Last to Die
The families of children, already no strangers to violence, are being targeted and killed. Can a remote boarding school in the Maine wilderness provide a safe haven or will it prove to be just another hunting ground?
Reviewed on 22 March 2014 by Linda Wilson
Thirteen
Most boys can expect a present of some sort when they turn 14, but in Adam’s case he’ll be lucky to be still alive. The People, and their sinister leader, Coron, are after Adam, and they’re very ruthless indeed.
Reviewed on 22 March 2014 by Linda Wilson
Never Coming Back
A family go missing under unusual circumstances, disappearing from their family home as though they’ve simply vanished in mid air. Private investigator David Raker is determined to find out what’s happened to them and why.
Reviewed on 22 March 2014 by Linda Wilson
A Song for the Dying
Former Detective Inspector Ash Henderson is still in prison for the murder of his brother, a crime he didn’t commit, but a killer from his past has stuck again, and Ash’s particular brand of skills are needed on the outside. But can he stay out of the clutches of the vengeful Mrs Kerrigan?
Reviewed on 22 March 2014 by Linda Wilson
Angelfall
The world has been reduced to ruins. All Penryn is trying to do is stay alive and look after her disabled sister and mentally unstable mother. That’s easier said than done when the earth is still under attack from angels.
Reviewed on 08 March 2014 by Linda Wilson
Silent Saturday
Veerle longs to escape from her controlling, neurotic mother and the boredom of life in suburban Brussels. A secret society devoted to exploring hidden places provides exactly what she needs, but it also brings danger.
Reviewed on 08 March 2014 by Linda Wilson
Bet Your Life
A boy is found in Port Sentinel, badly beaten and left for dead. Jess Tennant doesn’t want to get involved, but when her cousin and a friend plead with her to do some detective work, Jess finds herself inexorably drawn into the mystery of what really did happen to the seemingly popular and exceedingly rich Seb Dawson.
Reviewed on 08 March 2014 by Linda Wilson
Young Sherlock Holmes: Knife Edge
Sherlock has nearly found his way back to England after his adventures in the Far East, but before he gets home, he has to stop over a little longer that he intended in Ireland to help his brother Mycroft investigate the strange case of a man who claims he can talk to the dead.
Reviewed on 08 March 2014 by Linda Wilson
Sacrifice
Ryan Drake and his Shepherd team specialize in finding people and bringing them back. This time they’re off to Afghanistan to bring back a senior CIA operative held by insurgents.
Reviewed on 22 February 2014 by Linda Wilson
Stay Alive
A family canoeing trip leads to terror for teenager Jess Grainger when she ends up helping a mysterious woman escape from the men with guns who are clearly trying to kill her. Jess soon discovers that they’ll kill anyone who gets in their way.
Reviewed on 22 February 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Toy Taker
Someone is taking children from the safety of their houses in the middle of the night, getting in through locked doors while their parents are sleeping. It’s DI Sean Corrigan’s job to find them.
Reviewed on 22 February 2014 by Linda Wilson
High Rollers
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Tom Patrick is first on the scene when the engine of an aircraft on the ground at Los Angeles airport tears itself apart killing three men and injuring six more. And it’s not the only 737 that has problems as the death toll starts to rise.
Reviewed on 22 February 2014 by Linda Wilson
Six Years
Six years ago, Natalie, the love of Jake Fisher’s life, dumped him and married another man. At her wedding, Jake promised to stay away from her, but six years later when he discovers that her husband has died, he finds that promise becomes harder and harder to keep.
Reviewed on 08 February 2014 by Linda Wilson
Natural Causes
A series of high-profile murders in Edinburgh need to be investigated, but DI Tony McLean is obsessed with an older death, the brutal killing of a young woman entombed in the cellar of an old house, unearthed during building works.
Reviewed on 08 February 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Shadow Tracer
On the day her daughter’s school bus is involved in an accident, Sarah Keller’s world comes apart at the scenes, but not for the obvious reasons. Sarah flees the hospital, accused of abducting her own daughter. Pursued by both the FBI and some very nasty criminals, it’s Sarah’s job to keep them both safe.
Reviewed on 08 February 2014 by Linda Wilson
Monument to Murder
Two sets of skeletal remains are found beneath a sand dune near Bamburgh Castle on the Northumberland coast. It’s a case that couldn’t get much colder, but DCI Kate Daniels is determined to catch the killer.
Reviewed on 08 February 2014 by Linda Wilson
Knife Edge
Robert Naysmith is playing a dangerous game and it’s been made more so by the secret he’s shared with his girlfriend, Kim. Can she live with the knowledge that he’s a killer or will she betray him?
Reviewed on 25 January 2014 by Linda Wilson
Something in the Blood
When Honey Driver is given the job of acting as liaison between the Bath Hotels Association and the local police, she isn’t expecting to get involved in a murder investigation. But it’s certainly more exciting than worrying about washing up and fending off her matchmaking mother.
Reviewed on 25 January 2014 by Linda Wilson
Hard Road
Jon Reznick is a hard man doing a difficult job. When he fails to carry out an assassination, he unwittingly makes his 11-year-old daughter a pawn in a very dangerous game.
Reviewed on 25 January 2014 by Linda Wilson
Dead People
DS Glyn Capaldi, still in exile in the Welsh valleys, is called out to a skeleton discovered during excavations for a wind farm. The body is missing its head and hands. Glyn’s belief that there’s a local connection doesn’t convince his superiors.
Reviewed on 11 January 2014 by Linda Wilson
A Cry in the Night
When two children go missing in the Lake District in winter, DS Zoe Barnes and her boss DI Sam Taylor are called in to investigate. Tensions in a small village are running high and there’s even talk of witchcraft.
Reviewed on 11 January 2014 by Linda Wilson
Broke
Marriage to the feckless Mark isn’t a bed of roses, but Amy loves him and their children, but someone is determined to break up her marriage and doesn’t care how far Amy’s life gets ruined in the process.
Reviewed on 11 January 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Road to Hell
A body of a half-naked woman is discovered in a park in Edinburgh. It looks like murder, and when a second body is found, also unclothed, DS Alice Rice wonders if the two cases are connected.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by Linda Wilson
The Doll's House
A crime scene has been posed to look like the interior of a doll’s house, complete with a badly mutilated victim. DI Phil Brennan has to struggle with an unfamiliar team and an increasingly distant wife, as well as a series of seemingly unrelated murders.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by Linda Wilson
The Swedish Girl
When a student is brutally murdered in a shared house, her flatmates come under suspicion and at first it looks like this will be an open and shut case, but policeman’s daughter, Kirsty Wilson, isn’t so sure.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by Linda Wilson
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
Precious Thing
TV reporter Rachel Walsh is called to a press conference about a missing woman, only to discover that it her oldest friend who’s gone missing.
Reviewed on 30 November 2013 by Linda Wilson
Death at the Clos du Lac
When a man is found dead in a swimming pool at an exclusive and secretive sanatorium, Inspector Lucas Rocco wants to know why he ended up like that, and he’s not inclined to take any notice of being warned off the case.
Reviewed on 30 November 2013 by Linda Wilson
Gimme Shelter
Witness Protection officer Ros Gilet has to keep the feisty Tyra Rea out of the hands of Ukrainian crime boss, Yaroslav. Not an easy task, and at times, Tyra seems to be her own worst enemy.
Reviewed on 30 November 2013 by Linda Wilson
The Resistance Man
Against a backdrop of rural France, Inspector Bruno Courrèges, Chef de Police in St Denis, has to deal with a series of burglaries that culminates in a vicious murder.
Reviewed on 16 November 2013 by Linda Wilson
Speaking From Among the Bones
When the tomb of St Tancred in the village of Bishop’s Lacey is opened after 500 years, naturally young sleuth Flavia de Luce wants to be there, and succeeds in taking the first look into the tomb. But the body she finds isn’t the one everyone expected her to see.
Reviewed on 16 November 2013 by Linda Wilson
The Magus of Hay
The discovery of an old man’s body at the foot of a waterfall looks like it could have been an accident, but DI Frannie Bliss isn’t so sure, and when he sees the contents of the dead man’s home, he calls in diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins, for a second opinion.
Reviewed on 16 November 2013 by Linda Wilson
Stop Dead
DI Geraldine Steel investigates when a businessman is brutally killed and his wife and her young lover are automatically suspects, but then another murder takes place by the same method.
Reviewed on 01 November 2013 by Linda Wilson
The Stranger You Know
A serial killer is at work, and there are echoes of a cold case from 20 years ago. Maeve Kerrigan is shocked when suspicion falls on her obnoxious colleague DI Josh Derwent.
Reviewed on 01 November 2013 by Linda Wilson
Everyone Lies
When drug addicts start turning up dead, the police don’t seem to be taking much notice until a minor celebrity dies, then the case gets handed to DI Kate Simms, who ends up asking for help from the man who ruined her career five years ago.
Reviewed on 01 November 2013 by Linda Wilson
The Voice of the Spirits
An elderly art collector is found dead in his gated mansion with a hole in his forehead and a tribal mask from Papua New Guinea over his face. Commandant Michel de Palma is called to investigate.
Reviewed on 18 October 2013 by Linda Wilson
Already Dead
The Peak District is drenched in rain and a naked body is found in a drainage ditch. DS Ben Cooper is still off work after the arson attach that killed his fiancée and DS Diane Cooper has her work cut out to keep his private life out of her investigation.
Reviewed on 18 October 2013 by Linda Wilson
Next to Die
Brothers Joe and Sam Parker have chosen different paths in life. It’s Sam’s job to catch criminals and it’s Joe’s job to defend them.
Reviewed on 18 October 2013 by Linda Wilson
The Sea on Fire
It should have been a simple trip to the Red Sea for dive guides Kim and Garland, but add drugs and booze to the equation and things start to go badly wrong.
Reviewed on 04 October 2013 by Linda Wilson
Rules of Honour
When his best friend’s father is brutally murdered, Joe will be there for him, although he doesn’t want Rink to lower himself to the same level as his father’s murderers, but it soon becomes clear that there is no simple morality they can cling to.
Reviewed on 04 October 2013 by Linda Wilson
The Dying Hours
Tom Thorne, now busted back into uniform, is convinced that there’s more to a cluster of deaths among the elderly than simply suicides. But he’s the only one who wants to investigate further.
Reviewed on 20 September 2013 by Linda Wilson
Cold Killing
DI Sean Corrigan is convinced that he’s got a serial killer on his hands, but as there is no apparent link between the crimes, he’s got an uphill struggle to convince anyone else of his theory.
Reviewed on 20 September 2013 by Linda Wilson
