Review Archive
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The Hunting Season
A Korean/American couple ask English detective Daniel Leicester, who lives in Bologna, to find their son Ryan. Ryan has gone missing in the city while visiting for work.
Reviewed on 30 April 2022 by Sylvia Maughan
The Long, Long Afternoon
The disappearance of housewife and mother Joyce Haney opens the lid on life in Santa Monica in the 1950s, with all its prejudices, restrictions, moralities and longings. Policeman Mick Blanke has to lift that lid completely to expose the truth.
Reviewed on 30 April 2022 by Kati Barr-Taylor
The Jigsaw Man
A PTSD-ridden police inspector is back on duty when body parts are discovered, distributed across her patch. This takes her back to the horror of dealing with a serial killer nicknamed the Jigsaw Man. This time, however, she doesn’t know if she can cope with the horror of it again.
Reviewed on 30 April 2022 by Kerry Hood
Find Her First
Paramedic Stef Campbell is missing and there is some suspicion that her husband, Andy, also a paramedic, is responsible for her disappearance. Nothing is as it seems, however.
Reviewed on 30 April 2022 by John Verpeleti
The Corpse in the Waxworks
Henri Bencolin of the Seine and head of detectives for the Parisian police faces one of his most baffling cases when a young women heads into the Gallery of Horrors at a waxworks and is found murdered in the River Seine the following day, then her friend is discovered dead and garishly displayed inside the same museum.
Reviewed on 30 April 2022 by John Cleal
The Kobalt Dossier
Evan Ryder returns to Washington to find her twin sister’s two children are missing. Her secret intelligence unit has been axed, but the Nemesis organisation still wants her dead.
Reviewed on 30 April 2022 by John Cleal
The Last Taxi Driver
Lou Bishoff, a taxi driver in Gentry, North Mississippi, spends a long day moving customers around town pondering their problems, and his own.
Reviewed on 26 March 2022 by Chris Roberts
The Unusual Suspect
The true story of a would-be Robin Hood, a man who robbed banks and betting shops, and for an impressive time managed to evade capture.
Reviewed on 26 March 2022 by Chris Roberts
Bloody Foreigners
A racist attack in London’s Chinatown challenges local police, but luckily the brilliant, troubled, Singaporean DI Stanley Low is in town to help.
Reviewed on 26 March 2022 by Chris Roberts
The Dying Day
Persis Wadia, India’s first female detective, returns to investigate the disappearance of an academic and a valuable copy of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Reviewed on 26 March 2022 by Chris Roberts
The Girl Who Died
A young woman from Reykjavik answers an advert to work as a teacher for two girls in a remote village. Amidst hostility, recurring nightmares and visions of a ghost she tries to find out what’s been happening in the area, but the locals will do anything to protect their secrets.
Reviewed on 26 March 2022 by Ewa Sherman
Girls Who Lie
When a feckless single mother goes missing it is assumed that she has committed suicide. But then a decomposed body is found seven months later hidden on the lava fields of the west coast of Iceland and police officers Emma and Saevar find themselves heading up a gruesome murder investigation.
Reviewed on 26 March 2022 by Viv Beeby
