Review Archive
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Whiskers of the Lion
Sheriff Robertson is frustrated that he is unable to locate a young Amish woman under threat from a drug gang, and feels worse when her friend is found tortured and killed.
Reviewed on 01 August 2015 by Chris Roberts
A Song of Shadows
PI Charlie Parker’s recovery from life-threatening injuries in a small US town is hijacked by horrific secrets dating back to the second world war.
Reviewed on 01 August 2015 by Sharon Wheeler
Into the Fire
A man is found dead in the ruins of a hotel in the French city of Orleans. Police captain Ines Picaut has to find out what links him to France’s most famous heroine, Joan of Arc, who’s been dead for 500 years.
Reviewed on 01 August 2015 by Sharon Wheeler
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
Closer Than You Think
Faith Frye is driving over to the old house that she has recently inherited from her grandmother, when a young woman appears in the road. Faith swerves and crashes her car. She survives the accident but appears to have stumbled upon a horrendous mystery which leaves her in mortal danger.
Reviewed on 18 July 2015 by Sylvia Maughan
Happiness Is Easy
A misunderstanding transforms a kidnapping into an opportunity for the intended target, but extreme danger for a totally innocent party.
Reviewed on 18 July 2015 by Chris Roberts
Helsinki Noir
Under the surface of a peaceful Finnish social democracy lie some disturbing undercurrents, tales of society’s most damaged, in this dark collection of short stories.
Reviewed on 18 July 2015 by Chris Roberts
Kitty Peck and The Child of Ill Fortune
Kitty Peck is the reluctant heiress to Paradise, the criminal East End empire of her grandmother Lady Ginger. She is reunited with her estranged brother in Paris, and is persuaded to take a child back to London – but it is soon clear someone is determined to kill the little boy.
Reviewed on 18 July 2015 by John Cleal
North of Boston
Pirio Kasparov is rescued from the shipwreck of her friend Ned’s lobster boat. It is written off as a hit-and-run accident, but Pirio is not convinced and decides to investigate for herself.
Reviewed on 18 July 2015 by Sylvia Wilson
One Boy Missing
Detective Sergeant Bart Moy returns to his fading outback home town after the accidental death of his son and becomes involved with a child abduction and murder investigation while trying to work out his own problems.
Reviewed on 18 July 2015 by John Cleal
Silver Bullets
Mexican detective Edgar ‘Lefty’ Mendieta investigates a murder – there are plenty of suspects, but the use of a silver bullet is something new.
Reviewed on 18 July 2015 by Chris Roberts
