Review Archive
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Kickback
A soldier returning from Afghanistan holds his family hostage in an attempt to persuade police to investigate the death of his stable lad brother – and DI Nick Dixon is soon in the thick of the action
Reviewed on 20 June 2015 by Sharon Wheeler
Inquest
Coroner Dr Mike Wilson is dragged into a morass of corruption and killing as he conducts an inquest into the apparent suicide of the drug-addicted son of a government minister.
Reviewed on 20 June 2015 by John Cleal
For The Dead
The purchase of a used phone exposes Poke Rafferty and his family to danger from a man with very powerful connections.
Reviewed on 20 June 2015 by Chris Roberts
Die Again
Six years ago, a group of tourists disappeared on safari in Botswana. Only one escaped barely alive. Now in Boston a well-known hunter and taxidermist is found hung up and gutted like a deer. As Detective Jane Rizzoli investigates, connections emerge between the two incidents.
Reviewed on 08 June 2015 by Sylvia Wilson
A Man's Head
Chief Inspector Maigret embarks on an audacious scheme to prove the innocence of a man awaiting execution and must confront a killer convinced of his own intellectual superiority.
Reviewed on 06 June 2015 by John Cleal
African Sky
In a wartime RAF training camp in Rhodesia, a beautiful WAAF is found murdered. Local policewoman Pip Lovejoy thinks Squadron Leader Paul Bryant knows more than he is telling.
Reviewed on 06 June 2015 by Chris Roberts
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
Camille
Anne Forestier, the new woman in Camille Verhoeven's life, goes into a toilet in a fashionable shopping quarter and runs into three armed men just on the point of carrying out a robbery.
Reviewed on 06 June 2015 by Arnold Taylor
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
Face Off
Eleven short stories featuring some of the best known protagonists and authors in the field, set mainly in America and covering most types of crime with the occasional twist of horror or the supernatural.
Reviewed on 06 June 2015 by John Cleal
Loser's Corner
Policeman and club boxer George Crozat, facing to the end of his career in the ring, accepts an offer to make a profit with his fists – and becomes a pawn in a dangerous game where powerful men will go to any lengths to hide the past.
Reviewed on 06 June 2015 by John Cleal
