Review Archive
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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 Edge Of Normal
Recovering kidnap survivor Reeve LeClaire is asked to help a young girl rescued from a similar situation and unintentionally becomes involved in the hunt for a vicious sexual predator who may be holding other girls captive.
Reviewed on 06 September 2014 by John Cleal
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
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec
Paris police Commissaire Adamsberg and his team visit rural Ordebec where a girl’s visions of a medieval hoard presage four deaths.
Reviewed on 06 September 2014 by Chris Roberts
The Mangle Street Murders
Noted ‘personal’ detective Sidney Grice begrudgingly accepts help from his ward March Middleton to solve a series of brutal knife murders which are terrifying the East End of Victorian London.
Reviewed on 06 September 2014 by John Cleal
The Queen's Man
John Shakespeare is ordered to investigate a plot to free Mary, Queen of Scots, but discovers its roots go deep into his native Warwickshire and threaten his own family. How far will he go to protect them?
Reviewed on 06 September 2014 by John Cleal
The Silkworm
PI Cormoran Strike gets caught up in London’s literary community when he investigates the disappearance of an unpopular writer.
Reviewed on 06 September 2014 by Sharon Wheeler
A Nasty Piece of Work
Lemuel Gunn has been forcibly retired by the CIA and is seeking to make a living as a private detective. Enter the alluring Ornella Neppi who asks him to locate a man called Emilio Gava, a drug dealer who she suspects is about to jump the $125,000 bail posted by her uncle. Needing the money and sexually attracted to her, he agrees.
Reviewed on 06 September 2014 by Arnold Taylor
Atonement of Blood
An assassination attempt is made on Colgu, King of Cashel. Fidelma, his sister, decides to try to find out who did it. A long journey ensues in which she makes good use of her skills as a lawyer.
Reviewed on 06 September 2014 by Sylvia Maughan
A Letter of Mary
Mary Russell Holmes and her husband Sherlock’s retirement is interrupted when a figure from Mary’s past arrives with a gift – an inlaid box containing a stained papyrus which could prove a biblical bombshell. When the visitor is run down a day later, the Holmes investigate her murder and its motives.
Reviewed on 06 September 2014 by John Cleal
Cockroaches
The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room in Bangkok. Detective Harry Hole is despatched to investigate but few people are willing to talk and he once again faces danger from hidden adversaries.
Reviewed on 06 September 2014 by Tracy Johnson
Forty Days Without Shadow
When the theft of a valued native drum and the killing of a reindeer breeder occur within a few days of each other, the Reindeer Police face more than arctic winter conditions in their efforts to secure justice.
Reviewed on 04 September 2014 by Chris Roberts
