Review Archive
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Kill and Tell
DI Will Wagstaffe is desperate to find evidence to exonerate a subordinate of the murder for which he is on remand, but the disappearance of a man with Sicilian ancestry is a distraction.
Reviewed on 04 September 2014 by Chris Roberts
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
Artefacts of the Dead
Critically injured DI Bob Valentine is recalled from convalescence to investigate two horrifying murders. His investigations are hampered by an anxious by-the-book divisional commander and a series of ‘visions’ that leave him doubting his own sanity.
Reviewed on 23 August 2014 by John Cleal
Black Chalk
Six new Oxford students form an instant friendship. At the Freshers’ Fair they sign up with the mysterious Games Society and The Game – an elaborate mixture of luck and consequences emerges. Early penalties are trivial but become more humiliating as they are played out against a background of changing relationships which inevitably lead to tragedy.
Reviewed on 23 August 2014 by John Cleal
Con Law
Law professor John Bookman visits an old student who is alarmed that his client’s fracking operations are causing serious environmental damage.
Reviewed on 23 August 2014 by Chris Roberts
Gone Girl
It is the fifth wedding anniversary of Nick and Amy Dunne but they are not to spend it together because Amy disappears. The police believe that her husband is responsible, though he denies it and they can’t prove it.
Reviewed on 23 August 2014 by Arnold Taylor
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
Someone To Watch OVer Me
Reykjavik lawyer Thora Gudmundsdottir is hired by a deeply unpleasant and manipulative child sex offender with a view to overturning the conviction of a fellow inmate in his secure unit. Her investigations are hampered by lies, half-truths and cover-ups.
Reviewed on 23 August 2014 by John Cleal
Spring Tide
On Nordkoster beach in 1987, a young boy, hidden in the dunes, is sole witness as three men bury a heavily pregnant woman up to her neck in sand as the tide rolls in. Twenty four years later, a young police student is investigating cold cases and selects the still-unsolved beach crime for her final assignment.
Reviewed on 23 August 2014 by Tracy Johnson
The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken
When the father of a top Pakistani cricketer is poisoned at a post-match dinner in Delhi, the clues appear to point Most Private Investigator Vish Puri towards an international illegal betting syndicate, but is there a more personal motive behind the killing?
Reviewed on 23 August 2014 by Sylvia Wilson
The Cinderella Killer
Struggling actor Charles Paris finds himself investigating a dead body under a pier and the disappearance of a dancer amidst shambolic rehearsals for a panto.
Reviewed on 23 August 2014 by Sharon Wheeler
The Dog Killer of Utica
Eliot Conte’s dubious PI past comes back to haunt him after a series of violent assaults on close personal friends, and their dogs.
Reviewed on 23 August 2014 by Chris Roberts
