Review Archive
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The Treasure Hunt
Inspector Montalbano is short of work – so when a friend asks if a young student might study the inspector’s methods of solving crimes the inspector feels he has no option but to agree. Subsequently he enlists the young student’s help when the crime rate starts to pick up.
Reviewed on 05 March 2014 by Sylvia Maughan
Sacrifice
Ryan Drake and his Shepherd team specialize in finding people and bringing them back. This time they’re off to Afghanistan to bring back a senior CIA operative held by insurgents.
Reviewed on 22 February 2014 by Linda Wilson
Stay Alive
A family canoeing trip leads to terror for teenager Jess Grainger when she ends up helping a mysterious woman escape from the men with guns who are clearly trying to kill her. Jess soon discovers that they’ll kill anyone who gets in their way.
Reviewed on 22 February 2014 by Linda Wilson
The Toy Taker
Someone is taking children from the safety of their houses in the middle of the night, getting in through locked doors while their parents are sleeping. It’s DI Sean Corrigan’s job to find them.
Reviewed on 22 February 2014 by Linda Wilson
Black Fridays
Jason Stafford, an outstanding Wall Street trader, has just been released from prison, having been found guilty of fixing the books. He is unemployable in his former capacity and is grateful when the head of an investment firm asks him to look into problems caused by a trader who has recently died.
Reviewed on 22 February 2014 by Arnold Taylor
A Death in Valencia
Chief Inspector Max Camera is pulled from the murder of a local restaurateur when the owner of an abortion clinic is kidnapped.
Reviewed on 22 February 2014 by Chris Roberts
All I Did Was Shoot My Man
Private investigator Leonid McGill helped frame an innocent woman for a huge robbery at an insurance company. When he regrets his actions and decides to free her from prison, he sets in motion events which threaten her, himself and his family.
Reviewed on 22 February 2014 by John Cleal
Dark Dawn
A teenager is found kneecapped and killed in a luxury development on Belfast’s River Lagan. Acting DS John O’Neill faces a wall of silence, indifference and a hostile senior officer as he enters the world of violence, drug dealing and corruption that is post-Troubles Belfast.
Reviewed on 22 February 2014 by John Cleal
The Dead
Gang boss David Blake is back on top until the arrest of his accountant for child murder sparks a chain of events which put Blake’s empire – and life – at risk.
Reviewed on 22 February 2014 by John Cleal
Penance
When an elderly woman is shot dead by a sniper after leaving the confessional, Chicago detective John Lynch is assigned to investigate and enters a murky world of political ambition and double cross.
Reviewed on 22 February 2014 by John Cleal
The Case of the Love Commandos
Vish Puri helps the Love Commandos to find a missing untouchable boy who is in love with a high caste girl. In the process, he investigates the murder of the boy’s mother and uncovers the exploitation of illiterate villagers by an international DNA company and a tale of political corruption at the highest level.
Reviewed on 22 February 2014 by Sylvia Wilson
Just One Evil Act
One of DS Barbara Haver’s neighbours, a child, is abducted and her mother is also missing. The child’s father takes extreme measures to try to retrieve her while Barbara lets her emotions control her actions.
Reviewed on 22 February 2014 by Sylvia Maughan
