Review Archive
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Cross and Burn
It looks like it's all over for Carol Jordan and Tony Hill – until a serial killer with a taste for blonde women strikes close to home
Reviewed on 11 January 2014 by Sharon Wheeler
The Road to Hell
A body of a half-naked woman is discovered in a park in Edinburgh. It looks like murder, and when a second body is found, also unclothed, DS Alice Rice wonders if the two cases are connected.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by Linda Wilson
The Doll's House
A crime scene has been posed to look like the interior of a doll’s house, complete with a badly mutilated victim. DI Phil Brennan has to struggle with an unfamiliar team and an increasingly distant wife, as well as a series of seemingly unrelated murders.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by Linda Wilson
The Swedish Girl
When a student is brutally murdered in a shared house, her flatmates come under suspicion and at first it looks like this will be an open and shut case, but policeman’s daughter, Kirsty Wilson, isn’t so sure.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by Linda Wilson
Hunting Shadows
DI Ellen Kelly returns to work after compassionate leave and finds herself confronted by a case involving the abduction of a little girl. Realising that she is in a race against time, she throws herself into the investigation and pursues it single-mindedly.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by Arnold Taylor
The Last Alibi
Lawyer Jason Kolarich has a visit from a client who expects to be arrested for murder; six months later he stands accused himself.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by Chris Roberts
Identical
A girl is murdered; her boyfriend confesses to the crime and spends twenty-five years in jail, but questions remain unanswered.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by Chris Roberts
The Governor's Wife
Bode Bonner, Governor of Texas, has become a self-satisfied and cynical politician. His wife has retained her caring side and takes an opportunity to get involved in a medical enterprise on the Mexican border. The two lifestyles inevitably collide with devastating consequences.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by Sylvia Maughan
Rage Against the Dying
Retired FBI agent Brigid Quinn is trying to build a life apart from the human trafficking and sex predators she acted as bait for in her undercover career, but she is dragged back into this sordid and brutal world when a man confesses a notorious string of sex killings – including the murder of a young agent she had trained.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by John Cleal
The Cold Nowhere
When teenage streetwalker Cat arrives at Lieutenant Jonathan Stride’s home drenched, covered in blood and begging protection from an unknown killer, the detective is plunged back in time to the killing of her mother and his discovery of a terrified six-year-old child.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by John Cleal
Guilt
Psychologist Alex Delaware is called in to investigate the skeletons of two babies and the murder of a woman in a quiet suburb. The investigation takes him to the highest echelons of celebrity and uncovers unthinkable depravity.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by Sylvia Wilson
Odd Apocalypse
Odd Thomas has found refuge in a crumbling mansion in Santa Barbara, along with his closest friends both living and dead. But the house is a place of terrible secrets, and there is a strange and frightening presence waiting.
Reviewed on 28 December 2013 by Madeleine Marsh
