Review Archive
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The Scent of Death
In 1778, New York is under siege by the armies of George Washington. Edward Savill has been sent by the English government’s American Department to resolve property issues among loyalists. He stumbles onto a murder, which sparks a trail of deceipt, corruption and lies.
Reviewed on 16 November 2013 by John Cleal
Sycamore Row
When a reclusive multi-millionaire businessman with terminal cancer hangs himself, he leaves a hand-written will cutting out his family and leaving the bulk of his money to his black housekeeper. Jake Brigance is appointed to represent his estate, provoking a controversial trial and forcing Ford County to face its unsavoury past.
Reviewed on 16 November 2013 by John Cleal
The Silent Wife
Todd and Jodi have been together for more than twenty years. He is a small, but successful, property developer, she’s a counselling psychiatrist. But life for the long-time lovers is souring. How far is either of them prepare to go?
Reviewed on 16 November 2013 by John Cleal
Harry's Game
A British cabinet minister is murdered in a London street by an IRA assassin. The Prime Minister insists that an agent be put in place to find the man responsible.
Reviewed on 16 November 2013 by Arnold Taylor
Deeply Odd
Odd Thomas chases a pantechnicon to a Satanist cult to try to save a group of children. On the way he meets a formidable old woman whose contacts help Odd in his quest.
Reviewed on 16 November 2013 by Sylvia Wilson
Devoured
London 1856. The body of Lady Bessingham, a supporter of exploration and science, is discovered in her home. Inspector Adams, with the help of Professor Hatton and his morgue assistant Albert Roumande, uncover a grotesque world lying just beneath the veneer of civilised society.
Reviewed on 16 November 2013 by Madeleine Marsh
White Death
FBI agent Franco Patrese is on the trail of a serial killer who has a fixation with tarot cards and Ivy League colleges.
Reviewed on 16 November 2013 by Sharon Wheeler
Dead Man's Time
New York gangs of the 1920s meet 2012 Brighton as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates an attack on an elderly woman
Reviewed on 01 November 2013 by Sharon Wheeler
Stop Dead
DI Geraldine Steel investigates when a businessman is brutally killed and his wife and her young lover are automatically suspects, but then another murder takes place by the same method.
Reviewed on 01 November 2013 by Linda Wilson
The Stranger You Know
A serial killer is at work, and there are echoes of a cold case from 20 years ago. Maeve Kerrigan is shocked when suspicion falls on her obnoxious colleague DI Josh Derwent.
Reviewed on 01 November 2013 by Linda Wilson
Little Green
Easy Rawlins, a black PI in 1967 LA, emerges from a coma to find his friend Mouse seeking help to save a young member of their community.
Reviewed on 01 November 2013 by Chris Roberts
Yours Until Death
Norwegian PI Varg Veum retrieves a young boy's bike from a gang of delinquents - and finds himself embroiled in violence and murder
Reviewed on 01 November 2013 by Sharon Wheeler
