Review Archive
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Killing Rock
Gibraltar-based detective Tamara Sullivan joins forces with a colleague across the border to solve murders from the past and present.
Reviewed on 22 May 2021 by Chris Roberts
Knife Edge
Seven journalists are murdered on a single day in London. They all worked for the same news agency. The question in everyone’s mind is who will be targeted next. It’s not a happy thought for Famie Madden, or her colleagues, but that doesn’t stop them when a possible lead turns up.
Reviewed on 22 May 2021 by Linda Wilson
Hostage to Fortune
When the widow Worcester’s undersheriff Hugh Bradecote is to wed is kidnapped along with a group of Benedictine monks, Bradecote must fight his fears for their safety to rescue them from a psychopath who kills for pleasure.
Reviewed on 24 April 2021 by John Cleal
A Private Cathedral
Dave Robicheaux and his private investigator friend Clete Purcel become involved in Louisiana’s longest running gang feud – and must also face a supernatural threat from a centuries-old killer.
Reviewed on 24 April 2021 by John Cleal
A Song of Isolation
Rising young film star Amelia Hart is the toast of the media. She gives up her career for her accountant boyfriend. Then he is accused of child sexual abuse.
Reviewed on 24 April 2021 by John Cleal
Bent
Key episodes in the life of Harold ‘Tanky’ Challenor, in Italy as an SAS commando in WWII, and as a notorious Detective Sergeant in 1960s Soho.
Reviewed on 24 April 2021 by Chris Roberts
Liar, Liar
When a child is injured falling from a block of flats, DS Grace Allendale has a strong feeling that it wasn’t, as the parents claim, an accident. But proving who is lying and why isn’t an easy task.
Reviewed on 24 April 2021 by Linda Wilson
Execution
Renegade monk, heretic and philosopher Giordano Bruno goes under cover to expose a plot to assassinate Elizabeth I.
Reviewed on 24 April 2021 by John Cleal
Lightseekers
Three students are seized by a mob, beaten and then burned to death with petrol-filled tyres around their necks. Philip Taiwo is asked to explain this mob violence.
Reviewed on 24 April 2021 by Chris Roberts
Nighthawking
The discovery of a young woman’s body in a shallow grave leads DS Adam Tyler into the murky world of the nighthawks – metal detectorists who aren’t too fussy about whether they have permission for their investigations.
Reviewed on 24 April 2021 by Linda Wilson
Play the Red Queen
In 1963 Saigon, army investigator Ellsworth Miser is tasked with closing down a female Viet Cong assassin who has already killed three US army officers.
Reviewed on 24 April 2021 by Chris Roberts
Stone Cold Trouble
Zaq Khan is trying to keep out of trouble when his brother Tariq is badly beaten. Whether this was a problem of Tariq’s own making, or a message from someone in Zaq’s past, Zaq needs to take them down.
Reviewed on 24 April 2021 by Chris Roberts
