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Once a Liar
New York lawyer Peter Caine has built a successful career defending some very nasty people but finds himself as a suspect when his ex-mistress is murdered.
Reviewed on 18 January 2020 by Chris Roberts
Preservation
When in 1797 a vessel is shipwrecked on an island in what became known as Bass Strait, a small group make their way to Sydney, but the few who arrive have different tales about the journey.
Reviewed on 18 January 2020 by Chris Roberts
Maigret and the Killer
A young man with a particular interest in recording the voices of strangers is stabbed and killed in the street during an early spring downpour. The hobby initially proves to be a distraction for Maigret.
Reviewed on 18 January 2020 by Chris Roberts
Guilty Not Guilty
Bill Russell is devastated when told that his wife has been murdered, and things get worse when the police make him their main suspect. Bill is sure his brother-in-law is the culprit, but is there enough evidence to get a conviction in court?
Reviewed on 18 January 2020 by Chris Roberts
Liberation Square
Imagine that D-Day had gone the other way, with the Germans victorious, instead of the Allies. In the highly charged political climate that follows, a woman sets out to clear the name of her husband, who’s been arrested on a murder charge.
Reviewed on 18 January 2020 by Arnold Taylor
More Rivals of Sherlock Homes
Fifteen of the rivals of the great Sherlock Holmes – police officers, PIs and eccentric criminologists – who all had their day in the sun in the popular magazines around the turn of the century.
Reviewed on 18 January 2020 by John Cleal
Murder in the Mill-Race
When the warden of a children’s home is killed, local police can make no headway in an isolated and self-contained village. Scotland Yard is called in and Chief Inspector Macdonald sent to take over the case.
Reviewed on 18 January 2020 by John Cleal
The Room of the Dead
Inspector Betty Church finds wartime life in her sleepy hometown of Sackwater hard to bear until a bombing raid and the discovery of a body on the beach put her on the trail of a killer.
Reviewed on 18 January 2020 by John Cleal
Cage
In Iceland Agla’s prison sentence for financial crimes is coming to an end while her former nemesis Maria gets drawn into helping her to pull another international money fraud.
Reviewed on 18 January 2020 by Ewa Sherman
The Promise
The Promise is one that they have kept for more than 30 years, but Beth and her friends know it is about to be unburied. And they all have too much to lose.
Reviewed on 18 January 2020 by Kati Barr-Taylor
Salt Lane
DS Alexandra Cupidi is about to learn that the Kentish Fens offer more than quiet and seclusion after the tumultuous Met. They are the almost perfect hiding place for bodies.
Reviewed on 18 January 2020 by Kati Barr-Taylor
A Savage Generation
With the civilised world on the brink of collapse, a former prison seems like a good place to hole up, but appearances can be very deceptive.
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by Linda Wilson
