Review Archive
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The Boxer
Seventeen-year-old Sunny turns to amateur boxing after a vicious racial assault and finds himself pitted against a former friend in his first competition.
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by Linda Wilson
Drowned Lives
When Chris Buckley is approached by an old man who wants his help untangling an old family rift, he’s not keen, and it shows. But when the man is killed in a hit and run accident, things take a more sinister turn.
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by Linda Wilson
Whatever It Takes
When James Mercer’s latest heist doesn’t go according to plan, he’s presented with an ultimatum – pull off a seemingly impossible job or suffer the consequences.
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by Linda Wilson
Maigret's Pickpocket
Maigret’s wallet is stolen but then returned to him, with nothing missing. The detective is intrigued when a mysterious man admits to the theft.
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by Arnold Taylor
A Shadow Intelligence
MI6 agent Elliot Kane is brought home in a hurry when an operation is abruptly terminated. He seems to be under suspicion – and then he receives a message from a friend pointing him to a video of himself, a very clever fake.
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by Chris Roberts
Death Run
Private detective Jack Barclay is asked to investigate when a man falls from the top of a block of flats, and crushes and kills a woman in a car below.
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by Chris Roberts
Playboy
Detective Mario Lame is given a tip which means he is standing over a body when the military police arrive to investigate. He needs to find out what is going on before he ends up on the hook for the killing.
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by Chris Roberts
Not Playing Fair
When seven professional footballers are killed in seven days, DCI Charlie Miskin and his team face a seemingly unsolvable problem.
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by John Cleal
Death in a Desert Land
Agatha Christie is asked by British intelligence to investigate doubts surrounding the death of explorer Gertrude Bell, and plunges into a snake pit of passions, deception and poisonous plots in the blistering heat of the Iraqi desert.
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by John Cleal
The Bear Pit
Captain Damian Seeker, Cromwell’s counter-intelligence ‘enforcer’ faces another assassination plot against the Lord Protector and must also solve the riddle of a murder by bear!
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by John Cleal
The Darker Arts
Paranormal investigators Inspectors Frey and McGray face a race to save McGray’s trusted clairvoyant Madame Katerina when she is condemned to hang after being the only survivor of a séance involving three of Edinburgh’s wealthiest families.
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by John Cleal
Ghosts of the Past
What links the cold-blooded execution of a former Australian soldier in 1906 to a modern hunt for a fortune in buried gold? Sydney journalist Nick Eatwell digs deep into his family’s past – and finds his own life is in danger.
Reviewed on 21 December 2019 by John Cleal
