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Eight Detectives
A book published privately more than 30 years ago could contain clues to a real murder in its selection of short stories. An ambitious editor confronts its author on his remote Mediterranean hideaway.
Reviewed on 12 November 2022 by John Cleal
The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden
Private detective Laetitia Rodd is asked by a friend to help the wife of an important London theatre director. She feels unable to decline but very soon becomes involved in something much more sinister.
Reviewed on 12 November 2022 by Sylvia Maughan
The Bone Code
A 15-year-old unsolved mystery returns to haunt forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan when two mutilated bodies are washed ashore in a storm, crammed into a medical waste container, fingers and teeth removed to hide their identities.
Reviewed on 30 September 2022 by Linda Wilson
Good Cop, Bad Cop
Chris Sketty. Hero cop or cold-blooded murderer? Telling his own story to the husband of a woman killed in a terrorist atrocity, Sketty does his best to paint himself as the former, but Dr Ralph Teller thinks Sketty is holding back the truth.
Reviewed on 30 September 2022 by Linda Wilson
Survive the Night
When Charlie Jordan decides she can’t stand being in college any longer and must go home, she accepts a lift from a stranger. But Charlie soon starts to realise that she might have made a very dangerous mistake …
Reviewed on 30 September 2022 by Linda Wilson
Target Zero
Close personal protection specialist Mickey Bale is tasked by MI5 with getting close to a Russian oligarch suspected of involvement in a deadly terror plot.
Reviewed on 30 September 2022 by Linda Wilson
Double Or Nothing
James Bond is missing, presumed dead or in enemy hands, so it falls to a new generation of Double O operatives to save the world.
Reviewed on 30 September 2022 by Linda Wilson
The Basel Killings
Making his way home on a foggy autumn night, Inspector Hunkeler finds a man he knows, dead on a bench. Popular theory attributes the crime to Albanians, but Hunkeller has other ideas.
Reviewed on 30 September 2022 by Chris Roberts
1979
Allie Burns has recently joined the Glasgow Daily Clarion as a reporter, and in a male-dominated 1979 newsroom needs a scoop to be taken seriously.
Reviewed on 30 September 2022 by Chris Roberts
Edith and Kim
Charlotte Philby gives a fictional dressing to the real lives of her grandfather Kim Philby, and Edith Tudor-Hart, who recruited him to spy for Russia.
Reviewed on 30 September 2022 by Chris Roberts
Cry Wolf
Two poisoned wolves lead police to a dead body with a link to a drug deal where someone got greedy, and someone is looking for payback.
Reviewed on 30 September 2022 by Chris Roberts
The Whistleblower
With a general election looming, a journalist suspects the death of his sister is connected to a web of corruption linking business and government.
Reviewed on 30 September 2022 by Chris Roberts
