Headline Review
Books published by Headline Review
The Dictator's Wife
In 1993, a young London lawyer of Yanussian descent joins a team to defend the wife of the dictator of Yanussia, a fictitious Eastern European country.
Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by John Verpeleti
All My Lies Are True
Lying is in our DNA. But Verity’s lies are about to land her with a charge of attempted murder.
Reviewed on 27 November 2021 by Kati Barr-Taylor
Heat Stroke
Lily didn’t get home after the girls’ sleepover. She didn’t even get there. She’s gone, and only three people know where.
Reviewed on 21 August 2021 by Kati Barr-Taylor
Tell Me Your Secret
He may have let Pieta go last time, but the Blindfolder is back and he is getting closer.
Reviewed on 07 September 2019 by Kati Barr-Taylor
Where Dead Men Meet
Sister Agnes of St Theresa’s orphanage comes upon an intruder in the middle of the night. When she fails to supply information regarding one of the children who lived there, he kills her.
Reviewed on 28 April 2018 by Arnold Taylor
The Fatal Flame
‘Copper star’ Timothy Wilde chases down an arsonist and violence and murder follow as he and his brother follow the trail around the dangerous and corruption-filled streets of a pre-civil war New York.
Reviewed on 24 December 2016 by John Cleal
Top Secret Twenty-One
Stephanie Plum falls foul of Russian gangsters as she helps the enigmatic Ranger track down whoever is targeting him
Reviewed on 23 August 2014 by Sharon Wheeler
Theft of Life
A former West Indies slaver is found dead in the grounds of St Paul’s Cathedral. Gabriel Crowther and Harriet Westerman find themselves investigating wealthy and influential traders in human misery who will do anything to protect their trade and their profits.
Reviewed on 26 July 2014 by John Cleal
Seven for a Secret
Timothy Wilde is a copper star in the newly-formed NYPD, and is dragged into the world of the blackbirders, semi-legal slave catchers, when a beautiful black woman reports her free family has been kidnapped.
Reviewed on 05 April 2014 by John Cleal
The Paris Winter
It is 1909 and Maud Heighton has left provincial Darlington and moved to Paris in order to learn to paint at Lafond’s famous Academy. However, she finds herself short of money and almost starving and is grateful when she is given an opportunity to earn money as companion to a young, beautiful girl.
Reviewed on 05 April 2014 by Arnold Taylor
The Execution of Noa P. Singleton
A woman is on death row awaiting execution for murder is visited by a young British lawyer to assemble a final plea for clemency.
Reviewed on 25 January 2014 by Chris Roberts
Precious Thing
TV reporter Rachel Walsh is called to a press conference about a missing woman, only to discover that it her oldest friend who’s gone missing.
Reviewed on 30 November 2013 by Linda Wilson
