My Review (5 stars out of 5) When a British war veteran is found dead in a churchyard, Homicide marks it as non-suspicious. However, DC Brook Deelman wants to find out more, if only to track down the old man’s relatives. As he begins to delve into the man’s past, he learns of another veteran…
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‘Supper with the Crippens’ by David James Smith
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen and his wife, Belle, lived in a rented house at 39 Hilldrop Crescent. Following supper with two of their friends, Crippen appears to have poisoned his wife and cut up her body, burying her under the cellar floor. Moving his mistress, Ethel le Neve,…
‘A Moveable Feast’ by Ernest Hemingway
My Review (5 stars out of 5) A Moveable Feast is Ernest Hemingway’s reflections on his early days as a writer in Paris, meeting other writers, struggling to sell his stories and often being short of money. Firstly, the paperback I bought has a different cover. It also does not contain the ‘personal foreword by…
‘A Sunny Day in Oldham’ by Joy Mutter
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Detective Sergeant Mark Jenkin has a lot on his plate. Swivelling between two families and two sons, he must keep on his toes to stay ahead of suspicion. But when an elderly woman is killed in her own back garden, Mark’s complex double life begins to spin out…
‘All That Remains’ by Patricia Cornwell
My Review (5 stars out of 5) A serial killer leaves a young couple dead in the woods, producing yet another murder where Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta cannot establish the cause of death. With the latest murder involving the daughter of a powerful woman who wants answers, Kay finds herself in a difficult position.…
‘Underrated’ by Morwenna Blackwood
My Review (4 stars out of 5) Five young guys try to improve their lot in the world, exploring love, drugs and friendship. Set in Liverpool and Devon, their lives intertwine as they experiment with cocaine. This is the first book I’ve read by this author and her third publication so far. The book takes…
‘The Poisonous Solicitor’ by Stephen Bates
My Review (5 stars out of 5) In 1922, solicitor Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong was tried and found guilty of killing his wife by poisoning her with arsenic. Hanged for her murder, the case caused a scandal not only in Hay-on-Wye where he lived but across the whole country. My first introduction to this story…
‘No Escape’ by Robert Crouch
My Review (5 stars out of 5) When Kent Fisher’s new wife Gemma takes his car and goes missing early one morning, the amateur sleuth is forced to focus on his detecting skills to work out where she is, why she left and who else might be involved. With only Gemma’s mobile phone and a…
‘Off Season’ by Jack Ketchum
My Review (5 stars out of 5) A New York book editor invites her sister and a few friends to spend a few days in the lonely cabin she’s rented near the quiet beach town of Dead River. Shortly after the friends arrive, a strange tribe of cannibals descend on the isolated house. Meanwhile, the…
‘The Fog’ by James Herbert
My Review (4 stars out of 5) A village turns into a disaster zone when huge crevasses open up in the road, causing people and cars to tumble into its depths. But oozing up from the bottom of one of the chasms is a mysterious yellow fog. As the strange haze moves around the countryside,…
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