My Review (5 stars out of 5) DI Vera Stanhope’s nearest neighbours give her something to think about when one of them is suspected of murder. Having abandoned her husband to run off to a writing retreat, hippyish Joanna is found standing over a dead body with a knife in her hand. The fact of…
Category: Crime
‘Making Contact and Other Short Stories’ by Joy Mutter
My Review (5 stars out of 5) This is Joy Mutter’s third collection of short stories and once again it demonstrates her ability to mix light-hearted topics with more sinister themes. Having read most of her books, I’m more than familiar with her writing style and this one is stamped with all her usual hallmarks.…
‘The Secret Sauce’ by MJ Porter
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Secret Sauce, via Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources Blurb Birmingham, England, November 1944. Chief Inspector Mason of Erdington Police Station is summoned to a suspicious death at the BB Sauce factory in Aston on a wet Monday morning in late November 1944. Greeted by his…
‘Broken Bones’ by John Carson
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Broken Bones, via Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources Blurb Some bodies just won’t stay buried… After putting a stop to one of Edinburgh’s most notorious serial killers 3 years ago, DCI Liam Brodie is known as a man who can handle – and solve – the…
‘Habeas Corpus’ by Jake Needham
My Review (5 stars out of 5) While staying in a borrowed house on Malibu’s Carbon Beach, burned-out Virginia divorce lawyer Charlie Trust is all set to spend the next few months drinking beer and watching the sunset. Then a plea for help from a neighbour puts him in a difficult position. TV actor Martin…
‘The Great Dick – And the Dysfunctional Demon’ by Barry Maher
My Review (4 stars out of 5) Failed songwriter Steve Witowski needs somewhere to hide. On the run from the police, he stumbles upon a woman being attacked and soon finds himself hailed as a hero. The victim, Victoria, invites him to stay with her in a haunted church where Steve becomes embroiled in a…
‘The Great Train Robbery’ by Nick Russell-Pavier and Stewart Richards
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Shortly after 3am on the 8th of August 1963 near Cheddington in Buckinghamshire, a gang of villains stole £2.6 million from the Glasgow to London mail train in a daring robbery. The names of some members of the gang have become synonymous with the legend that has grown…
‘A Litter of Bones’ by JD Kirk
My Review (5 stars out of 5) The memory of catching child-killer ‘Mister Whisper’ comes back to haunt DCI Jack Logan when another child goes missing. But with the original perpetrator locked up years earlier, this must be a copycat. Trouble is, some of the details relating to the case are scarily familiar and Logan…
‘The Secret Sauce’ by MJ Porter
My Review (5 stars out of 5) A suspicious death at the BB Sauce factory prompts Chief Inspector Mason to start an investigation. Along with his female sergeant, O’Rourke, Mason must work out what caused the death of factory worker Harry Armstrong. Found in a vat of the secret BB sauce, did the man commit…
‘The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place’ by Kate Summerscale
My Review (5 stars out of 5) (Audiobook) When the bodies of three young women are discovered by a tenant in the walls of 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, the police start an investigation and soon focus their attention on one of the former tenants, John Reginald Halliday Christie. But the investigation also sheds new…
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