Purchase Link My Review (4 stars out of 5) In her basement office within the Baker Street Building Society, Harriet (Harry) White responds to letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes. Spotting something in The Times that challenges her fictional hero to prove his worth, propels Harry on a mission to locate the mystery writer, who titles…
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‘Penshaw’ by LJ Ross
My Review (5 stars out of 5) (Audiobook) A suspicious death in a former mining village, sets Detective Chief Inspector Ryan on a complex trail of decades-old betrayal as links to the past reveal that someone wants long-held secrets to stay hidden. At Northumbria CID, rumours of a rat in the ranks make Ryan’s life…
‘Embouchure’ by Archibald Fitz
My Review (4 stars out of 5) An American artist, jazz buff and sci-fi writer lives with his Italian muse in Quebec’s Bohemian enclave of De Lorimier. When his business partner is killed by a bomb, he finds himself in the spotlight as a suspect in the investigation. But hints of French terrorism, the Mafia,…
‘End of Watch’ by Stephen King
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Now running a detective agency along with his side-kick Holly Gibney, ex-detective Bill Hodges is intrigued to learn that the letter Z has been written at the scene of the crime. Hodges discovers the evidence suggests the culprit to be Brady Hartsfield, the notorious ‘Mercedes Killer’. But with…
‘The Glass Room’ by Ann Cleeves
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…
‘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 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…
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