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…
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‘Blue Lightning’ by Ann Cleeves
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Visiting his family on Fair Isle, Jimmy Perez and his girlfriend Fran are treated to a party to celebrate their engagement, but the celebrations don’t last long. One of the field centre workers is found with a knife in her back and bird feathers threaded into her hair.…
‘A Rising Man’ by Abir Mukherjee
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Calcutta, 1919. After the horrors of war and the death of his wife, Captain Sam Wyndham is keen to make a new start. Joining Calcutta’s police force seems like the perfect solution, as it offers a location and position that couldn’t be more different from his recent experiences.…
‘Dead Tomorrow’ by Peter James
My Review (5 stars out of 5) A body dredged up from the seabed off the Sussex coast sparks a murder investigation when police discover the corpse is missing several vital organs. When more bodies turn up, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace starts the hunt for a gang of child traffickers, crooked surgeons and a missing…
‘Missing Presumed Dead’ by Mark Tedeschi
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Australians Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan had a lot in common – they both came from middle class, happy families and were well off financially. Unfortunately for them, they also both knew Bruce Burrell. When Dorothy disappeared in 1995 after leaving her home to visit a friend, police…
‘Burning Ridge’ by Margaret Mizushima
My Review (4 stars out of 5) (Audiobook) Police officer Mattie Cobb and her police-dog partner, Robo, discover a burned body on an isolated ridge in Colorado. But as the investigation into the death gets underway, Mattie finds she has familial links to the dead man, throwing her whole life into a tailspin. When three…
‘The Fall’ by Rachael Blok
My Review (3 stars out of 5) A man is found dead having apparently fallen from the tower above St Albans Cathedral. DCI Maarten Jansen is faced with the task of working out if the man jumped or was pushed. However, a witness – Willow – sets the investigation going in a different direction, linking…
‘The Nineteen’ by Jake Needham
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Following a meeting of Osama bin Laden’s lieutenants in Malaysia in 2000, some of the Al-Qaeda commanders went back to Afghanistan, but others went to Bangkok. In ‘The Nineteen’, Jake Needham conjures up a scenario that could explain what those men were up to. Jack Shepherd, along with…
‘Body of Evidence’ by Patricia Cornwell
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Following the death of a writer, Kay Scarpetta is drawn into the search for her murderer. With a valuable manuscript missing and a mystery surrounding why the dead woman appears to have let the killer into her house, Scarpetta discovers someone from her own past may be involved…
‘Cragside’ by LJ Ross
My Review (5 stars out of 5) In need of somewhere to live, DCI Ryan and his partner Anna have moved to temporary accommodation within the grounds of Cragside, a country mansion near Rothbury, Northumberland. Invited to a Victorian murder-mystery event, Ryan’s detective skills are called upon when the lights go out at the house…
Colin Garrow 