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December 31, 2016
Reblog: Sinful Deception: by M A Comley & Linda S Prather – Reviewed by BYTHELETTERBOOKREVIEWS
Book Description:
“At the end of the day, Foxy, we’re not all that different, really. I’m going to enjoy working with you.”
Detective Alex Fox now had positive proof that The Escape Artist was not only in New York, but monitoring her every move. As a member of the newly formed Special Investigations unit of the NYPD, she’s finally in a position to find him, put an end to his villainous crimes and avenge her sister’s brutal murder.
When the mutilated bodies of three te...
December 30, 2016
Reblog: Duplicity by Sibel Hodge – Reviewed by Novel Gossip
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Release date: December 27, 2016
Publisher: Thomas and Mercer
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Blurb:
There are three sides to every story: Yours. Mine. And the truth…
Max and Alissa have a fairy tale life—newlywed, madly in love and enviously rich. Then Max is brutally stabbed to death at their home and Alissa, miraculously, escapes with her life. But why was she spared?
The hunt for the killer begins, uncovering a number of leads—was Max’s incredib...
Reblog: DNA Profiling Solves the Murder: 5 Cold Cases Resolved in 2016 – Via Author Jennifer Chase
Photo courtesy of tuuv.tk.
The accuracy of DNA profiling is developing at a rapid pace. And, as a result, the landscape of modern law enforcement is evolving. The accurate results of criminal DNA analysis not only assist in putting criminals behind bars, but it also helps in exonerating those individuals who have been wrongly convicted.
As the end of 2016 is now upon us, here is a roundup of five horrific cold cases that were thankfully solved this year as a result of...
Reblog: Witness by Caroline Mitchell – Reviewed by The Quiet Knitter
I am delighted to welcome you to my stop and round off the Blog Tour for #Witness by the incredibly talented Caroline Mitchell. Witness is actually Caroline’s first psychological thriller and it’s absolute corker, check out my review below and see what you think.
Reviewed: 2 November 2016 5 out of 5 stars Copy supplied by Thomas & Mercer and Author in exchange for an honest review
Description:
To Rebecca it was a brave decision that led to her...
December 29, 2016
Reblog: The Mountain in my Shoe by Louise Beech – Reviewed by The Suspense is Thrilling Me
Book Title: The Mountain in My Shoe
Author: Louise Beech
Series: None
Genres: Psychological, Mystery, Contemporary, Fiction
Goodreads
Date Read: 12/26/16
Pub Date: 07/23/16
5 STARS
A missing boy. A missing book. A missing husband. A woman who must find them all to find herself. On the night Bernadette finally has the courage to tell her domineering husband that she’s leaving, he doesn’t come home. Neither does Conor, the little boy she’s befriended for the past five years. Also missing is his l...
December 28, 2016
Reblog: Her Husband’s Lover by Julia Crouch – Reviewed by The Book Review Café
After the horrors of the past, Louisa Williams is desperate to make a clean start.
Her husband Sam is dead. Her children, too, are gone, victims of the car accident in which he died.
Sam said that she would never get away from him. That he would hound her to death if she tried to leave. Louisa never thought that he would want to harm their children though.
But then she never thought that he would betray her with a woman like Sophie.
And now Sophie is de...
Reblog: A Man With One of Those Faces by Caimh McDonnell – Reviewed by damppebbles
“Thrilling shouldn’t be this funny, funny shouldn’t be this thrilling.
The first time somebody tried to kill him was an accident.
The second time was deliberate.
Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history . . .
. . . or else they’ll be history.”
Back in September 2016 when...
Reblog: Where Roses Never Die by Gunnar Staalesen – Reviewed by mychestnutreadingtree
September 1977. Mette Misvær, a three-year-old girl disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her tiny, close middle-class community in the tranquil suburb of Nordas is devastated, but their enquiries and the police produce nothing. Curtains twitch, suspicions are raised, but Mette is never found. Almost 25 years later, as the expiry date for the statute of limitations draws near, Mette’s mother approaches PI Varg Veum, in a last, desp...
December 27, 2016
Which One Was Your Favourite This Week?
Merry Christmas, everyone!
So, I’m officially stuffed beyond belief and nursing a hangover from hell – it must be that time between Christmas and New Year where calories and units don’t count (or is it that I simply lose count? I can’t remember which).
But, withthe final edits for my next novel, Splinter, landing on my lap two days before Christmas, I am ready to settle back into MacReady’s world and help sort out the whole heap of carnage that he has gotten himself involved in this time. But...
Reblog: Ragdoll by Jackie Law – Reviewed by neverimitate
Ragdoll, by Daniel Cole, is a fast paced, tightly written crime thriller set in London. It introduces the reader to DS William Oliver Layton-Fawkes, nicknamed Wolf, whose temperament and determination to achieve justice has landed him in serious trouble in the past. Four years ago he was commited to a psychiatric institution following his attack on a man he had been pursuing for the so called Cremation Killings. Recently permitted to return to duty, he has now been assigned to...
