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January 29, 2017
Reblog: The Day That Never Comes by Caimh McDonnell – Reviewed by Cleopatra Loves Books
Crime Fiction
3*s
This is the second in the Dublin Trilogy written by stand-up comedian Caimh McDonnell and carries on his unique brand of crime fiction and humour from A Man With One of Those Faces onto the next part of Paul, Brigit and Bunny’s journey to see what happens after they form a private detective agency together.
The story doesn’t begin well though as Bunny is missing, Brigit and Paul have had a massive falling out and aren’t speaking and it looks as if the...
Reblog: Eyes Like Mine by Sheena Kamal – Reviewed by Crime Pieces
I was sentEyes Like Mine on Friday morning and was struck by its beautiful cover. By Friday night, I’d finished it. Regular readers of the blog will know how much I love translated crime fiction but I’m also a fan of the American PI genre. I read Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller and Sara Paretsky in my late teensand I absolutely loved them.Eyes Like Mine is isn’t an American PI book. It’s written by a Canadian debut novelist, Sheena Kamal, and is set in and around Vancouver. Neither is...
January 26, 2017
Reblog: Stasi Wolf by David Young – Reviewed by #northern #crime
Stasi Wolf is published by Bonnier Zaffre on 9 February 2017 and is available to buy here
How do you solve a murder when you can’t ask any questions?
The gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of Stasi Child.
East Germany, 1975.
Karin Müller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent south to Halle-Neustadt, where a pair of infant twins have gone missing. But Müller soon finds her problems have followed her. Halle-Neustadt is a new...
Reblog: Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner – Reviewed by Clues & Reviews
Sharlah’s older brother beat their drunken father to death in order to save their lives; eight years later, she has finally moved on and is settling into her new life about to adopted by retired FBI profiler parents, Pierce Quincy and Rainie Conner. Her life is thrown upside down when a double murder at a gas station calls Quincy and Rainie back to action and the perpetrator seems to be Sharlah’s brother. Struggling with this meaning and whether she is in danger, Sharlah struggles as old de...
January 24, 2017
Which One Was Your Favourite This Week?
Hi all,
After packing away all my old notes and draft copies of my previous novel, my desk space is finally clear and uncluttered, meaning my head is too. I am finally gettingstuck into my new novel (yet untitled). I am beyond excited about this one, as it is a story line I have wanted to tackle for a while – and I think MacReady is ready to deal with it, despite his increasingly complicated life hitting another huge wall.
So, on to some othernovels that have been attracting my attention over...
Reblog: The Day That Never Comes by Caimh McDonnell – Reviewed by Portobello Book Blog
I read Caimh McDonnell’s hilarious debut A Man with One of Those Faces last year and loved it. You can read my review of that here. His follow-up, The Day That Never Comes, is just as brilliantly funny while still being a cracking crime novel.
The novel features three of the protagonists from the first novel: the rather hapless Paul Mulchrone, nurse Brigit Conroy and Bunny McGarry. Following their escapades solving the Rapunzel case, they have decided to set up in busin...
Reblog: Sister, Sister by Sue Fortin – Reviewed by Novel Gossip
Goodreads|Amazon|Author Website
Release date: January 6, 2017
Publisher: Harper Impulse
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Blurb:
From the bestselling author of The Girl Who Lied
Alice: Beautiful, kind, manipulative, liar.
Clare: Intelligent, loyal, paranoid, jealous.
Clare thinks Alice is a manipulative liar who is trying to steal her life.
Alice thinks Claire is jealous of her long-lost return and place in their family.
One of them is telling the truth. The other is a maniac.
Tw...
January 23, 2017
Reblog: Blink by K L Slater – Reviewed by THE BOOK REVIEW CAFÉ
What if the person you love most in the world was in terrible danger … because of you?
Three years ago, Toni’s five-year-old daughter Evie disappeared after leaving school. The police have never been able to find her. There were no witnesses, no CCTV, no trace.
But Toni believes her daughter is alive. And as she begins to silently piece together her memories, the full story of the past begins to reveal itself, and a devastating truth.
Toni’s mind is tra...
Reblog: The Breakdown by B A Paris – Reviewed by StefLoz Book Reviews
If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust?
Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside―the woman who was killed. She’s been trying to put the crime out of her mind; what could she have done, really? It’s a dangerous road to be on in the middle of a storm. Her husband would be furious if he knew she’d broken her promise not to take that shor...
January 22, 2017
Reblog: Ragdoll by Daniel Cole – Reviewed by #northern #crime
Ragdoll is published by Trapeze on 23 February 2017 and is available to buy here
A body is discovered with the dismembered parts of six victims stitched together, nicknamed by the press as the ‘Ragdoll’. Assigned to the shocking case are Detective William ‘Wolf’ Fawkes, recently reinstated to the London Met, and his former partner Detective Emily Baxter.
The ‘Ragdoll Killer’ taunts the police by releasing a list of names to the media, and the dates on which he intends to mu...
