Posted in Crime, Elmore Leonard on Feb 15th, 2012
Author: Elmore Leonard Title: Raylan Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Hardback: 263 pages ISBN: 978-0-297-86753-1 Price: £18.99 Publication Date: 16/02/2012 It’s not often that a novel can use the first name of its principal protagonist for its title, but in the case of Elmore Leonard’s US Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens normal rules don’t apply. From his [...]
Posted in Crime on Jan 21st, 2012
Author: Stuart Neville Title: Stolen Souls Publisher: Harvill Secker Trade Paperback: 312 pages ISBN: 978-1-846-55452-0 Price: £12.99 Publication Date: 26/01/2012 It’s not very often that you find a novel that grabs you by the neck and won’t let go. You know, the type of book that you settle down with, only intending to read a [...]
Posted in Carol O'Connell, Crime on Jan 14th, 2012
Author: Carol O’Connell Title: The Chalk Girl Publisher: Headline Hardback: 448 pages ISBN: 978-0-7553-8538-6 Price: £19.99 Publication Date: 17/01/2012 Carol O’Connell has never been what you would call a prolific author. It is two and a half years since her last novel – the brilliant, spellbinding Bone By Bone – was published. And it has been [...]
Posted in Crime, Karen Rose on Jan 4th, 2012
Author: Karen Rose Title: No One Left To Tell Publisher: Headline Hardback: 534 pages ISBN: 978-0-7553-7394-9 Price: £16.99 Publication Date: 05/01/2012 It wasn’t until I had read about fifty pages of Karen Rose’s latest novel, No One Left To Tell, that I was finally able to scratch the nagging mental itch that had been plaguing [...]
Posted in Crime, Neil Cross on Nov 2nd, 2011
Author: Neil Cross Title: Luther: The Calling Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperback: 360 pages ISBN: 978-0-85720-337-3 Price: £12.99 Publication Date: 04/08/2011 DCI John Luther likes to be different. Not just as a detective and character, but even as far as how he crossed from the screen to the page. Most television detectives start out [...]
Posted in Crime, John Connolly on Sep 6th, 2011
Author: John Connolly Title: The Burning Soul Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Hardback: 408 pages ISBN: 978-0-340-99353-8 Price: £17.99 Publication Date: 01/09/2011 To say that the central theme of John Connolly’s latest book – the tenth in the Charlie Parker series – concerns secrets would be something of an understatement. Truth be told, secrets are lurking [...]
Author: Mo Hayder Title: Skin Publisher: Bantam Paperback: 459 pages ISBN: 978-0-553-82050-8 Price: £6.99 Publication Date: 19/11/2009 The one thing I can always claim after reading a Mo Hayder novel is that I will come away with some rather weird and nasty piece of new knowledge. And, within the first page of Skin, I had [...]
Posted in China Miéville, Crime on Aug 18th, 2011
Author: China Miéville Title: The City & The City Publisher: Pan Macmillan Paperback: 500 pages ISBN: 978-0-330-53419-2 Price: £7.99 Publication Date: 06/05/2011 I have a confession to make at the outset of this review. Before reading The City & The City I had never finished a novel by China Miéville. However, I should clarify this statement. Before [...]
Posted in Amanda Kyle Williams, Crime on Aug 16th, 2011
Author: Amanda Kyle Williams Title: The Stranger You Seek Publisher: Headline Hardback: 336 pages ISBN: 978-0-755-38416-7 Price: £19.99 Publication Date: 04/08/2011 Meet Keye Street, the new kid on the crime block. A Chinese-American private investigator with two university degrees, she used to work as a criminal profiler for the FBI before she got fired for her [...]
Posted in Crime, Tess Gerritsen on Jul 20th, 2011
Author: Tess Gerritsen Title: The Silent Girl Publisher: Bantam Press Hardback: 331 pages ISBN: 978-0-593-06324-8 Price: £18.99 Publication Date: 21/07/2011 Thanks to Tess Gerritsen’s latest thriller, The Silent Girl, I can comprehensively say that I will not be attending a ghost tour in the near future! I’m squeamish at the best of times, so even [...]
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