Posted in Crime, Karin Slaughter on Jul 6th, 2011
Author: Karin Slaughter Title: Fallen Publisher: Century Hardback: 387 pages ISBN: 978-1-8460-5794-6 Price: £18.99 Publication Date: 07/07/2011 At the outset of this review I must make a confession. I love Karin Slaughter’s novels, so much so that when I received my copy of her new thriller, Fallen, in the post a couple of weeks ago, [...]
Posted in Crime, Duane Swierczynski on Jul 3rd, 2011
Author: Duane Swierczynski Title: Fun & Games Publisher: Mulholland Books Paperback Original: 283 pages ISBN: 978-1-444-70756-4 Price: £6.99 Publication Date: 23/06/2011 After reading Fun & Games I want to be a house sitter! For this is the job of its central protagonist, ex-cop Charlie Hardie. He gets paid – yes, paid – to fly around the [...]
Posted in Crime, Will Carver on Jun 10th, 2011
Author: Will Carver Title: Girl 4 Publisher: Arrow Paperback Original: 345 pages ISBN: 978-0-09955-103-4 Price: £6.99 Publication Date: 12/05/2011 There’s a new American female detective on the block, and her name is January David. Or so I assumed when I first start reading the press release for Will Carver’s debut novel, Girl 4. But I [...]
Posted in Crime, Peter James on May 25th, 2011
Author: Peter James Title: Dead Man’s Grip Publisher: Pan Macmillan Hardback: 402 pages ISBN: 978-0-230-74725-8 Price: £18.99 Publication Date: 26/05/2011 Eight pages in to Peter James’s latest Roy Grace novel I found myself forced to stop. Had I really just read what I thought I had? I re-read it and realised that I had not [...]
Posted in Crime, Eoin Colfer on May 2nd, 2011
Author: Eoin Colfer Title: Plugged Publisher: Headline Hardback: 277 pages ISBN: 978-0-7553-7998-9 Price: £12.99 Publication Date: 12/05/2011 Apparently, the fact that I loved Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl books when I was a teenager means that I need to grow up. At least, according to the shoutline on his debut crime novel, Plugged, I do. Not [...]
Posted in Crime, Helen Black on Apr 26th, 2011
Author: Helen Black Title: Blood Rush Publisher: Robinson Paperback Original: 311 pages ISBN: 978-1-84901-473-1 Price: £6.99 Publication Date: 21/04/2011 It’s rare for a crime novel to make me think about the society that I live in, rather than be a vehicle for escapism – but that is exactly what Helen Black’s fourth novel, Blood Rush, [...]
Posted in Crime, Marcia Clark on Apr 21st, 2011
Author: Marcia Clark Title: Guilt By Association Publisher: Mulholland Books Hardback: 356 pages ISBN: 978-1-444-70748-9 Price: £12.99 Publication Date: 12/05/2011 It seems that there are some lawyer stereotypes that even a former Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney can’t avoid – namely that lawyers can’t resist chasing an ambulance. Actually, in Marcia Clark’s debut crime novel, [...]
Posted in Crime, Donna Leon on Apr 16th, 2011
Author: Donna Leon Title: Drawing Conclusions Publisher: William Heinemann Hardback: 260 pages ISBN: 978-0-4340-2143-7 Price: £16.99 Publication Date: 07/04/2011 Does anyone drink water in a Donna Leon novel [other than as a last resort]? It was a question that assailed me as I read through her latest – twentieth – Commissario Brunetti novel, Drawing Conclusions. [...]
Posted in Crime, Thomas Harris on Apr 5th, 2011
Author: Thomas Harris Title: The Silence of the Lambs Publisher: Arrow Paperback: 421 pages ISBN: 978-0-09-953292-7 Price: £7.99 Publication Date: 07/05/2009 One of the many things that makes The Silence of the Lambs such an incredible crime thriller is the fact that it is a serial killer novel in which the serial killer story arc [...]
Posted in Crime, Kate Atkinson on Mar 11th, 2011
Author: Kate Atkinson Title: Started Early, Took My Dog Publisher: Black Swan Paperback: 496 pages ISBN: 978-0-552-77246-4 Price: £7.99 Publication Date: 17/02/2011 Kate Atkinson’s latest novel, the fourth to feature the laconic and rather world weary private investigator Jackson Brodie, has a brilliant opening – in a moment of madness, Tracy Waterhouse [an ex-police officer turned head [...]
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