Let the Dead Speak by Jane Casey My rating: 4 of 5 stars Eighteen-year-old Chloe Emery returns to her West London home one day to find the house covered in blood and Kate, her mother, gone. All the signs point to murder. Maeve Kerrigan is determined to prove she’s up to her new role as …
The Betrayals by Fiona Neill My rating: 4 of 5 stars None of them would forget that week on the wild Norfolk coast. Best friends Rosie and Lisa’s families had always been inseparable. But that summer, Lisa had an affair with Rosie’s husband Nick. And now, after years of silence, she sends Rosie a letter …
Blue Monday by Nicci French My rating: 5 of 5 stars Blue Monday is the thrilling first novel in Nicci French’s top-ten bestselling killer new series introducing psychotherapist Frieda Klein *** Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed across newspaper front pages. His parents and the police are desperate. Can anyone help …
Anything You Do Say by Gillian McAllister My rating: 5 of 5 stars It’s the end of the night. You’re walking home on your own. Then you hear the sound every woman dreads. Footsteps. Behind you. Coming fast. You’re sure it’s him – the man from the bar who wouldn’t leave you alone.You make a …
Good Friday by Lynda La Plante My rating: 5 of 5 stars Every legend has a beginning . . . During 1974 and 1975 the IRA subjected London to a terrifying bombing campaign. In one day alone, they planted seven bombs at locations across central London. Some were defused – some were not. Jane Tennison …
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