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 …
The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz My rating: 3 of 5 stars “I very much need to be dead.” These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for—but took his own life. In the aftermath, his widow, Jane Hawk, does what all her grief, fear, and fury demand: …
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter My rating: 5 of 5 stars Every now and again a book comes along that you don’t want to put down, you don’t want it to end and you wish you could write as well as Ms Slaughter!. This is such a book. An engrossing read, with well defined …
The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker My rating: 5 of 5 stars In many ways this is an old-fashioned serial killer story, with a huge battle of good and evil. Grizzly packages are sent to the detectives and the 4KM (the fourth Monkey Killer) taunts them at every turn. A great read, which keeps you …
Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica My rating: 4 of 5 stars She always trusted her husband. Until he died. Clara Solberg’s world shatters when her husband and four-year-old daughter are in a car crash, killing Nick while Maisie is remarkably unharmed. But when Maisie starts having nightmares, Clara becomes obsessed that Nick’s death was …
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty My rating: 5 of 5 stars Jane hasn’t lived anywhere for longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. Now the idyllic coastal town of Pirriwee has pulled her to its shores and Jane feels …
A Dark So Deadly by Stuart MacBride My rating: 5 of 5 stars Callum uncovers links between his ancient corpse and three missing young men. O Division’s Major Investigation Teams already have more cases than they can cope with, so, against everyone’s better judgement, the Misfit Mob are just going to have to manage this …
Give Me the Child by Mel McGrath My rating: 5 of 5 stars I always enjoy psychological books, where nothing is as it seems at the beginning and this didn’t disappoint. As Cat delves deeper into her husband’s life things are much worse than they appeared initially, the catalyst of their problems being the arrival …
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