Not Just Evil: Murder, Hollywood, and California’s First Insanity Plea by David George Wilson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Twelve-year-old Marion Parker was kidnapped from her Los Angeles school by an unknown assailant on December 15, 1927. Her body appeared days later, delivered to her father by the killer, who fled with the ransom …
Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land My rating: 5 of 5 stars Annie’s mother is a serial killer. The only way she can make it stop is to hand her in to the police. But out of sight is not out of mind. As her mother’s trial looms, the secrets of her past won’t …
Girl in Danger by Leigh Russell My rating: 4 of 5 stars When an anonymous source promises her a scoop, Lucy can’t resist the chance to make her name. The deeply unsettling meeting with her informant indicates that there may be more at stake than she’d suspected. Returning home with questions instead of answers, Lucy …
Worth Killing For by Ed James My rating: 4 of 5 stars On a busy London street, a young woman is attacked in broad daylight and left bleeding to death on the pavement. Among the eyewitnesses are DI Simon Fenchurch and his wife. Fenchurch pursues the attacker through a warren of backstreets and eventually arrests …
Local Poet by Paul Trembling My rating: 4 of 5 stars ROB SEATON KILLED A WOMAN. Rob doesn’t know Laney Grey. But when she steps out in front of his van and dies on impact, his life will never be the same. The police declare him innocent, but how do you deal with the guilt? …
Hide and Seek by M.J. Arlidge My rating: 4 of 5 stars Prison is no place for a detective, Helen Grace was one of the country’s best police investigators. Now she’s behind bars with the killers she caught. Framed for murder she knows there is only way out: stay alive until her trial and somehow …
Streets of Darkness by A.A. Dhand My rating: 5 of 5 stars The sky over Bradford is heavy with foreboding. It always is. But this morning it has reason to be – this morning a body has been found. And it’s not just any body. Detective Harry Virdee should be at home with his wife. …
Baby Doll by Hollie Overton My rating: 5 of 5 stars You’ve been held captive in one room. You’ve been mentally and physically abused every day since you were sixteen years old. Then, one night, you realise your captor has left the door to your cell unlocked. For the first time in eight years you’re …
The Deadline by Ron Franscell My rating: 5 of 5 stars A dying convict’s last request thrusts small-town newspaperman Jefferson Morgan into a deadly maelstrom as he explores a fifty-year-old case of child murder — a wound his town still isn’t ready to scrape open. Under the heaviest deadline of his life, and amid threats …
The Taken by Alice Clark-Platts My rating: 5 of 5 stars In a Durham hotel at dawn, celebrated preacher Tristan Snow is murdered as he prays. None of the other guests – not even his daughter, his wife, or her sister – saw or heard anything. But then again, they all had a motive for …
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