What Remains of Me by A L Gaylin My rating: 4 of 5 stars June 1980: 17-year-old Kelly Lund is jailed for killing Hollywood film director, John McFadden Thirty years later, Kelly is a free woman. Yet speculation still swirls over what really happened that night. And when her father-in law, and close friend of …
The Devil’s Work by Mark Edwards My rating: 4 of 5 stars It was the job she had dreamed of since childhood. But on her very first day, when an unnerving encounter drags up memories Sophie Greenwood would rather forget, she wonders if she has made a mistake. A fatal mistake. What is her ambitious …
Cold Kill: Monkeewrench Book 7 by P.J. Tracy My rating: 5 of 5 stars On a cold winter’s night in Minneapolis, two friends are brutally murdered on opposite sides of the city. It’s clear to homicide detectives Gino and Magozzi that the men were targets – but why? As Gino and Magozzi begin to uncover …
Watching Edie by Camilla Way My rating: 5 of 5 stars Edie is the friend that Heather has always craved. But one night, it goes terrifyingly wrong. And what started as an innocent friendship ends in two lives being destroyed. Sixteen years later, Edie is still rebuilding her life. But Heather isn’t ready to let …
Last to Die by Arlene Hunt My rating: 4 of 5 stars When Jessie Conway survives a horrific mass high school shooting, in the aftermath she finds herself thrust into the media spotlight, drawing all kinds of attention. But some of it is the wrong kind. A sadistic serial killer, has been watching her every …
The Girls Next Door by Mel Sherratt My rating: 4 of 5 stars Six months after the stabbing of fifteen-year-old Deanna Miller, someone is coming after the teenagers of Stockleigh, as a spate of vicious assaults rocks this small community. Revenge for Deanna? Or something more? Detective Eden Berrisford is locked into a race against …
The Good Sisters by Helen Phifer My rating: 2 of 5 stars 1933, Mother Superior Agnes offers sanctuary to a desperate young woman fleeing for her life. Only to wake in the morning to discover a terrible fate has befallen one of the Sisters. Over 80 years later, Kate Parker, divorced, alcoholic, and broke, moves …
Somewhere Inside of Happy by Anna McPartlin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Maisie Bean is a fighter. A survivor. Seventeen years ago, she went on a first date that went so badly it was enough to put the girl off chips. The marriage that followed was hell but it gave her two children: funny, …
Dark Water by Robert Bryndza My rating: 5 of 5 stars When Detective Erika Foster receives a tip-off that key evidence for a major narcotics case was stashed in a disused quarry on the outskirts of London, she orders for it to be searched. From the thick sludge the drugs are recovered, but so is …
The Killing Game: A Tense, Gripping Thriller You Don’t Want to Miss by J S Carol My rating: 4 of 5 stars Imagine you are having lunch at an exclusive restaurant, filled with Hollywood’s hottest stars. And a masked gunman walks in and takes everyone hostage. You must bargain for your life against a twisted …
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