News

Murder, beautiful murder

By
On the radar — This week’s book report has a distinctly European flavour to it with all of our books focusing on crimes with their roots in the past. We start our travels in Germany with a modern day fairytale that’s every bit as dark as…
Read more
KindlePrintReviews

The Killing Pool

By
Written by Kevin Sampson — Welcome to The Killing Pool, a book that’s so dark you may well need a torch to read it. Set in the mean streets of Liverpool, it features the lowest of lowlifes – and I don’t just mean the criminals. Liverpool…
Read more
iBookKindlePrintReviews

Malice in the Cotswolds

By
Written by Rebecca Tope — Fans of cosy crime fiction will probably already be familiar with the name of Rebecca Tope, but you needn’t feel you are missing out if this – the tenth book – is in fact your first encounter with the Cotswold mystery…
Read more
KindlePrintReviews

The Ranger

By
Written by Ace Atkins — Army Ranger Quinn Colson is coming home. Home from Iraq. Home from Afghanistan. Home to Jericho, Mississippi, and his uncle’s funeral. Hampton Beckett was the County Sheriff until he put the barrel of a .44 in his mouth and pulled…
Read more
KindlePrintReviews

White Lilies

By
Written by RC Bridgestock — Authors Bob and Carol Bridgestock came to writing late. First there was the little matter of following a career, and both were employed by West Yorkshire Police – Bob as a copper for 30 years, holding every rank within the CID…
Read more
KindlePrintReviews

Dark Echoes

By
Written by Bruce Crowther — Harry Kenning and Billy Ross are former Hollywood actors who never quite hit the big time. Back in the 1950s, the glory days of Rialto Pictures Studios, they were better known as the Hurricane Kid and Smiley Browne, but they have…
Read more