Graveland by Alan Glynn
Graveland is the final instalment in Alan Glynn’s loose trilogy of critically acclaimed thrillers charting the intersection of crime and big business. A few old faces make a return but the real link between the books is a mood of mistrust and cynicism, as well…
Poppet by Mo Hayder
Odd things have been happening at Beechway’s psychiatric unit, and AJ LeGrande, recently promoted from his nursing position, is becoming increasingly worried, not only about his staff, but about the patients. Workers have been calling in sick in order to avoid the nightshift and AJ…
The Resistance Man by Martin Walker
The Bruno, chef de police series has been my guilty reading pleasure ever since I discovered them a few months ago. The books are a delight for the senses, set in the picturesque Dordogne region of France, replete with mouth-watering recipes, full to the brim…
The Killing Game by JA Kerley
In the most random places in an Alabama city, people are dying. A rosy-cheeked college student is knocked off her bike and shot with a crossbow. A disabled black boy, with Immune Defficiency Syndrome, is stabbed through the side with a hunting knife. A genial…
The Ways of the World by Robert Goddard
Spring 1919. The Great War is over. Farmers along the former Western Front struggle to restore the shattered landscape. A new war is beginning. Not a war of bullets and shrapnel, but a war of words and promises, both kept and broken. Not a war…
The Vanishing by John Connor
Author John Connor became a barrister in 1988 and spent 15 years working for the Crown Prosecution Service in London and West Yorkshire. He was involved in over 30 homicide prosecutions and provided advice to the police in numerous undercover operations. Not to be confused with…