Tastes Like Fear
Remember when Sarah Hilary’s debut novel Someone Else’s Skin was released to acclaim two years ago? We certainly do. And how quickly the West Country writer has become one of the UK’s leading voices when it comes to psychological crime fiction. Her third novel, Tastes…
The Fire Child
Written by SK Tremayne — Cornwall, land of rugged coastlines and tasty pasties. Where your most taxing problem might be whether to put the clotted cream or the jam first onto your scones.The perfect setting, you would think, to start married life. And when your new home…
The Optician's Wife by Betsy Reavley
Every single thing about Deborah Campaign seems to be ordinary. If they notice her at all, people see frizzy hair, a slightly pear-shaped build, charity shop clothes and an unremarkable checkout girl in Woolworths. At home, in the anonymous terraced house in a quiet Cambridge…
Baby Doll
Written by Hollie Overton — Twins have loomed large in some of fiction’s finest moments. Who can forget that creepy pair in Stephen King’s The Shining, and how about David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers for unnerving? SK Tremayne’s The Ice Twins – one of my favourite crime…
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel
Written by AJ Hartley and David Hewson, narrated by Richard Armitage — OK, OK, before you say, “been there, done that Hamlet thing—five times, maybe 10,” this is another Hamlet animal altogether. As an inveterate audiobook fan, I will say that the Hartley/Hewson Macbeth, narrated…
SK Tremayne's latest trick
You wouldn’t think it possible given the quality of SK Tremayne’s first psychological thriller, The Ice Twins, but the author has come up with something potentially even cleverer. Riffing on that twins theme, SK Tremayne has actually gone out and written two identical books. They’ve…