The Kept Woman
Written by Karin Slaughter — Keeping tabs on the myriad plot strands in a Karin Slaughter novel is like knitting with jelly, and number eight in the American author’s Will Trent series is a particularly slippery customer. Will hasn’t been around since 2013 and Unseen –…
The Girl in Green by Derek B Miller
Whether through good fortune, or more likely canny planning by the marketing department at Faber & Faber, Miller’s second novel arrives at an opportune time. As the United Kingdom digests the findings of the Chilcot Enquiry, The Girl in the Green takes us back to the…
The Far Empty
If it was down to cover alone, J Todd Scott’s effort might just end up as book of the year. But it’s what’s inside that really matters and The Far Empty is set in the outlaw country just inside Texas on the Mexican border. The…
Redemption Road
Written by John Hart and narrated by Scott Shepherd, this audiobook comes with a strong recommendation because of its compellingly written female characters. The story is about Elizabeth Black, a cop with 13 years experience, who goes to rescue an 18-year-old girl but, when she…
Last Light
CJ Lyons immerses us in small town Texas in this cold case thriller. Ex-FBI agent Lucy Guardino is head hunted by a consulting agency that tries to solve cases the authorities couldn’t… or at least the ones they couldn’t resolve properly. Down in Blackwell County, Texas,…
The Time to Kill
Written by Mason Cross — Carter Blake is a man for hire. He tracks down people who don’t want to be found and he’s very good at his job having been trained by a covert government department called Winterlong. Blake is currently in California, engaged by…
The Far Empty by J Todd Scott
It’s hard to believe this well-crafted crime thriller is a debut novel. The author’s experience as a DEA agent lends authority to his prose, and his meticulous rendering of the Big Bend country south and east of El Paso, Texas, and its fictional town, Murfee,…