Review: The Long Weekend by Gilly Macmillan

Book release date: 3 February 2022 Book blurb: By the time you read this, I’ll have killed one of your husbands. In an isolated retreat, deep in the Northumbria moors, three women arrive for a weekend getaway. Their husbands will be joining them in the morning. Or so they think. But when they get to

Review: A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

Book release date: 3 February 2022 Book blurb: Chloe Davis’ father is a serial killer. He was convicted and jailed when she was twelve but the bodies of the girls were never found, seemingly lost in the surrounding Louisiana swamps. The case became notorious and Chloe’s family was destroyed. His crimes stalk her like a

Review: The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

Book release date: 13 January 2022 Book blurb: It’s time to solve the murder of the century… Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children’s book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Wanting to know more, he took it to his English teacher Miss

Review: One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner

Book release date: 20 January 2022 Book blurb: A young man disappears during a stag weekend in the woods. Years later, he’s still missing. But his friends who were with him that day are still searching for him. Still hunting for answers. They hike deep into the wilderness. With them is missing person specialist Frankie

Review: I Know What You’ve Done by Dorothy Koomson

Book release date: 8 July 2021 Book blurb: What if all your neighbours’ secrets landed in a diary on your doorstep? What if the woman who gave it to you was murdered by one of the people in the diary? What if the police asked if you knew anything? Would you hand over the book

Review: The Killing Song by Lesley McEvoy

Book release date: 2 December 2021 (ebook), 12 May 2022 (paperback) Book blurb: On a busy train station platform, a man pulls a knife and viciously attacks another passenger before fleeing – apparently unaware of what he has just done. To the police, it looks like a terrorist attack. But Forensic Psychologist Dr Jo McCready

Review: The Murder Mile by Lesley McEvoy

Book release date: 11 March 2021 (ebook), 20 December 2021 (paperback) Book blurb: Forensic Psychologist Jo McCready was the last person to see her patient, Martha Scott, alive. During their final session, Jo unearthed a chilling alternate personality claiming to be the reincarnation of Jack the Ripper. Shortly after, Martha is murdered. But if ‘Jack’

Review: Fair Warning by Michael Connelly

Book release date: 26 May 2020 Book blurb: Jack McEvoy is a reporter with a track record in finding killers. But he’s never been accused of being one himself. Jack went on one date with Tina Portrero. The next thing he knows, the police are at his house telling Jack he’s a suspect in her

Review: The Bone Code by Kathy Reichs

Book release date: 14 October 2021 (paperback) Book blurb: NO CRIME CAN STAY HIDDEN FOREVER When a hurricane hits the Carolinas it uncovers two bodies, sharing uncanny similarities with a cold case in Quebec that has haunted Temperance Brennan for fifteen years. At the same time, a rare bacterium that can eat human flesh is

Review: Hyde by Craig Russell

Book release date: 29 April 2021 Book blurb: Edward Hyde has a strange gift – or a curse – he keeps secret from all but his physician. He experiences two realities, one real, the other a dreamworld state brought on by a neurological condition. When murders in Victorian Edinburgh echo the ancient Celtic threefold death