KNOCK KNOCK Anders Roslund (andersroslund.se) Harvill Secker (penguin.co.uk) £12.99 Seventeen years ago Detective Inspector Ewert Grens arrived at a crime scene to discover a birthday party interrupted. A 5-year-old girl dances around her apartment singing happy birthday to herself as the rest of her family lie dead, two bullets in each of their heads in […]
Read More KNOCK KNOCK by Anders RoslundTHE WHOLE TRUTH Cara Hunter Penguin Books (penguin.co.uk) £7.99 A sexual assault and harassment complaint seems an unusual case to land on Detective Inspector Adam Fawley’s desk, but that’s where it ends up. A university student’s word against a well-respected professor. Except there’s a twist. Strapping rugby player Caleb Morgan claims that the diminutive Marina […]
Read More THE WHOLE TRUTH by Cara HunterDON’T TURN AROUND Jessica Barry Vintage (penguin.co.uk) £7.99 Start from Chapter 1 at A Little Book Problem. Or find Chapter 13 at Shaz’s Book Blog. CHAPTER 14 TWO YEARS EARLIER The cut and scrape of silverware on good china. The tinkling of champagne glasses clinking together in a toast. The murmur of polite conversation, gentle […]
Read More An Extract From DON’T TURN AROUND by Jessica BarryTHE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET Catriona Ward Viper (serpentstail.com/viper) £12.99 Ted Bannerman lives in the house at the end of Needless Street with his cat, Olivia. Sometimes his daughter, Lauren, comes to stay; sometimes the visits are fun, and often they’re stressful. Delilah Walters has one mission in life: to find and punish the […]
Read More THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET by Catriona WardLATER Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hard Case Crime (hardcasecrime.com) £8.99 Looking back on it, I sometimes think my life was like a Dickens novel, only with swearing. From a young age Jamie Conklin has been able to see dead people. Sometimes it’s difficult to tell, because they don’t look like anyone’s conventional idea of a ghost, […]
Read More LATER by Stephen KingTHE KILLING CHOICE Will Shindler Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £16.99 A man walks with his adult daughter through a quiet park in East London. Confronted by a man in a strange mask and carrying a knife, he is offered a choice: walk away and allow his daughter to be raped, or stay and die. This […]
Read More THE KILLING CHOICE by Will ShindlerINSCAPE Louise Carey(louise-carey.com) Gollancz (gollancz.co.uk) £14.99 In the future, London is run by giant corporations. Less like a city and more like a series of campuses, everyone who lives in the city is affiliated with one “Corp” or other, while those who live outside in the Unaffiliated Zone are seen as outcasts at best, dangerous […]
Read More INSCAPE by Louise CareyTHE LAST THING TO BURN Will Dean Hodder & Stoughton (https://www.hodder.co.uk/) £12.99 Leonard – Lenn to those that know him – lives in the small farmhouse on Fen Farm in which he was born, and in which he has lived his whole life; first with his mother, Jane; then with his first wife, also called […]
Read More THE LAST THING TO BURN by Will DeanONE BY ONE Ruth Ware (https://ruthware.com/) Harvill Secker (https://www.penguin.co.uk/) £12.99 The directors and shareholders of Snoop, the hottest new music/social media app, have hired a cabin in the little alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, where they aim to take a well-earned break and chew over the multi-million dollar buyout that could make them all […]
Read More ONE BY ONE by Ruth WareONE BY ONE by Ruth Ware is published in hardback (priced £12.99) by Harvill Secker on 12th November 2020.
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