A TAP ON THE WINDOW by Linwood Barclay

A TAP ON THE WINDOW Linwood Barclay (linwoodbarclay.com) Orion (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £16.99 Heading home from an out-of-town job on a wet and miserable night, Cal Weaver stops at a red light close to Griffon, New York’s local hangout spot. When a teenage girl taps on his window and asks for a lift, Cal knows it’s the […]

PATH OF NEEDLES by Alison Littlewood

PATH OF NEEDLES Alison Littlewood (www.alisonlittlewood.co.uk) Jo Fletcher Books (www.jofletcherbooks.com) £7.99 PC Cate Corbin is one of the first officers on the scene when the body of a young girl is discovered in rural West Yorkshire. Seeing something familiar in the way the body has been posed – the gown, mirror, partially-eaten apple – Cate […]

THE HOUSE OF SILK by Anthony Horowitz

THE HOUSE OF SILK Anthony Horowitz (anthonyhorowitz.com) Orion (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £18.99 Released: 1st November Anthony Horowitz is, perhaps, best known by a certain generation of young boys as the man behind the popular Alex Rider series of books. It is, I think, less well-known that he is also the man behind some of the most popular […]

THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY by A. A. Milne

THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY A. A. Milne Vintage Classics (www.randomhouse.co.uk/vintage/vintageclassics/) £7.99 Anyone who has perused Reader Dad at any point during its so-far short life could not help but notice that I like my fiction dark and, if at all possible, violent. So, it will probably come as something of a surprise (as it does […]