5* After eighteen months of grieving for her husband Bernie, killed in a horrific hit and run accident, Natalie Gray has found love with her husband’s best friend – Ed Cooper – and has moved herself and fifteen-year-old daughter, Scarlett, into his home. But Natalie begins to suspect Ed has a dark side – and…
The Mermaids Singing – Val McDermid
3.5* YOU ALWAYS REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME… This was the summer he discovered what he wanted—at a gruesome museum of criminology far off the beaten track of more timid tourists. Visions of torture inspired his fantasies like a muse. It would prove so terribly fulfilling. This was my first introduction to Val McDermid. I’d seen…
A Room Full of Killers – Michael Wood
5* Eight killers. One house. And the almost perfect murder… I am a huge fan of the DCI Matilda Darke series and this third installment is an absolute corker! Dare I say, the best one yet! Matilda’s new case leads her to Starling House, a home for some of the country’s deadliest teenagers who are…
Ragdoll – Daniel Cole
5* One body, six victims. If that doesn’t grab your attention, I don’t know what will. It certainly grabbed mine. A body is discovered. Not just any body. It’s comprised off six different victims, stitched together to make one macabre find. A “ragdoll”, name courtesy of the media. Detective William Falkes, Wolf, has only recently…
My Sweet Revenge – Jane Fallon
4* I want to make my husband fall back in love with me. Let me explain. This isn’t an exercise in 1950s wifeydom. I haven’t been reading articles in old women’s magazines. ‘Twenty ways to keep your man’. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I want him to fall back in love with me…
Perfect Remains – Helen Fields
5* On a remote Highland mountain, the body of Elaine Buxton is burning. All that will be left to identify the respected lawyer are her teeth and a fragment of clothing. In the concealed back room of a house in Edinburgh, the real Elaine Buxton screams into the darkness. This is the first book in…
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