4* He’s your perfect date. You’re his next victim. When the tortured body of a young woman is found in a dumpster, her eyes swollen shut and her clothes soaked with blood, Detective Erika Foster is one of the first at the crime scene. The trouble is, this time, it’s not her case. While she fights to secure…
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The Missing Ones – Patricia Gibney @trisha460 @bookouture
5* The hole they dug was not deep. A white flour bag encased the little body. Three small faces watched from the window, eyes black with terror. The child in the middle spoke without turning his head. “I wonder which one of us will be next?” How’s that for a prologue? The Missing Ones is the…
Quieter Than Killing – Sarah Hilary
5* It’s winter, the nights are dark and freezing, and a series of seemingly random assaults is pulling DI Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake out onto the streets of London. When Marnie’s family home is ransacked, there are signs that the burglary can only have been committed by someone who knows her. Then a child goes missing,…
The Sixth Window – Rachel Abbott
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…
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…
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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