Category: Thriller

Rage and Retribution by Lorraine Mace: a powerful read

Can two wrongs ever make a right? A man is found by the side of a canal, comatose and brutally attacked. It quickly becomes clear that someone is abducting men and subjecting them to horrific acts of torture. After three days they’re released, fighting for their lives and refusing to speak. A councillor is accused… Continue reading Rage and Retribution by Lorraine Mace: a powerful read

The Profit Motive by David Blecker: a ‘wow!’ read

Synopsis When firefighter Adam Sterling arrives at the scene of a horrific car crash, little does he imagine it will lead him back to his mother’s homeland. Kate, the woman he pulls from the wreckage, needs his help. Her father has been left for dead after a hit-and-run, in Wenzhou, China. She suspects it wasn’t… Continue reading The Profit Motive by David Blecker: a ‘wow!’ read

A Friend In Deed by G D Harper: totally absorbing

A Friend In Deed Britain: a few years from now. A new populist political party has won the recent general election. Duncan Jones, freelance political journalist and blogger, loses his weekly column at a national newspaper and turns to investigative reporting. The chance remark of a friend leads him to suspect that the Russians are… Continue reading A Friend In Deed by G D Harper: totally absorbing

Silent Money by G D Harper: clever, complex and engrossing

Silent Money Glasgow, 1972. Michael Mitchell is ambitious, talented and determined to succeed. But he learns the hard way that he will never achieve his goals in life – unless he plays by a different set of rules. He partners with a small-time crook to help the Glasgow underworld launder the proceeds of their crimes.… Continue reading Silent Money by G D Harper: clever, complex and engrossing

Sacrificing Starlight by David Pipe: a dark, thrilling novel

Sacrificing Starlight Time’s running out for DCI Hunter. His wife and child are missing, perhaps even dead. Unable to pursue those responsible he’s transferred to the wild landscape of Cornwall where another child has disappeared. Alice Trevelyan’s father has his own agenda and wants retribution for the loss of his little girl and metes out… Continue reading Sacrificing Starlight by David Pipe: a dark, thrilling novel

Pride, Prejudice and Poison by Elizabeth Blake: a clever, understated cosy mystery

Synopsis In this Austen-tatious debut, antiquarian bookstore proprietor Erin Coleridge uses her sense and sensibility to deduce who killed the president of the local Jane Austen Society. Erin Coleridge’s used bookstore in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England is a meeting place for the villagers and, in particular, for the local Jane Austen Society. At the Society’s… Continue reading Pride, Prejudice and Poison by Elizabeth Blake: a clever, understated cosy mystery

Bridge to Eternity by Romola Farr: highly intriguing

Bridge to Eternity Audrey, recently widowed, is not saying why she left her comfortable home in the south of England to move into an old school boarding house on the edge of a moor. Tina, a young estate agent, is concerned for Audrey’s safety as she believes the folklore about a schoolboy who never went… Continue reading Bridge to Eternity by Romola Farr: highly intriguing

Palm Trees in the Pyrenees by Elly Grant: complex, compelling – and what an ending!

Palm Trees in the Pyrenees A rookie cop, a dash of mysterious death, and a heap of suspicion – as the heat rises, lethal tensions boil over in the Pyrenees. Unappreciated, unnoticed, and passed over for promotion, thirty-year-old Danielle’s fledgling career in law enforcement is going nowhere – until the unexpected death of a hated… Continue reading Palm Trees in the Pyrenees by Elly Grant: complex, compelling – and what an ending!

The Kompromat Kill by Michael Jenkins: an energetic and exciting novel

Synopsis They were preparing for decades – now it’s time to take them down. When a British Diplomat is kidnapped in the heart of London, followed by a brutal double-assassination in Chelsea, MI5 braces for the threat of deep sleeper cells coming alive. Hiding overseas with a price on his head, Sean Richardson is tasked… Continue reading The Kompromat Kill by Michael Jenkins: an energetic and exciting novel