‘One windowThree Lies24 days is all it takes‘– The Sleeper Lies [ About the Book ] ONE WINDOW, THREE LIES I step forward, breathing fast. Movement. I force myself to take another step. I think about all of it, all of the deaths and all of the accidents and all of the pain. And I…
‘He had never heard himself scream before. It was terrifying’– Perfect Kill [ About the Book ] Alone, trapped in the darkness and with no way out, Bart Campbell knows that his chances of being found alive are slim. Drugged and kidnapped, the realisation soon dawns that he’s been locked inside a shipping container far…
Japan’s greatest classic murder mystery, now published for the first time in English with Pushkin Press– The Honjin Murders [ About the Book ] In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a daughter of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the…
Pieta has a secretJody has a secretWill telling their secrets save or sacrifice each other…– Tell Me Your Secret [ About the Book ] Pieta has a secret.Ten years ago, Pieta was kidnapped by a man calling himself The Blindfolder who said he wouldn’t kill her if she kept her eyes closed for 48 hours.…
Ten little rabbits, all dressed in whiteTried to get to heaven on the end of a kite.Kite string got broken, down they all fell,Instead of going to heaven, they all went to…– The Rabbit Hunter [ About the Book ] It begins with a nursery rhyme. Nineteen minutes later you die.A masked stranger stands in…
‘You won’t be able to look away‘–Keep Your Eyes On Me Keep Your Eyes On Me is the first standalone thriller by Sam Blake following on from the very successful crime fiction series, the Cat Connolly Trilogy. Due for publication with Corvus Books on January 2nd 2020, Keep Your Eyes On Me is described as…
AN INNOCENT GAME… A SHOCKING CRIME… A COMMUNITY FULL OF SECRETS…– I Dare You [ About the Book ] Mapledon, 1989Two little girls were out playing a game of dares. Only one returned home.The ten-year-old told police what she saw: village loner Bill ‘Creepy’ Cawley dragged her friend into his truck and disappeared.No body was…
Vengeful…Deceitful…Spiteful…Sinful… Following on from the success of Sins : New Irish Crime Stories (See my thoughts HERE), this wonderful group of Irish writers, aka the3percenters, have recently released their latest collection of short stories. Novelist, film director, screenwriter and lecturer, Ferdia Mac Anna once again picks up the baton as editor for Sinful. Working with…
It is a great pleasure to host an extract from A Death in Mayfair, the latest DCI Frank Merlin novel from Mark Ellis. I thoroughly enjoyed book 3 in this detective series, Merlin At War (Review HERE) and will have my review of A Death in Mayfair in the next week or two. But today,…
Scream all you want,no one can hear…– All That’s Dead [ About the Book ] Inspector Logan McRae is looking forward to a nice simple case – something to ease him back into work after a year off on the sick. But the powers-that-be have other ideas… The high-profile anti-independence campaigner, Professor Wilson, has gone…