Thursday, August 03, 2017

Crime Review Update

We feature new 20 reviews in each issue of Crime Review (
www.crimereview.co.uk), together with a top industry interview. This time
it’s author Marnie Riches in the Countdown hot seat.



We’re on Twitter at:

Crime Review: @CrimeReviewUK

Linda Wilson: @CrimeReviewer

Sharon Wheeler: @lartonmedia



This week’s reviews are:



CAMINO ISLAND by John Grisham, reviewed by Chris Roberts

Writer Mercer Mann is recruited by an insurance company to get close to a
book dealer who they suspect is holding stolen manuscripts worth a fortune.



NO DOMINION by Louise Welsh, reviewed by Linda Wilson

The community of plague survivors on Orkney is threatened by the arrival of
three strangers.



DEFECTORS by Joseph Kanon, reviewed by Arnold Taylor

It is 1961 and Simon Weeks, head of booksellers Keating & Sons, leaves for
Moscow to meet his defector brother Frank, who has asked him to publish his
memoirs.



THE TRAP by Melanie Raabe , reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor

Reclusive famous writer Linda Conrad has seen the reporter’s face once
before – the night he killed her sister.



NONE BUT THE DEAD by Lin Anderson, reviewed by John Barnbrook

The discovery of symbolic muslin roses and the unearthing of a human skull
are the forerunners of a series of events that will rock the community of
far-flung Sanday in the Orkneys and will lead to the arrival of Dr Rhona
MacLeod, a forensic expert and other mainland police officers.



THE CHILD by Fiona Barton, reviewed by John Cleal

The discovery of a baby’s skeleton on a building site reveals a decades old
tragedy which means different things to three women.



JACK THE RIPPER: CASE CLOSED by Gyles Brandreth, reviewed by John Barnbrook

Oscar Wilde has a close friendship with Arthur Conan Doyle and encourages
him to join him in the search for the identity of the infamous Jack the
Ripper.



BLUE LIGHT YOKOHAMA by Nicolas Obregon, reviewed by Chris Roberts

A young detective assigned to the murder of a Korean family on the
outskirts of Tokyo uncovers links to other deaths where the killer left the
sign of the black sun. 


We feature new 20 reviews in each issue of Crime Review (
www.crimereview.co.uk), together with a top industry interview. This time
it’s author Marnie Riches in the Countdown hot seat.



We’re on Twitter at:

Crime Review: @CrimeReviewUK

Linda Wilson: @CrimeReviewer

Sharon Wheeler: @lartonmedia



This week’s reviews are:



CAMINO ISLAND by John Grisham, reviewed by Chris Roberts

Writer Mercer Mann is recruited by an insurance company to get close to a
book dealer who they suspect is holding stolen manuscripts worth a fortune.



NO DOMINION by Louise Welsh, reviewed by Linda Wilson

The community of plague survivors on Orkney is threatened by the arrival of
three strangers.



DEFECTORS by Joseph Kanon, reviewed by Arnold Taylor

It is 1961 and Simon Weeks, head of booksellers Keating & Sons, leaves for
Moscow to meet his defector brother Frank, who has asked him to publish his
memoirs.



THE TRAP by Melanie Raabe , reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor

Reclusive famous writer Linda Conrad has seen the reporter’s face once
before – the night he killed her sister.



NONE BUT THE DEAD by Lin Anderson, reviewed by John Barnbrook

The discovery of symbolic muslin roses and the unearthing of a human skull
are the forerunners of a series of events that will rock the community of
far-flung Sanday in the Orkneys and will lead to the arrival of Dr Rhona
MacLeod, a forensic expert and other mainland police officers.



THE CHILD by Fiona Barton, reviewed by John Cleal

The discovery of a baby’s skeleton on a building site reveals a decades old
tragedy which means different things to three women.



JACK THE RIPPER: CASE CLOSED by Gyles Brandreth, reviewed by John Barnbrook

Oscar Wilde has a close friendship with Arthur Conan Doyle and encourages
him to join him in the search for the identity of the infamous Jack the
Ripper.



BLUE LIGHT YOKOHAMA by Nicolas Obregon, reviewed by Chris Roberts

A young detective assigned to the murder of a Korean family on the
outskirts of Tokyo uncovers links to other deaths where the killer left the
sign of the black sun.

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