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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