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This
week’s reviews are:
SAFE
HOUSES by Dan Fesperman, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
Helen
Abell, a young woman new to the CIA, arrives in Berlin in 1979. She is
disappointed when her Chief of Station, who dislikes her, assigns her to a routine
job overseeing a number of safe houses. One evening she is in one of the houses
when two sets of visitors arrive unannounced and she learns
two very
important secrets.
THE GOOD
SISTER by Morgan Jones, reviewed by Chris Roberts
When a
17-year-old girl makes her way from the UK to Syria, her father is determined
to find her and bring her home.
THE
GRAVE’S A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE by Alan Bradley, reviewed by Linda
Wilson
Flavia de
Luce’s family holiday is enlivened when she finds a dead body in the river.
Naturally, she’s determined to investigate.
THE
WANTED by Robert Crais, reviewed by John Cleal
A worried
mother calls in PI Elvis Cole when she finds a $40,000 watch in her son’s
bedroom. Cole makes a connection to a series of burglaries in the city’s
poshest areas. The boy flees – and killings follow.
DEATH
NOTICE by Zhou Hauhui, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Chengdu
police find it difficult to cope with a man calling himself Eumenides, who acts
as self-appointed judge and executioner of those whose crimes have gone
unpunished.
THIS I
WOULD KILL FOR by Anne Buist, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Forensic
psychiatrist Natalie King is facing a liar or an abuser with a little girl
stuck in the middle.
PANIC
ROOM by Robert Goddard, reviewed by Linda Wilson
A simple
valuation job turns out to be more complex than estate agent Don Challenor had
expected
WHEN
TROUBLE SLEEPS by Leye Adenle, reviewed by John Cleal
Lagos
lawyer Amaka Mbadiwe makes herself a target for assassination when she tries to
save a man from a street killing and becomes involved in political and sexual
corruption at the highest level.
NIGHT
TOWN by Timothy Hallinan, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Los
Angeles burglar Junior Bender takes on a commission, although the money offered
looks a little too good. When a competitor is killed he wants to know why.
BAD BLOOD
by EV Chirovici, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Joshua
Fleischer awoke in a hotel room with a murdered woman. Now, 40 years later, he
needs psychiatrist James Cobb to help him find out what happened.
THE RED
RIBBON by HB Lyle, reviewed by John Cleal
Wiggins,
once leader of Sherlock Holmes’ Baker Street Irregulars and now an unwilling
member of the fledgling security services, must run down government leaks which
threaten Britain’s security while pursuing his own mission of revenge.
THE DRUID
OF DEATH by Richard T Ryan, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
When a
body is found at Stonehenge on the vernal equinox, Lestrade calls on Sherlock
Holmes for help.
THE
MOMENT BEFORE DROWNING by James Brydon, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
Jacques
le Garrec, a French wartime resistance leader and former policeman, has just
returned from two years’ service in Algeria during the colonial war. He has
been sent back to France to stand trial, having been accused a committing a
brutal crime.
A KILLING
MIND by Luke Delaney, reviewed by Linda Wilson
A serial
killer is at work, taking grisly trophies from his victims. DI Sean Corrigan’s
bosses want results, and they want them fast.
THE
LONELY WITNESS by William Boyle, reviewed by John Cleal
Former
party girl Amy Falconetti now helps the house-bound receive communion while
trying to sort out her own attitudes. When she witnesses a street murder, she
fails to report it and instead trails the killer.
ONLY TO
SLEEP by Lawrence Osborne, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Philip
Marlowe comes out of retirement to investigate a man said to have drowned on a
Mexican beach, leaving a tidy sum in life insurance to his attractive widow.
THE
POISON BED by EC Fremantle, reviewed by John Cleal
Amid the
religious and political rivalries of the Stuart court of James 1, Frances and
Robert Carr, one of the most powerful couples in the land, face death on
suspicion of murder.
UNSTOPPABLE
by Dan Freeman, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Fourteen-year-old
Roxy and Kaine are twins. Roxy’s ambition is to win Wimbledon, Kaine’s is to
play professional football. Together, they used to be unstoppable, but that was
a long time ago.
AFTER THE
DEATH OF ELLEN KELDBERG by Eddie Thomas Petersen, reviewed by Ewa
Sherman
The
artist Ellen Keldberg has been found frozen on a street bench in Skagen. Soon
two visitors arrive in town: her nephew Mikkel who has to organise a funeral,
and Anne Sofie, a young reckless photographer obsessed with death. As their
paths cross a history of old and new secrets come to the surface.
LAST MAN
STANDING by Stephen Leather, reviewed by Linda Wilson
SAS
trooper Matt Standing receives a plea for help from the sister of someone who
once saved his life, and Standing isn’t someone who can turn down a friend in
need.
Best
wishes
Sharon
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