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This week’s reviews are:
I Could be You by Sheila
Bugler, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
When Dee Doran comes across
the victim of an apparent hit-and-run driver, she is horrified to find an empty
baby’s buggy nearby, with the woman’s child missing.
The Other People by CJ
Tudor, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Gabe cannot believe his
daughter is dead. But his search for her is driving him ever closer to a
death-trap of revenge.
Now You See Them by Elly
Griffiths, reviewed by Viv Beeby
Brighton 1963 and a
schoolgirl has gone missing from exclusive private school Roedean. It looks
like she's a runaway but there are disturbing similarities to the
disappearances of a young local nurse and a teenage Modette.
Westwind by Ian Rankin,
reviewed by John Cleal
Satellite surveillance
monitor Martin Hepton is baffled when its pictures from space fail for a
crucial period. Days later an American shuttle crashes, killing its crew bar
the lone British astronaut. Martin’s attempts to discover what went wrong
plunge him into a deadly international
conspiracy.
Not Saying Goodbye by Boris
Akunin, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Detective Erast Fandorin
wakes after three years in a coma in a world he barely recognises – Russia in
the throes of revolution.
Maigret in Vichy by Georges
Simenon, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Maigret is ordered to take
the waters in the spa town of Vichy, but his rest cure is disturbed when a
woman is murdered.
Absolution by Yrsa
Sigurðardóttir , reviewed by Ewa Sherman
Detective Huldar and child
psychologist Freya are working together again. Their own relationship goes
through various stages as they investigate vicious murders in Reykjavik, being
announced by a killer via Snapchat.
The Bitterroots by CJ Box,
reviewed by Chris Roberts
Private investigator Cassie
Dewell is asked to check the evidence against a man accused of rape. She’s
initially unsympathetic, but is surprised at what she uncovers.
Die Alone by Simon Kernick,
reviewed by Linda Wilson
Disgraced copper Ray Mason
didn’t ask to be broken out of prison. The people responsible want someone dead
and they’ve decided that Mason is best placed to make that happen. The only
problem is that the target is a candidate for the top job in British politics.
One Good Deed by David
Baldacci, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Aloysius Archer is
discharged from prison in 1949 to the southern US town of Poca. He is offered
work by a local businessman, collecting on a debt, but the job turns out to
have complications.
Our Little Secrets by Peter
Ritchie, reviewed by John Cleal
The ambitious and
hard-bitten DI Janet Hadden seeks help from a gang boss to boost her own
career. But in a fast-changing underworld there’s always a price to pay.
Too Close by Natalie
Daniels, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
The staff in the
psychiatric hospital where Connie is incarcerated say she committed a terrible
crime. She says she can’t remember a thing.
Trolls by Stefan Spjut,
reviewed by Ewa Sherman
When a huge wolf escapes
his captors and a dangerous cult leader escapes the psychiatric facility it can
only mean that a young woman, Susso, might be in danger again. Years ago she
killed a troll and since then her life has been traumatic.
Death in the East by Abir
Mukherjee, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Captain Sam Wyndham is in
the hills of Assam taking a cure for his opium addiction, when events bring to
mind his experiences as a young constable in London in 1905, 17 years before.
The Haven: Revolution by
Simon Lelic, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Pupils are going missing
from an elite boarding school. Ollie Turner knows it’s a job for the kids of
the underground community, the Haven, and that’s even before he knows quite how
personal the connection is.
Edgar Allan Poe and the
Empire of the Dead by Karen Lee Street, reviewed by John Cleal
Edgar Allan Poe travels to
Paris to help his friend, the detective Chevalier C Auguste Dupin, hunt down
the criminal who brought his family to death and ruin. Their search takes them
into the Empire of the Dead, the tunnels of the necropolis which run beneath
the city.
An Unwanted Guest by Shari
Lapena, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Gwen Delaney may live to
regret booking herself and her friend into the hotel – if she stays alive.
Ungentlemanly Warfare by
Howard Linskey, reviewed by John Cleal
Lone wolf Captain Harry
Walsh is parachuted into occupied France by the SOE to kill a German scientist
and delay development of a rocket plane that could change the face of aerial
warfare.
Sea of Bones by Deborah
O’Donoghue, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
The coroner’s report states
suicide, but Juliet MacGillivray cannot believe her niece would have taken her
own life.
The Runner by Stephen
Leather, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Sally Page runs for a
hobby, and as her job for MI5 is only at the very bottom of the tree, nowhere
near the front line, she never expected to have to run for her life. But when
she comes back from a coffee run to find several of her colleagues dead, that’s
exactly when she has to do.
Best wishes
Sharon and Linda
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