Category: Mystery & Thriller
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Amok – Sebastian Fitzek
Title: AmokAuthor: Sebastian FitzekPublished by: Head of ZeusPublication date: 11th Nov 2021Genre: ThrillerPages: 464Format: eBookSource: NetGalley Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis This morning a dangerous psychopath is playing an old game with new rules. He’s taken six people hostage at Berlin’s leading radio station. Every hour, a telephone will ring somewhere in Berlin. Maybe it…
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The Shadow People – Graham Masterton
Title: The Shadow PeopleAuthor: Graham MastertonPublished by: Head of ZeusPublication date: 9th Dec 2021Genre: HorrorPages: 384Format: eBookSource: NetGalley Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis Jerry Pardoe and Jamila Patel hunt down a ritualistic cult inspired by Neolithic cannibals in the new chilling horror from Graham Masterton. Det. Sgt. Jamila Patel and Det. Con. Jerry Pardoe have…
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The Burning – Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman
Title: The BurningAuthor: Jonathan and Jesse KellermanPublished by: Random House UK, CornerstonePublication date: 21st September 2021Genre: Thriller, CrimePages: 304Format: HardbackSource: Publisher Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis When a wealthy man is found murdered in his hilltop home, Deputy Coroner Clay Edison is shocked to discover a link to his own brother Luke on the…
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You were never really here – Jonathan Ames
Title: You were never really hereAuthor: Jonathan AmesPublished by: Pushkin PressPublication date: Jan 6th 2013Genre: ThrillerPages: 112Format: PaperbackSource: Bury Library Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis A former Marine and ex-FBI agent, Joe has seen one too many crime scenes and known too much trauma, and not just in his professional life. Solitary and…
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When the Bough Breaks – Jonathan Kellerman
Title: When the Bough BreaksAuthor: Jonathan KellermanPublished by: Penguin, Random HousePublication date: April 1st 1985Genre: Crime/ThrillerPages: 432Format: PaperbackSource: Private Collection Blurb/Synopsis In the first Alex Delaware novel, we meet Dr. Morton Handler who practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered…
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The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman
Title: The Thursday Murder ClubAuthor: Richard OsmanPublished by: Viking – PenguinPublication date: 3rd Sept 2020Genre: Crime/ThrillerPages: 400Format: HardbackSource: Private Collection Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep,…
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The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
Title: The SilkwormAuthor: Robert GalbraithPublished by: SpherePublication date: June 19th 2014Genre: Crime/ThrillerPages: 592Format: HardbackSource: Bury Library Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days – as…
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Last One to Die – Cynthia Murphy
Title: Last One to DieAuthor: Cynthia MurphyPublished by: ScholasticPublication date: January 7th 2021Genre: Young Adult/MysteryPages: 294Format: PaperbackSource: Bury Library Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis Young, brunette women are being attacked in the city of London. 16-year-old, Irish-born Niamh has just arrived for the summer, and quickly discovers that the girls being attacked look…
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Dead Wrong – Helen H Durrant
Title: Dead WrongAuthor: Helen H. DurrantPublished by: Joffe BooksPublication date: 3rd July 2015Genre: Crime/ThrillerPages: 206Format: PaperbackSource: Private Collection Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis First a shooting, then a grisly discovery on the common . . . Police partners, D.I. Calladine and D.S. Ruth Bayliss race against time to track down a killer before the whole…
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Over my Dead Body – Jeffrey Archer
Title: Over my Dead BodyAuthor: Jeffrey ArcherPublished by: Harper CollinsPublication date: 14th Oct 2021Genre: CrimePages: 384Format: eBook / ARCSource: NetGalley Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis In London, the Metropolitan Police set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit – a cold case squad – to catch the criminals nobody else can. In Geneva, millionaire art…