An incredible debut that's quite unlike anything I've ever read before! Marie Tierney has created some unforgettable characters in this very unique, compelling story. Blurb: Thirteen-year-old Ava Bonney is unlike other children. Exceptionally bright, she has an obsessive interest in the rate at which dead animals decompose. The motorway she lives by regularly offers up... Continue Reading →
Jonah Colley is a police sergeant working for the Met's firearms unit. He's not the happiest soul - as one too often finds with many of the police procedural books currently being written. But then, he doesn't have much in his life to be happy about. He's merely been existing day to day for the... Continue Reading →
Small towns, castles, close-knit community, folklore and legend ... throw all that at me and I'm happy! And this book has all of this by the truckload! Add in the obligatory secrets, lies, old friends and wariness of anyone who is 'different' and you've got the perfect recipe for a slow-burning, spine-tingling thriller. In Rites... Continue Reading →
The year is 1904 and Thomas Bexley works for Scotland Yard as a specialist investigator in forensics. He is dispatched to the small village of Dinas Powys in South Wales, where a young girl, Betsan Tilney, has apparently been murdered in a most bizarre way. He arrives and is almost immediately struck down by a... Continue Reading →
Although this is is the second in a series featuring DC Cat Kinsella, and it's recommended that the first book, Sweet Little Lies, be read first, Stone Cold Heart can easily be read as a standalone as the reader is provided with enough background information. The book starts off with Joseph Madden, Cat's barista seemingly... Continue Reading →
The fact that Gary Bell is himself a QC contributes to this being an excellent description of the British justice system with all its intricacies laid bare. One can't help but compare this to the many courtroom and legal dramas, on both our shelves and screens and I for one find all of it truly... Continue Reading →
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