This very good little thriller is a stand alone from Robotham. Audie Palmer escapes from prison the day before he is due to be released after serving ten years for armed robbery. Why, you’ve gotta ask? As the story unfolds it turns out he has ample reason, and his story is a very sorry one. […]
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Year One by Nora Roberts
Year One starts off promising enough, with the coming of a plague (“The Doom”) which will SPOILER ALERT eventually wipe out eighty per cent of the world’s population. But it goes rapidly downhill when the ‘magick’ starts. Some people can suddenly light candles with a sweep of their hands, which is, indisputably, a handy skill […]
The Father by Anton Svensson
The blurb on this novel states The Father is an ‘unforgettable, thrilling crime novel of how three brothers came to be Sweden’s most wanted criminals, inspired by the true story and written by the fourth brother.” Well. Let’s hope the brothers are happy with it. It’s a good novel, well written, and manages to convey […]
An Isolated Incident by Emily Maquire
An Isolated Incident has been marketed as a thriller but it’s actually not; it’s a study in grief. Bella Michaels is brutally raped and murdered near the small Australian town where she lives and her sister, Chris, must somehow live through her grief. It’s not so much a whodunnit as a study in how violent death […]
Our House by Louise Candlish
Wow, this one is a winner. Fi Lawson is stunned to see a moving truck outside her house when she arrives home one day, with a woman inside claiming she and her husband are the new owners of Fi’s house. And you know what, they are, thanks to Fi’s f*$ked-up husband. How and why this […]
Don’t Believe It by Charlie Donlea
Sidney Ryan specialises in making documentaries about people who’ve been locked up for crimes they didn’t commit. She begins a documentary about Grace Sebold, imprisioned for ten years in St. Lucia for the death of her boyfriend, but then Sidney discovers that a previous boyfriend of Grace’s died in remarkably similar circumstances, and the story […]
The Punishment She Deserves by Elizabeth George
This is apparently number twenty in George’s Inspector Lynley series. I hadn’t read any the previous nineteen but it doesn’t matter much. Lynley sounds like a dish; his offsider Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is his polar opposite in appearance and confidence and class but by golly she’s a good copper and Lynley appreciates her, even […]
The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson
The breathless review by Yrsa Sigurdardottir on the front cover compelled me to nab this one quickly and devour it. Sigurdardottir, an Icelandic crime writer, produced one of my Top Five Thrillers, and any Icelandic crime novel she calls a masterpiece is good is enough for me. And sure enough The Darkness is a good […]