Thriller

This first novel from Susi Fox, a GP, has much to recommend it, and yet I don’t quite love it. When Sasha Maloney, a pathologist, wakes up in hospital after an emergency C-section, she is told she has a baby boy. She feels nothing for the baby she is presented with and becomes convinced he […]

You know in the first few pages of this novel that the title is ironic, because archeologist Marco Moretti is such a vain, preening prick it’s clear he’s not a part of any perfect couple. The writing is pretty workaday (everyone is so good looking and the children so well adjusted) but the plot twists are […]

Pity the poor mother, Jenny, in this book. She works as a GP and her husband is a neurosurgeon. Jenny juggles the kids, work, the dog and the house, enabling her husband to consistently put his work first, and firmly believing they are a happy family. Suddenly her fifteen year old daughter Naomi goes missing […]

A real winner of a police thriller from first time writer McTiernan, set in Ireland. Her main character, officer Cormac Reilly, is the sort of a chap you’d quite like to have a beer with but he is kept rather busy figuring out the politics and agendas within the Garda police station where he works. […]

This ghost story set in a prison near the Yorkshire moors never quite gets off the ground. It isn’t half as involving as Carey’s two other novels – The Girl With All the Gifts and The Boy on The Bridge. Not terrible, but disappointing considering we know what Carey is capable of.  

Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock has a complicated life. She has a demanding career and a young son with a man who she’s clearly not in love with. She is also is having a passionate affair with her partner, who has his own wife and children. Essentially she has all the hallmarks of your typical hard […]

When the body of a baby is found in a building site, two women are thoroughly shaken but for entirely different reasons. Angela, seeking closure, feels it may be the body of her baby, stolen from the maternity ward many years ago. Emma knows exactly whose baby it is but the revelation forces her to confront […]

A nice, amiable bit of fiction from Lisa Jewel with an unexpected twist at the end. Alice Lake, a hopelessly disorganised but essentially good person, invites a man she finds on the beach to stay out the back of her place. The man has no memory of who he is and his identity is tied […]