Title: Killer
Author: Dave Zeltserman
Pages: 214
Genre: Crime
Standalone/Series: Standalone
Release: Out Now in Paperback
Publisher: Serpent’s Tail
Synopsis
Leonard March walks free from jail after fourteen years, served after turning state’s witness against Mafia boss Salvatore Lombard. But it was only after Leonard was sentenced that the public learned that he was a Mob (Lombard’s) hitman with eighteen deaths to his [...]
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Green Review: Killer by Dave Zeltserman (Serpent’s Tail)
Review: The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (headline)
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
Published by headline and out now in hardback
I think The Brutal Telling is my first murder in Canada. A body is found in the bistro of the picturesque Three Pines. There is no sign of a weapon, a motive or a even who the man is.
The challenge for C. I. [...]
Promo: Kill Her Again by Robert Gregory Browne (Pan Books)
Kill Her Again by Robert Gregory BrownePublished by Pan Books on 1st May 2009
FBI agent Anna McBride has reached a crisis point in her life. Disgraced and demoted after leading a disastrous operation in South San Francisco, she finds herself reassigned to one of the Bureau’s Southern California satellite offices, stuck with a partner who’s [...]
The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas (Harvill Secker)
The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
Published by Harvill Secker and out now
The Chalk Circle Man is my first French crime novel in translation and it’s also the first appearance of detective Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg although, strangely, it’s not his first appearance in the UK.
And what an entrance to make. It starts innocently enough when a [...]
Promo: The Seance by John Harwood – A Victorian Mystery (Vintage)
The Seance – A Victorian Mystery by John HarwoodPublished by Vintage and out now
‘Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plough the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there…’ London, the 1880s. A young girl grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother [...]
Promo: Glady Mitchell – The Saltmarsh Murders, Tom Brown’s Body and When Last I Died (Vintage)
If you didn’t already know I’m a big fan of twitter and you get to meet, tweet with and follow tweets of some brilliant and informative people. One of the people I follow being a book-junkie is Vintage Books and it was thanks to a tweet I found out about the reissue of [...]
Review: Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason (Vintage)
Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason
Published by Vintage and Out Now
Silence of the Grave is the second in the Detective Erlendur series by Arnaldur Indridason , though forth in the series Sons of Dust and Silent Kill came out before Tainted Blood but I don’t think have been released in the UK.
It’s also [...]
Review: The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indridason (Vintage)
Title: The Draining Lake
Author: Arnaldur Indridason
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 7 August 2008
Review Copy
Synopsis
A skeleton is exposed in a drying out lake. The skeleton has an old Russian listening device tied to it. This leads detective Erledur with Elinborg and Siguraur Oli into an investigation into the cold war and what happens to those that are left [...]
Debut Review: In the Woods by Tana French
Title: In The Woods
Author: Tana French
Publisher: Hodder
Published: 14 November 07
Price: £6.99
Bought It
You can never escape your past or so they say. And Tana French plays with this idea in her debut novel, In The Woods. Rob Ryan retells the investigation into death of a small girl found in the same woods where he, but not [...]
Review: Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Black Swan)
Title: Case Histories
Author: Kate Atkinson
Publisher: Black Swan 2005
Case Histories is one of those novels that you want to start again as soon as you’ve finished it so you can go back and find out all the bits you’ve missed. Kate Atkinson has interlaced all the lives of the characters so tightly that you don’t see [...]
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