After several years, Ann Cleeves has brought back DI Jimmy Perez! DI Perez has left Shetland and settled into his new home in the Orkney Islands, with his partner in crime and in life, Willow Reeves, and they're expecting a baby. After a wild storm, Archie Stout, a local personality and Perez's childhood friend, is …
Continue reading The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves (Shetland #9, Perez & Reeves #1)
A heavily pregnant Sargent Hill and DCI Lloyd (her partner on and off the job), are helping out at the local amateur dramatic society right before Christmas when the DCI gets a call that the local GPs wife has been found murdered in her home. The GP happens to be part of the play, and …
Continue reading Scene Of Crime: A Christmas Murder Mystery by Jill McGown
Det Kaitlyn Kruse has a very unusual ability: she dreams about her past lives, and the memories help her solve her cases, often through the professional knowledge of her past selves. When investigating a crime on a Seattle hiking trail, Kruse and her partner Joe think they may have found the body of a missing …
Continue reading Killer Insight by Karoline Anderson (Bk 1. Kaitlyn Kruse Series)
When the body of a missing staff member is found in the early hours on the common outside Rosebank, a care home for teens, DCI Vera Stanhope is assigned the case. The death seems linked to missing 14 year old Chloe, which is unsettling. Vera does not want to believe that a troubled 14 year …
Continue reading The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves (Vera Stanhope #11)
Alfred, a true Hitchcock fan, has opened a hotel themed after the movies by his favourite director, and it's full of memorabilia and references to films like North By Northwest, The Birds, Vertigo and more. When the hotel reaches it's first anniversary, he decides to invite his former college film studies buddies for a celebration, …
I was very excited to get my hot little hands on the latest volume of the Cesare Aldo series. This is a crime mystery series set in 1500's Florence, and A Divine Fury is the fourth book in the series. (For reviews or more information about the other titles, Ritual Of Fire HERE, The Darkest …
Continue reading A Divine Fury by DV Bishop (Cesare Aldo Book #4)
Judge Belvin Perry Jr was nicknamed the Velvet Hammer during his time as chief judge in Florida, so called because he had the soft ease of velvet in the court room, but also served justice hard like a hammer. In this book, co-written with Amy Mitchell, he talks about his varied life experiences, from growing …
Continue reading The Velvet Hammer by Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr & Amy Mitchell
Conrad the talking calico cat is back, with Lulu, the retired detective. This time, they've taken their canal boat home up to Oxford, for a friend's birthday party in their country mansion, but plans go awry. On arrival, they find an art robbery and a murder have taken place, and they are out of party …
Continue reading The Cat Who Solved Three Murders by LT Shearer
After almost 20 books in the Roy Grace series by Peter James, we finally find answers to the question of what happened to our main characters first wife Sandy... At the start of this series, Roy Grace has the shadow of his missing wife Sandy hanging over him, which was such a great background mystery …
Continue reading They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy’s Story by Pater James
Three people remain broken and inextricably linked by a tragedy in the past that threatens to rise to the surface. Cale has changed his name and sells real estate in Hawaii, drinking to forget the past. His brother Ambrose remains in their childhood home, trying to be a good father, but always guarding their dark …
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