When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among … Continue reading Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan
Kitty Hawk and the Hunt for Hemingway’s Ghost is the exciting second installment in a new series of adventure mystery stories that are one part travel, one part history and five parts adventure. This second book in the series continues … Continue reading Kitty Hawk and the Hunt for Hemingway’s Ghost by Iain Reading
Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan does not wish to linger on the grisly scene before her eyes. Two mutilated corpses. In a church. In Clontarf. Her profiling background screams one fact: this is just the beginning of a sickening message. … Continue reading The Killer in Me by Olivia Kiernan
When Colin Thurcroft decided to expand his hiking gear business with a retail outlet, the derelict shop close to the centre of his home town seemed ideal. But something truly bizarre happened there nearly forty years ago, and it has … Continue reading Area 62 by Michael R. Martin
A potent, powerful and timely thriller about migrants, drug lords and gang warfare set on the US/Mexican border by prize-winning novelist, Marcus Sedgwick. Anapra is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the Mexican city of Juarez – twenty metres outside … Continue reading Saint Death by Marcus Sedgwick
When celebrity astronomer Edwin Bubble is found battered to death by his own telescope, the morning after a ‘Blood Moon’ lunar eclipse, Detective Inspector Clinton Trump crashes onto the scene like a megaton meteorite who’s late for a date with … Continue reading The Blood Moon of Doom by Paul Mathews
Andorra Pett has left the Oort Cloud Café; she’s back on Mars, a place she vowed she’d never visit again. She’s gone back for her friend Maisie’s funeral. Everyone thinks it was suicide but the more she learns, the less … Continue reading Andorra Pett on Mars by Richard Dee
He’s watching… He’s waiting… Who’s next? Buried in a woodland grave are a mother and her child. One is alive. One is dead. DC ‘Charlie’ Stafford is assigned by her boss, DI Geoffrey Hunter to assist with the missing persons … Continue reading Mummy’s Favourite by Sarah Flint
The last person who called me Sweetpea ended up dead… I haven’t killed anyone for three years, and I thought that when it happened again I’d feel bad. Like an alcoholic taking a sip of whiskey. But no. Nothing. I … Continue reading Sweetpea by C.J. Skuse
Single-mother bounty hunter Lori Anderson has finally got her family back together, but her new-found happiness is shattered when she’s snatched by the Miami Mob – and they want her dead. Rather than a bullet, they offer her a job: … Continue reading Deep Dirty Truth by Steph Broadribb
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