Category: police procedural
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Beneath The House of Sin (DCI Mike Saxby #1) by David Field
17 Cavendish Square. The home of the Pelican Club – a notorious upmarket brothel. Now the scene of a murder. DCI Mike Saxby is the officer in charge. He’s straight-shooting and by-the-book. There are no grey areas – Saxby is called in to investigate the death of the madame, Linda Clifford but the case throws up more questions than answers, as well as a … Read More Beneath The House of Sin (DCI Mike Saxby #1) by David Field
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The Night Watch (DS Max Craigie #3) by Neil Lancaster
He’ll watch you.A lawyer is found dead at sunrise on a lonely clifftop at Dunnet Head on the northernmost tip of Scotland. It was supposed to be his honeymoon, but now his wife will never see him again. He’ll hunt you. The case is linked to several mysterious deaths, including the murder of the lawyer’s last client – Scotland’s most notorious criminal… who had … Read More The Night Watch (DS Max Craigie #3) by Neil Lancaster
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Hunter’s Chase by Val Penny (Edinburgh Crime Mysteries #1)
Hunter by name – Hunter by nature: DI Hunter Wilson will not rest until Edinburgh is safe. Detective Inspector Hunter Wilson knows there is a new supply of cocaine flooding his city, and he needs to find the source, but his attention is transferred to murder when a corpse is discovered in the grounds of a golf course. #HuntersChase @valeriepenny @SpellBoundBks @Zooloo’s Book Tours @zooloo2008 #ZooloosBookTours Shortly after the post-mortem, Hunter witnesses a second murder, but … Read More Hunter’s Chase by Val Penny (Edinburgh Crime Mysteries #1)
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Broken Screams by Sally Rigby
Scream all you want, no one can hear you…. When an attempted murder is linked to a string of unsolved sexual attacks, Detective Chief Inspector Whitney Walker is incensed. All those women who still have sleepless nights because the man who terrorises their dreams is still on the loose. #BrokenScreams @SallyRigby4 #CavendishandWalker Zooloo’s Book Tours @zooloo2008 #ZooloosBookTours #blogtour Calling on forensic psychologist Dr Georgina Cavendish to help, they follow the clues … Read More Broken Screams by Sally Rigby
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The Girl In The Photo by Heidi Amsinck (A Jensen Thriller #2)
Not all little old ladies are so innocent … When ninety-year-old Irene Valborg is found brutally murdered in an affluent suburb of Copenhagen, her diamond necklace missing, it looks like a burglary gone wrong. When two more victims are attacked, the police lament a rise in violence against the elderly, but who is the young girl in the photo found by DI Henrik Jungersen … Read More The Girl In The Photo by Heidi Amsinck (A Jensen Thriller #2)
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The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson (Inspector Anjelica Henley #2)
Detective Anjelica Henley confronts a series of ritualistic murders in this heart-pounding thriller about race, power and the corrupt institutions that threaten us. When Detective Anjelica Henley is called to investigate the murder of a popular preacher in his own church, she discovers a second victim, tortured and tied to a bed in an upstairs room. He is alive, but barely, and his body … Read More The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson (Inspector Anjelica Henley #2)
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Night Shadows (Forbidden Iceland #3) by Eva Bjorg AEgisdottir translated by Victoria Cribb
The small community of Akranes is devastated when a young man dies in a mysterious house fire, and when Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case involving multiple suspects. What’s more, the dead man’s final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two. … Read More Night Shadows (Forbidden Iceland #3) by Eva Bjorg AEgisdottir translated by Victoria Cribb
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The Murder Book – A Tom Thorne Novel by Mark Billingham
Tom Thorne finally has it all. In Nicola Tanner and Phil Hendricks, Thorne has good friends by his side. His love life is newly reformed by a promising relationship and he is happy in the job he has devoted his life to. As he sets off hunting the woman responsible for a series of grisly murders, Thorne has no way of knowing that he … Read More The Murder Book – A Tom Thorne Novel by Mark Billingham
The Fields (Riley Fisher #1) by Erin Young
A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young’s The Fields is a dynamite debut—crime fiction at its very finest. Some things don’t stay buried. It starts with a body—a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted … Read More The Fields (Riley Fisher #1) by Erin Young
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No Less The Devil by Stuart McBride
‘We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.’ It’s been seventeen months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim and Operation Maypole is still no nearer to catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, the top brass are demanding results, but the investigation is sinking fast. Now isn’t the time to get distracted with other cases, but … Read More No Less The Devil by Stuart McBride
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The Woman Who Knew Faces (Karen Thorpe series #3) by Jane Badrock
One tenacious cop, one amazing artist. There’s a big operation underway and DS Karen Thorpe is feeling left out. Then she meets Emma, with the ability to memorise faces, and Karen’s re-energised with her potential crime-solving contribution. But she’s not the only one. #TheWomanWhoKnewFaces @janebadrock @QuestionPress @Zooloo’s Book Tours @zooloo2008 #ZooloosBookTours #blogtour A body turns up and Karen is finally called up to work with the Met. But Emma’s … Read More The Woman Who Knew Faces (Karen Thorpe series #3) by Jane Badrock
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My Top 8 Books of 2022 – part one
Here are my favourite eight books of the first quarter of 2022. So far I’ve read some good books. Tapestry by Beth Duke “We’re all part of a tapestry bigger than any of us can imagine, weaving in and out and creating a glorious picture. All of us from the beginning of time.” What a lovely thought. My brother had his DNA done and assuming … Read More My Top 8 Books of 2022 – part one
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