Category: thriller
+ Catholic Church, crime fiction, family, female friendship, fiction, fifties, friendship, illegitimacy, Ireland, loss, love, motherhood, murder, police drama, rape, religion, review, serial killer, sisters, sixties, thriller
Blood Mothers by Gaye Maguire
Some debts can only be paid in blood. A rich socialite is found hacked to death in her Dublin home. It’s the beginning of a killing spree that leaves five apparently unconnected people brutally slain. Kate Hamilton, a brilliant and ambitious detective sergeant, is assigned to the case and soon uncovers the connection between the victims – they were all involved in an illegal adoption … Read More Blood Mothers by Gaye Maguire
+ crime fiction, Detective novel, fiction, friends, friendship, jealousy, kidnapping, marriage, murder, murder mystery, police drama, police procedural, review, thriller
No More Lies by Rachel Abbott
It would be unfair to blame the woman I met tonight for turning my life upside down. She didn’t. It was already upside down. I just didn’t know it. Recently life has been good for Mallory Hansen: a great job, a lovely home, and a wonderful man, Nathan, to share it with. But now she must ask herself: is it all built on lies? A terrible accusation has … Read More No More Lies by Rachel Abbott
+ brothers, crime fiction, Detective novel, Edinburgh, fiction, kidnapping, murder, police corruption, police drama, police procedural, prostitution, psychopath, revenge, review, Scotland, thriller, trafficking
Hunter’s Force (The Edinburgh Crime Mysteries #3) by Val Penny
Hunter by name – Hunter by nature. Can DI Hunter Wilson keep Edinburgh safe when he is the hunted? Detective Inspector Hunter Wilson is woken in the early hours of the morning by a call from his son. Cameron’s flatmate has been murdered. Why would anybody want to kill a young woman recently arrived in the city? #HuntersForce @valeriepenny @SpellBoundBks @Zooloo’s Book Tours @zooloo2008 #ZooloosBookTours Hunter must call in … Read More Hunter’s Force (The Edinburgh Crime Mysteries #3) by Val Penny
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The Skull Keeper by Mariëtte Whitcomb Cover Reveal
Best friends on social media, Allysa and Morgan share a love of three things: thriller novels, true crime, and keeping secrets from each other. As soon as Allysa asks Morgan to be her plus one at a funeral, Morgan jumps on the first available flight. Burying the dead might unearth the truth about what happened to Allysa’s brother twenty years earlier. She’s never believed … Read More The Skull Keeper by Mariëtte Whitcomb Cover Reveal
+ crime fiction, female friendship, fiction, lies, marriage, murder, review, secrets, serial killer, thriller, writer
Trust Only Me by McGarvey Black
From her home office in rural Connecticut, self-published thriller author Jillian Samuels dreams of writing a bestseller. Her tall, dark and handsome chef husband Teddy, and her BFF, Natalie, a glamorous PR woman always in six-inch heels, cheer Jillian on when her new book, The Soul Collector, is accepted by a New York agent. By night, she writes about serial killers. But then her … Read More Trust Only Me by McGarvey Black
The Forcing by Paul E. Hardisty
Civilisation is collapsing… Frustrated and angry after years of denial and inaction, in a last-ditch attempt to stave off disaster, a government of youth has taken power in North America, and a policy of institutionalised ageism has been introduced. All those older than the prescribed age are deemed responsible for the current state of the world, and are to be ‘relocated’, their property and … Read More The Forcing by Paul E. Hardisty
+ art, crime fiction, dark humour, Detective novel, fiction, jealousy, murder, murder mystery, obsession, police drama, review, thriller
The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell
You know how they live. This is how they die. THE NIGHT BEFORE Rupert’s 30th is a black tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald’s – catered with cocaine and Veuve Clicquot. THE MORNING AFTER His girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath. All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally. This investigation is going to be about Classics degrees and aristocrats, Instagram influencers and … Read More The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell
+ adventure, climate fiction, crime fiction, friendship, grief, journalist, lies, loss, love, marriage, murder, mystery, revenge, review, serial killer, thriller
Green Shoots by Ben Westwood
OUT OF THEIR ASHES, GREEN SHOOTS WILL GROW The Constant Gardener meets Dexter – Green Shoots is a gripping conspiracy thriller with an ecological heart. Brought back from the brink of suicide by a mysterious phone call, grieving journalist John Adamson is on a quest for the truth about his wife Christina’s death in South America. #GreenShoots @benwestwood @CranthorpeBooks @Zooloo’s Book Tours @zooloo2008 #ZooloosBookTours #blogtour A private … Read More Green Shoots by Ben Westwood
+ abuse, child abuse, childhood, family, fiction, kidnapping, loneliness, obsession, relationships, review, thriller
So Pretty by Ronnie Turner
When Teddy Colne arrives in the small town of Rye, he believes he will be able to settle down and leave his past behind him. Little does he know that fear blisters through the streets like a fever. The locals tell him to stay away from an establishment known only as Berry & Vincent, that those who rub too closely to its proprietor risk … Read More So Pretty by Ronnie Turner
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My Top 8 Books of 2022 Part Four
Here are my favourite eight books of the final quarter of 2022. One of these will make it into my top four books of 2022 (I just couldn’t cut it down to three this year). The Parlour Game by Jennifer Renshaw This is the book I have been waiting for! A gothic tale of sinister goings-on, mysterious disappearances, hauntings and macabre artefacts with special powers. … Read More My Top 8 Books of 2022 Part Four
+ crime fiction, Detective novel, fiction, journalist, murder, murder mystery, police drama, psychopath, review, serial killer, thriller
Speaking Daggers by Lloyd Rees
There’s a killer on the loose on the streets of Swansea and they are leaving clues. Detective Inspector Gus Reid and his team have a gruesome murder on their hands but there are no suspects and no obvious motive. All they have to go on is a series of literary quotations that appear like graffiti on walls throughout the city. Can Gus’ daughter, an … Read More Speaking Daggers by Lloyd Rees
+ Belfast, crime fiction, eighties, fiction, friendship, Ireland, journalist, murder, obsession, review, serial killer, thriller, USA
The Wolf Is At Your Door by Simon Maltman
New York, 1987. Rory is a likeable career thief originally from war-torn Belfast, planning out his next big score. A serial killer is murdering women in the city. But no bodies are ever found; just missing girls and cryptic plaques left on benches in Central Park. #TheWolfIsAtYourDoor @simonmaltman @AestheticPress1 @Zooloo’s Book Tours @zooloo2008 #ZooloosBookTours #blogtour When the killer strikes too close to home, Rory becomes unhealthily obsessed … Read More The Wolf Is At Your Door by Simon Maltman
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