Monthly Archives: July 2019
HUSH HUSH – (Detective Harriet Blue, #4) Candice Fox & James Patterson
Harriet Blue is back. Well, after being sprung from prison as Inmate 3329 by the man who put her there, Deputy Commissioner, Joe Woods, she’s back. Her mission, and the reason she is free, is to find Woods’ daughter and … Continue reading
SECRET SERVICE – Tom Bradby
Surely the best spy novel I have read in years. How can Kate Henderson take the intel seriously that the British Prime Minister has cancer, and that one of the contenders to replace him has Russian connections? And that there … Continue reading
BIG SKY – Kate Atkinson
It is Kate Atkinson’s brilliant writing that makes this almost thriller. Her characters are excellently individual, although, for the purist there may be too many of them. And Jackson Brodie, private detective, ex-policeman, whom Atkinson fans will have fondly met … Continue reading
BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT- Gary Bell QC & Scott Kershaw
A huge, involved fraud case suggests that Elliot Rook, QC, a barrister with Miller & Stubbs, needs some help as he gets further and further mired down in the paperwork, Sheer audacity gets young, hungry, mixed-race Zara Barnes the job. … Continue reading
NEON PREY – John Sandford
Lucas Davenport # 27. It is jaw-droppingly surprising, when the US Marshalls begin to search Clayton Deese’s home and yard, to find not one body buried there, but several. Deese, a contract killer, takes his targets home and fillets them … Continue reading
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