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Category Archives: Whodunnit
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
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Tagged SECRET SERVICE - spy thriller, Spy thriller, Tom Bradby - author
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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
UNDER THE ICE – Rachael Blok
Jenny is a new mother; exhausted, tearful, brittle. She finds herself sleep-walking, barefooted in the snow, down to the nearby lake which seems to have a hold on her. Her visions include shadowy figures and threatening whispers. Inexplicably, barely remembered … Continue reading
DOMINO ISLAND – Desmond Bagley
A gem of a thriller from a long-dead author’s stored archives, and it is a cracker. Desmond Bagley’s tight adventure novels were sometimes spoiled for me by his inclusion of Land Rovers cc the sixties where his gaffs about them … Continue reading
ONE MORE LIE – Amy Lloyd
If one had to sum up this chilling tale of psychological suspense, I would use the word uncomfortable. With a new name and an ankle monitor, Charlotte, the adult, is released back into the world. Try as she might, she … Continue reading
THE POTENTIAL – David A. Davies
Look no further if you are after a thriller of character depth, plot twists and factual settings. In Bonn, Chris Morehouse, a UK citizen working as a chauffeur for the CIA, is driving the US Ambassador when an attack is … Continue reading
WINTER SISTERS – Robin Oliveira
Mary Sutter #2. When the 1879 blizzard that devastates Albany, New York, finally releases its killer grip, close family friends, husband and wife, of Dr Mary Sutter and her physician husband, have both lost their lives. But more troubling is … Continue reading
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Tagged MY Name is Mary Sutter, Robin Oliveira, Winter Sisters
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RUN AWAY – Harlan Coben
Your eldest daughter has run away; she does not want to be found. Then you see her in a park, busking. You hardly recognise her, so wasted, so shrunken and filthy is she; but you can’t help yourself reaching out … Continue reading
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Tagged Harlan Coben - author, RUN AWAY - thriller
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NEVER TELL – Lisa Gardner
Excellent! A thriller, a whodunnit until the last moment with more twists than a corkscrew. This is my first Lisa Gardner, but wow! Where has she been all my reading life? She has 20 previous novels to her name. Her … Continue reading
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Tagged DD Warren Series, Lisa Gardner - author, Never Tell
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