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June 25, 2020

Westwind by Ian Rankin

Paperback review by Rob Spence It comes as a bit of a shock to realise that Ian Rankin has now published well over thirty…

June 27, 2019

Cari Mora by Thomas Harris

 Review by Basil Ransome-Davies The day my review copy of Cari Mora arrived I spent the afternoon strolling on Morecambe’s splendid promenade. The view…

To kill the truth sam bourne
February 26, 2019

To Kill the Truth by Sam Bourne

Review by Rob Spence We live in an age of fake news, propagated by politicians, celebrities and media organisations. Perhaps we always have –…

June 5, 2018

Star of the North by D B John

Reviewed by Annabel Very few westerners get to visit North Korea, and DB John is one of them – he’s seen the public face…

March 13, 2018

The Extremist by Nadia Dalbuono

Review by Marina Sofia You might be forgiven for expecting this book set in Italy to be translated from Italian, given the Italian sounding…

The End of the Web by George Sims
August 31, 2017

The End of the Web by George Sims

Reviewed by Harriet No, the title doesn’t refer to a predicted end of the internet. This is a 1976 novel, written before such things…

June 8, 2017

Running Blind by Desmond Bagley

Review by Annabel I’m delighted that the vogue for republishing the best thrillers from the 1960s onwards as exemplified by the books of Lionel…

October 25, 2016

The Girl in Green by Derek D. Miller

Reviewed by Gill Davies In the past, I have hesitated to read a novel that uses dreadful contemporary events as its plot and thematic…

October 13, 2016

Nothing Short of Dying by Erik Storey

Reviewed by Basil Ransome-Davies Erik Storey’s début novel, which bids to inaugurate a series, comes garlanded with approving quotes from established authors Lee Child…

The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson
August 18, 2016

The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson

Reviewed by Harriet Is there no end to these amazing novelists who appeared to have sunk without trace and are now being revived for…

Passage of Arms
August 13, 2016

Passage of Arms by Eric Ambler

Reviewed by Harriet This is the third of Eric Ambler’s newly reissued novels I have read in the past few months, the other two…

July 7, 2016

A Kind of Anger by Eric Ambler

Reviewed by Harriet ‘Unquestionably the best thriller writer ever’, says Graham Greene on the cover of this new British Library Crime Classics title, one…

April 26, 2016

The Light of Day by Eric Ambler

Reviewed by Annabel Ambler was one of the great British thriller writers and his works are ripe for reappraisal. They had gradually become out…

April 12, 2016

Fever City by Tim Baker

Reviewed by Annabel I was only three when JFK was assassinated, remaining blissfully unaware of the events that etched themselves into the psyches of…

January 29, 2016

The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle

Reviewed by Gill Davies This is Nicholas Searle’s first novel. He apparently began it while a student of the on-line Curtis Brown Creative Writing…

October 29, 2015

The Dark Inside by Rod Reynolds

Reviewed by Gill Davies This is the first novel by Rod Reynolds, a British author who is working comfortably within the conventions and settings…

October 28, 2015

The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagerkrantz

Reviewed by Harriet Reading continuations of series by celebrated dead authors is always going to be a bit of a gamble. I’ve had some…

April 28, 2015

The Lady from Zagreb by Philip Kerr

Reviewed by Linda Boa Well, after a short break, during which the ubiquitous Philip Kerr wrote Research and Prayer, Bernie Gunther has returned by popular demand for his…

April 9, 2015

Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson

Reviewed by Harriet I must admit that I’d never heard of Lionel Davidson before this novel came my way. I now know him to…

January 27, 2015

Spy Out the Land by Jeremy Duns

Reviewed by Rob Spence Don’t read this book. Don’t, that is, unless you have read Jeremy Duns’s previous three Paul Dark spy thrillers, because…

January 23, 2015

Gray Mountain by John Grisham

Reviewed by Harriet I first discovered the novels of John Grisham over a decade ago, and had a terrific splurge, which I remember enjoying…

January 19, 2015

Runaway by Peter May

Reviewed by Harriet I left a note for my folks on my pillow. I can’t remember now exactly what it was I wrote. Something…

October 9, 2014

The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson

Written by Liam Roberts After an engrossing and thrilling first chapter, readers may expect a zipping crime novel full of action and intrigue, which The…

April 18, 2014

An Officer and A Spy by Robert Harris

Reviewed by Falaise Robert Harris’ An Officer and A Spy is a tour de force of historical fiction, an account of what Harris himself has described…

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