Crime novels that we’ve read, loved and would recommend to you if you popped into the bookshop.
Crime novels that we’ve read, loved and would recommend to you if you popped into the bookshop.
A Good Enough Mother
by Bev Thomas.
The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves. Today Ruth is preoccupied by her son Tom’s disappearance. So when a new patient arrives at the unit – a young man who looks shockingly like Tom – she is floored. As a therapist, Ruth knows exactly what she should do in the best interests of her client, but as a mother she makes a very different choice – a decision that will have profound consequences. A gripping and deeply intelligent psychological thriller.
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The Stone Circle
by Elly Griffiths.
DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters telling him to ‘go to the stone circle and rescue the innocent who is buried there’. He is shaken, not only because children are very much on his mind, with Michelle’s baby due to be born, but because although the letters are anonymous, they are somehow familiar. They read like the letters that first drew him into the case of The Crossing Places, and to Ruth. But the author of those letters is dead. Or are they?
The past is reaching out for Ruth and Nelson, and its grip is deadly.
The Devil's Dice
by Roz Watkins.
A lawyer is found dead in a Peak District cave, his face ribboned with scratches.
Amidst rumours of a local curse, DI Meg Dalton is convinced this is cold-blooded murder. There’s just one catch – chiselled into the cave wall above the body is an image of the grim reaper and the dead man’s initials, and it’s been there for over a century.
As Meg battles to solve the increasingly disturbing case, it’s clear someone knows her secrets. The murderer is playing games with Meg – and the dice are loaded…
Prague Spring
by Simon Mawer.
It seems that, for the first time, nothing is off limits behind the Iron Curtain. Yet the wheels of politics are grinding in the background. The Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev is making demands of Dubcek and the Red Army is massed on the borders.
How will the looming disaster affect those fragile lives caught up in the invasion?
Anatomy of a Scandal
by Sarah Vaughan.
Anatomy of a Scandal centres on a high-profile marriage that begins to unravel when the husband is accused of a terrible crime. Sophie is sure her husband, James, is innocent and desperately hopes to protect her precious family from the lies which might ruin them. Kate is the barrister who will prosecute the case – she is equally certain that James is guilty and determined he will pay for his crimes
Snap decisions can be dangerous… It was nearly an hour since the car had coughed and spluttered and jerked and rolled to a crunchy halt on the hard shoulder of the M5 motorway.That made it over half an hour since their mother had left them there to walk to an emergency phone.
Stay in the car. I won’t be long.
