Category: Crime Fiction
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Review – Midnight in Havana by Peggy Blair
paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Polygon Publication date: 01 July 2013 ISBN-9781846972348 First Line – “Ricky Ramirez’s parents stood on the other side of the door, speaking in hushed tones with the doctors.” “In beautiful, crumbling Old Havana, Canadian detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will help save his troubled marriage. He doesn’t yet…
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Review – The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: Penguin Publication date: 29 August 2013 ISBN13: 9781405911665 First Line – “It was all because of the Berlin Wall.” At the heart of The Husband’s Secret is a letter that’s not meant to be read “My darling Cecilia, if you’re reading this, then I’ve died…” Imagine that your husband wrote you…
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Review – The Complaints by Ian Rankin
Paperback: 452 pages Publisher: Orion Publication date: August 5 2010 ISBN13: 9781409103479 First Line – “There was a smattering of applause as Malcolm Fox entered the room.” Nobody likes The Complaints – they’re the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them their full title, but known colloquially as ‘the Dark…
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Review – Never Go Back by Robert Goddard
Paperback: 369 pages Publisher: Corgi ISBN-13: 978-0552152112 Publication Date: 6 Nov 2006 Synopsis taken from Amazon: For a group of ex-comrades, it is to be the reunion to end all reunions: a weekend in the Scottish castle where they were guinea pigs in a psychological experiment many years before. They haven’t seen each other since.…
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Davinci Code – Dan Brown
Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre, Jacques Saunière, has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the…