Crime-Fiction / Whodunnit?
This is a guest post by J. Kyle Turner. Please see the author’s links if you enjoyed this piece.
Dunstan Harrows sat in the near darkness of the groundskeeper’s cottage while the setting sun glared through the window behind him.
He often came here in the evening to shed the heat of the day while his callouses hardened and the mud dried to dirt under…
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Crime / Murder Mystery
A murder mystery on a closed off location, in this case a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, rarely fails to elicit our interest and The Guest List is no exception. The remoteness, the difficult accessibility by boat, the island’s past history, all come together to create an atmospheric backdrop for our characters who are all thoughtfully and carefully…
(more…)Crime Fiction / Murder Mystery
This is a guest post by A. J. Evley. Please see the author’s links if you enjoyed this piece.
The phone rings at twenty past eight while I’ve got my arms elbow deep in the washing up. I tap the loudspeaker with my driest finger.
“Marion Turner?”
“Speaking.”
“DC Dana Hartfield, Thames Valley cold case unit. Sorry to call so late…
(more…)Thriller
It feels almost sacrilege to give this book a score of 3 given how it spread like wildfire but here we are. Without any big spoilers, the story starts with the disappearance of Amy, the wife of Nick who soon falls under suspicion of her murder. As the story progresses we find out more of Amy and Nick’s past together and various twists and turns and revelations lead us to…
(more…)Thriller
I remember seeing this book everywhere a few years back.
At home, book in hand, I read what it was about and immediately thought that it would not make for my kind of reading. It sounded like it just wouldn’t be my thing. I like action, adventure, fast-paced escapism from anything everyday, but I turned to the first page to see and I’ll fairly say that it hooked me in from…