Monument to Murder by Mari Hannah Genre; Crime (police procedural) When skeletal remains are found beneath the fortified walls of an ancient castle on Northumberland’s rugged coastline, DCI Kate Daniels calls on a forensic anthropologist to help identify the corpse. Meanwhile, newly widowed prison psychologist Emily McCann finds herself drawn into the fantasy of convicted […]
Cover Questions – An Unfamiliar Murder by Jane Isaac
Today I welcome Jane Isaac to the blog. Jane is a crime writer and has always been fascinated by what happens when extraordinary events touch the lives of ordinary people. For the most part, lives are relatively untouched by law enforcement. But she asks what happens if we are forced into such a situation? How […]
Recently Read – In Bitter Chill by Sarah Ward
In Bitter Chill by Sarah Ward Genre; Crime In 1978, a small town in Derbyshire, England is traumatised by the kidnapping of two young schoolgirls. One girl, Rachel, is later found unharmed but unable to remember anything except that her abductor was a woman. Over thirty years later the mother of the still missing Sophie […]
Shallow Waters – Chapter 3
You can find the previous chapters of Shallow Waters Here. 3 Someone had made an attempt to conceal the girl. Her arms were down by her sides and her knees bent up to her chest, jammed between the bricks of the external wall of the restaurant and the huge frigid metal containers. The bin was […]
Recently Read – Before It's Too Late by Jane Isaac
I know this month I’m supposed to be reading NetGalley books only but Jane asked me for a quote for her book so I slipped this one in. And that’s a disclosure for this novel… Before It’s Too Late by Jane Isaac Genre: Crime I concentrated hard, desperately listening for something familiar, the sound of […]
Recently Read – Before It’s Too Late by Jane Isaac
I know this month I’m supposed to be reading NetGalley books only but Jane asked me for a quote for her book so I slipped this one in. And that’s a disclosure for this novel… Before It’s Too Late by Jane Isaac Genre: Crime I concentrated hard, desperately listening for something familiar, the sound of […]