Silent Witness by Shirley Wells (A Dylan Scott Mystery #3) Carina Press (March 2012) Ebook, 287 pages Mystery Silent Witness by Shirley Wells takes place around eight months after the events of Dead Silent, with Dylan being called back to the dreary Lancashire town of Dawson’s Clough once again. This time he has the impossible task of proving a man’s innocence, or even his guilt, after a jury found him guilty of murder. Carly Walsingham was found dead in a bath of her own blood with her carotid artery severed, and all the…
Dead Silent (A Dylan Scott Mystery #2) by Shirley Wells | Carina Press (Aug 2011) Ebook, 254 pages | Mystery Dead Silent by Shirley Wells is the follow-up to Presumed Dead, in which Dylan Scott finds himself called back to the Lancashire town of Dawson’s Clough – a place he never thought he’d see again. This time the private investigator has been called upon to solve another disappearance case, that of Samantha Hunt. Sam was a bright and bubbly young woman with her whole life ahead of her, until she failed to…
HYSTERIA by Megan Miranda PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Publishing RELEASE DATE: 14th February 2013 FORMAT: Ebook, 272 pages GENRE: Mystery, Young Adult Mallory’s life is falling apart. Her boyfriend was stabbed. He bled to death in her kitchen. Mallory was the one who stabbed him. But she can’t remember what happened that night. She only remembers the fear… When Mallory’s parents send her away to a boarding school, she thinks she can escape the gossip and the threats. But someone, or something, has followed her. There’s the hand that touches her shoulder when…
PRESUMED DEAD (A Dylan Scott Mystery #1) by Shirley Wells PUBLISHER: Carina Press RELEASE DATE: 26th July 2010 FORMAT: Paperback, 364 pages GENRE: Mystery Dylan Scott has problems. Dismissed in disgrace from the police force for assaulting a suspect, he has no job, his wife has thrown him out and-worse luck-his mother has moved in. So when Holly Champion begs him to investigate the disappearance of her mother thirteen years ago, he can’t say no, even though it means taking up residence in the dreary Lancashire town of Dawson’s Clough…
MURDER TAKES THE CAKE (Daphne Martin Cake Mystery #1) by Gayle Trent PUBLISHER: Gallery Books RELEASE DATE: 29th Mar 2011 FORMAT: Paperback, 265 pages GENRE: Mystery A routine cake delivery becomes a culinary nightmare when a small-town baker discovers her first client’s dead body in this irresistible new mystery series. It’ll take more than a little sugar to convince folks Daphne Martin’s freshly baked spice cake was not to blame for the mysterious death of town gossip Yodel Watson. Getting her new cake decorating business, Daphne’s Delectable Cakes, off the…
THE LAST POLICEMAN (Last Policeman #1) by Ben H. Winters PUBLISHER: Quirk Books RELEASE DATE: 10th July 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 316 pages GENRE: Pre-Apocalyptic, Mystery What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway? Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact. The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed….
Title: Shakespeare’s Landlord (Lily Bard Mystery #1) Author: Charlaine Harris Publisher: Gollancz (UK) | Berkley Prime Crime (US) Publication Date: 2011 (UK) | 2005 (US) Format: Paperback, 224 pages Genre: Mystery Source: Review copy from publisher Reviewed by Carolyn Buy your copy from Amazon UK Kindle | UK Paperback | US Kindle | US Paperback OR The Book Depository SUMMARY: Disguising herself with short hair and baggy clothes, Lily Bard has started over in the sleepy town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, where – working as a cleaning lady – she can sweep away the…
Title: In the Dead of Winter: A Myrl Adler Norton Mystery Author: Abbey Pen Baker Publisher: The Irregular Special Press Publication Date: 2010 Paperback: 290 pages Genre: Mystery Source: Review Copy Guest Review by Sarah @FroggyTaylor RATING: 7/10 GOODREADS SUMMARY: Myrl Adler Norton was, by all accounts, one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. The daughter of the acclaimed opera singer Irene Adler, she was a respected professor of logic at Smith College as well as one of the most famous consulting detectives of all time. The…
Title: Cat in an Ultramarine Scheme (Midnight Louie Mystery #22) Author: Carole Nelson Douglas Publisher: Forge Books Publication Date: 3rd August 2010 Hardback: 365 pages Genre: Mystery Source: Review Copy Guest Review by Sarah @FroggyTaylor RATING: 6/10 SUMMARY: Temple Barr, publicist extraordinaire, is itching to bring off her most dangerous and exciting assignment, helping to launch an endeavor that many a Vegas showmen have dreamed of; a Las Vegas mob museum/casino. While city powers-that-be hem and haw over doing an official project on the subject, the Family Fontana plans to;…
Title: I Know What You Did Last Summer Author: Lois Duncan Publisher: Atom (UK) Publication Date: March 2011 (UK) | Originally published 1973 Paperback: 211 pages Genre: Thriller Young Adult Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 6/10 – good BOOK COVER SUMMARY: Last summer, four terrified friends made a desperate pact to conceal a shocking secret. But now, someone has learned the truth, and the horror is starting again. There is an unknown avenger out there who is stalking them in a deadly game. Will he stop at terror…
Title: Stitch Me Deadly (Embroidery Mystery #2) Author: Amanda Lee Publisher: Signet Books Publication Date: February 2011 ARC: 336 pages Genre: Mystery Source: Review Copy Guest Review by Jo RATING: 8/10 – brilliant, couldn’t put it down GOODREADS SUMMARY: Maggie Singer owns The Seven Year Stitch, an embroidery specialty shop in the small town of Tallulah Falls, Oregon. Trouble strikes when an elderly woman brings an antique piece of embroidery into the shop-and promptly dies of unnatural causes. Now Marcy has to stitch together clues to catch a crafty killer….
Wait for Dark (Alex Delillo #5) by Scott Frost Headline Publishing (April 2010) | Paperback, 384 pages Mystery This is the fifth book in the Alex Delillo mystery series. In Pasadena, due to the heat wave there has been a series of power blackouts. Lieutenant Alex Delillo and her squad expect that the power failures will bring robberies. But Alex receives a cryptic phone call, informing her the blackouts will bring something far worse than she expected. Someone is using the convenient cover of darkness for murder! Eek! The opening of…
Shakespeare’s Champion (Lily Bard #2) by Charlaine Harris Berkley (Dec 2006) | Paperback, 244 pages | Mystery Maybe if I took this step by step it wouldn’t be so bad? I glanced over at the still figure on the bench. No way to ease up to this. I’d just plunge right in. “Del Packard is here, and he got squashed,” I said. This is Charlaine Harris’ second Lily Bard book, but can be read as a standalone. The strength of the series builds with each one, with the complex and scarred…
DYING IN THE WOOL (Kate Shackleton Mystery #1) by Frances Brody PUBLISHER: Piatkus Books RELEASE DATE: Oct 2009 FORMAT: Paperback, 356 pages GENRE: Mystery Take one quiet Yorkshire village: Bridgestead is a peaceful spot: a babbling brook, rolling hills and a working mill at its heart. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens… Add a measure of mystery: Until the day that Master of the Mill, Joshua Brathwaite goes missing in dramatic circumstances, never to be heard of again. A sprinkling of scandal: Now Joshua’s daughter is getting married and wants one last…
THE SPELLMAN FILES (The Spellmans #1) by Lisa Lutz PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster UK RELEASE DATE: 2008 FORMAT: Paperback, 355 pages GENRE: Mystery Izzy Spellman is 28, single and works for Spellman Investigations, a family-run private detective agency. She might have a chequered past littered with romantic mistakes – but at least she’s good at her job. Invading people’s privacy comes naturally. To the whole family. To be a Spellman is to snoop on a Spellman; tail a Spellman; dig up dirt on, blackmail and wiretap a Spellman. But when Izzy’s…
