THE MISSTERY
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Book reviews of mysteries, thrillers, police procedurals, coming of age tales and historical fiction. Novels & fiction.
THE MISSTERY
5y ago
The butchered body of a professor is found in a private office of Exeter University. It is the first in a spate of horrific murders that shakes the city to its core. Who would target a seemingly innocent man, and why? DS Imogen Grey and DS Adrian Miles turn to his students for answers, but their ..read more
THE MISSTERY
5y ago
All Anna wants is to be able to sleep. But crushing insomnia, terrifying night terrors and memories of that terrible night are making it impossible. If only she didn’t feel so guilty… To escape her past, Anna takes a job at a hotel on the remote Scottish island of Rum, but when seven guests join her ..read more
THE MISSTERY
5y ago
Stephen Berry is about to jump off a bridge until a suicide prevention counsellor stops him. A week later, Stephen is dead. Found at the bottom of a cliff, DI Luc Callanach and DCI Ava Turner are drafted in to investigate whether he jumped or whether he was pushed… As they dig deeper, more would-be suicides ..read more
THE MISSTERY
5y ago
Hello lovelies! How are you? I’m writing this post to announce that I’m taking a break from blogging. I will spend almost a month traveling across the US, so I won’t have time to check out blogs or write posts… maybe even reading (I’ll try, though!) I’m taking the following days off to rest, organize ..read more
THE MISSTERY
5y ago
London, 1927… Lady Evelyn Carlisle has barely arrived in London when familial duty calls her away again. Her cousin Gemma is desperate for help with her ailing mother before her imminent wedding, which Evelyn knew nothing about! Aunt Agnes in tow, she journeys to Scotland, expecting to find Malmo Manor in turmoil. To her surprise ..read more
THE MISSTERY
5y ago
A man is shot dead in his own home, and his pregnant wife, Evie, is found with the gun in her hands. Detective D.D. Warren instantly recognises her. Sixteen years ago, Evie also shot her own father. That killing was ruled an accident. D.D. doesn’t believe in coincidences. But this case isn’t as open and shut as ..read more
THE MISSTERY
5y ago
On the fourth floor of Chaucer House, two teenagers are found chained to a radiator. The boy is dead but the girl is alive. For Detective Kim Stone every detail of the scene mirrors her own terrifying experience with her brother Mikey, when they lived in the same tower block thirty years ago. When the ..read more
THE MISSTERY
5y ago
On a hot, humid July morning, sixteen-year-old Cissy Pickering calmly and deliberately shoots her father in the back. To their Mississippi community, the death of well-regarded attorney Richard Pickering is a fascinating scandal. To Cissy’s distraught mother, Caroline, it’s an unforgivable crime. But in Cissy’s troubled mind, killing her father was the only way she knew ..read more
THE MISSTERY
5y ago
Good morning and welcome to the new mini-review post! Today I’m featuring two crime books: one legal and one police procedural which I quite enjoyed. I would recommend both to genre fans. A Criminal Defense by William L. Myers Jr As soon as I started reading this book I realized it was like reading a ..read more
THE MISSTERY
6y ago
Release: 2018 Publisher: Head of Zeus Genre: Mystery & Thriller ☼ 1930, London An enigmatic heiress, a family secret and the thirst for justice A headless corpse; an apparent suicide in a locked room; a man burned alive during an illusionist’s show in front of thousands of people. Scotland Yard is baffled by the sequence of ..read more