Promise Me, by Harlen Coben (Orion, $24.99): When Myron Bolitar promises his best friend’s teenage daughter that he is the one person she can call any time, any place to ask for help, he never imagines it will be a promise he…
Category: Mysteries & Thrillers
Second in series as fun as the first
Motor Mouth, by Janet Evanovich (HarperCollins, $34.99): Alexandra Barnaby (better known to her friends as Barney) and race-car driver Sam Hooker are back in a new novel that follows on from the best-selling Metro Girl. Barney is now Sam’s raceday spotter and during…
Lots of surprises in this cracking read
Sharp Objects By Gillian Flynn (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, $36.99) When two young girls are abducted and killed, reporter Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to cover the case. The daughter of one of the richest families in the…
Same again but I suppose it works
No Place Like Home, by Mary Higgins Clark (HarperCollins, $21.99): Author Mary Higgins Clark has added yet another bestseller to her seemingly endless list with this story about, once again, a secret from the past that doesn’t want to stay in…
Chilling psychological thriller
Immoral, by Brian Freeman (Headline, $24.99): In an ugly case of deja vu, Lieutenant Jonathan Stride must deal with the disappearance of a beautiful teenager in Duluth, Minnesota. She’s gone without a trace: the second disappearance in a year. The two…
Stephen Leather delivers again
Cold Kill, by Stephen Leather (Hachette Livre, $36.99): What’s even deadlier than terrorists? According to this book, it’s the men who’ve got them in their sights. Cold Kill kicks off with the Asian Boxing Day tsunami and the action just…