Category: Mysteries & Thrillers

An explosive thriller

Last Call, by James Grippando (HarperCollins, RRP $34.99): The friendship between Theo Knight and Jack Swyteck may seem an unlikely — Theo an ex-gang member and Jack a successful lawyer — but their loyalty to one another was set in concrete…

Not too taxing

Daddy’s Girl, by Lisa Scottoline (Macmillan, RRP $26.99): Law professor Natalie Greco takes on teaching a class at a local prison, which leads to her comfortable life being turned upside-down. A riot breaks out during her class and Nat rushes to…

Didn’t ring true

Bones to Ashes, by Kathy Reichs (Random House, $36.99): I’m a wee bit on the slow side sometimes when it comes to getting hooked on television programmes. Bones, a TV series about forensic anthropologist Temperance “Bones” Brennan — which was…

Fresh from start to finish

Exit Music, by Ian Rankin (Orion, RRP $36.99): Ian Rankin has produced another intriguing and compelling Inspector Rebus murder mystery in this book. The inspector is tying up loose ends as he nears retirement but a dead Russian poet changes his plans.…