The Crime Warp

Set in the John Wayne territory of Orange County Detective Schmidt (Schmitty)  fed up being sidelined in his harbour patrol job teams up with a sexy PI as a favour to Property Developer Mac Whelan to find his missing son Jimmy.  

Lisa Cutts is the daughter of a former Metropolitan Police officer and obtained her first degree in Law, working in a number of jobs in London and around the South East area, before becoming a police officer herself in 1996. She later achieved a second degree in Applied Criminal Investigation. She balances working full- time for Kent Police with writing crime fiction.

The Venus Trap is a tense psychological thriller about a  woman held captive in her own home by a psychopathic acquaintance from her past.  Initially I wondered, having enjoyed Tammy Cohen’s Christmas is for Dying , which has a similar theme, not so long ago, if The Venus Trap could sustain such a tense and close relationship between captor and captive for an entire book – Within pages my worries were put to bed.  From the start Voss delivers an intense   and well written   story that had my emotions and sympathies all over the place – The Venus Trap is  Highly Recommended by me

Set between the racially segregated Mississppi of the1960's and the current time Natchez Burning is a powerful novel- in fact, in my opinion it is one of the best crime fiction explorations of the racial hatred of that part of America's history. 

The Summer of Ghosts is the second in the Tom Bevans series, the first being The Last Winter of Dani Lancing .  Don’t worry if you’ve not read the first, I hadn’t, and it didn’t get in the way of the story. 

This collection of collaborative short stories is crime fiction at its’ most revolutionary - Our favourite crime detectives Face Off against each other in a unique collection of 11 short stories written by 23 of the world’s best known crime fiction writer’s. This collection stands out, not only because of the excellent  and inventive stories but because of the skilful editing by David Baldacci.  

It's unseasonably hot in Maine in October and the heat is getting to everyone.  When game warden Mike Bowditch is called out to investigate the macabre, senseless slaughter of ten moose on the estate of the wealthy Elizabeth morse who despite being an animal rights activist has managed to put the backs  of many of her human animal neighbours right up.