The Crime Warp

Clue: read tomorrow's review February 1st 2017!

Welcome to the blog tour for Her Every Fear , the latest book by Peter Swanson. My first Peter Swanson novel was The Kind Worth Killing – a simply superb book that I couldn’t put down.   Last year I read Swanson’s first novel The Girl With a Clock for a Heart , thinking it wouldn’t be as good – it was!   So, when I saw last July that there would be a new Swanson novel in 2017, I wondered whether Her Every Fear would be a Swanson hat trick? You guessed it, I just couldn’t wait to find out.

Set in New Orleans, detective Micki Dare is teamed with 'Light Keeper', Zach Harris in this police procedural/paranormal thriller.  

The Last One by Alexandra Oliva is basically Bear Ghrylls meets The Hunger Games in this apocalyptic psychological thriller told through flashback and current events... Astounding !

It's that time of year when after the excitement of Christmas things feel a bit flat.  Combine that with the dark nights and drab weather and January could be the worst month. However, don't despair because there are some brilliant crime drama to curl up and watch and the bonus is they all have strong female protagonists.

The ducking and diving of the psychological thriller is what makes them so compelling and Seeber's The Stepmother is no exception.  The notion of the mind being tormented sometimes to the point of insanity draws the reader in.  In this book the traditional concept of the evil stepmother is challenged as Jeanie, determined to create a blended family, begins her new life, putting her past firmly behind her.

Angela Marsons is rapidly becoming one of my favourite UK writers and with her fifth novel Blood Lines my enthusiasm shows no signs of abating.  Blood Lines is a fantastic book and one of the main pulls for me has to be the battle of wills between DI Kim Stone and her nemesis Dr Alexandra Thorne... a truly magnificent battle worthy of any Star Wars movie!!!