Thriller suggestions for the holidays



Take Me In by Sabine Durrant
From the author of Lie With Me another cracking thriller. If you read this on summer holiday, on the beach and if you have kids, watch them. Carefully. Tessa and Marcus are on holiday with their only son and this boy nearly drowns in the sea. He is rescued by a stranger, a disconcerting man who uses their gratitude to worm his way into their lives. But what does he want, what does he expect? The sense of foreboding is not misplaced. The best psychological thrillers involve misdirection and menace and here you get it in spades.
Published in hardback, eBook and audio book by Mulholland Books in 2018.



How it Happened by Michael Koryta
This is where police procedural meets cutting edge gritty hard core. FBI agent Rob Barrett interviews a drug addicted single mother with the reputation of being a liar and trouble maker who confesses to involvement in a series of gruesome murders. Apart from Barrett no one believes her, especially when they dredge the pond where she claims they would discover the bodies, but none are found. How is Barrett going to prove that she told the truth?  He gets called away to another case, a more promising one, but the confession of Kim Crepeaux just won’t leave him alone.
Published in hardback by Hodder & Stoughton in 2018.


Cold Bones by David Mark
Another DS McAvoy novel to keep you company on your flight perhaps. Better not one to Iceland though, because that is partly where this story involving an old secret and some brutal killings take place. There and Hull, two cold and bleak places in the winter months at least, connected by the fishing industry. I thought I’d read about pretty much every way to find a corpse, but this is a new one on me. Encased in ice in a bath tub. Will McAvoy be able to unravel this mystery while coping with yet more physical and psychologically bruising encounters? I hope he bounces back soon, this series has not yet run its course, not by a long shot!
Published in hardback and eBook by Mulholland Books in 2018.

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