The Crime Warp

  Wow! I was not expecting such a unique read when I agreed to be on the blog tour for Future Perfect by Felicia Yap. (Thanks to Rachel's Random Resources, Netgalley and Wildfire Books for inviting me to participate)  Future Perfect , as the title suggests is set in the future and it blows your mind. Before I continue with my review, here's the blurb ... Future Perfect What if today was your last day... A bomb has exploded during a fashion show, killing a beautiful model on the catwalk. The murderer is still at large... and he may strike again. Yet this is the least of Police Commissioner Christian Verger's worries. His fiancée Viola has left him. He has to keep his tumultuous past a secret. To make things worse, his voice assistant Alexa is 99.74% sure he will die tomorrow. Moving from snowy 1980s Montana to chic 1990s Manhattan to a drone-filled 2030s Britain, FUTURE PERFECT is an electrifying race to solve a murder before it's too late. Yet it is also a love story,...

I came across David Young’s first novel Stasi Child in 2015 and was immediately captivated by the idea of crime in East Germany, particularly the scenario of the first novel.  I’ve waited eagerly for the follow up and it’s out at last.

I’ve read all of The Coroner series by M R Hall and been waiting for his newest book A Life to Kill for ages.   It was well worth the wait! So what’s it about? An army platoon in Shalan-Gar, Helmand is close to going home after a punishing tour where comrades have been killed in action.   On the final night, “Skippy” Lyons inexplicably vanishes from their fortified and closely guarded compound.   Information comes their way that he’s being held by local Taliban who want a ransom for his release.   The negotiations turn out to be a disastrous trap for the platoon and after a fierce firefight, Green is dead, Roberts’ legs have been blown off, Carter has a severe head would and Lyons is still missing. Once the company is back at Highcliffe camp in the UK, Jenny Cooper is asked to lead the inquest into Green’s death, which as you can imagine will have lots of twists and turns and a shocking ending when the truth is finally exposed.

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.

P olice at the station and they don’t look friendly , is the title of the sixth novel in the Sean Duffy series, written by Adrian McKinty.  It’s a bleak start to the novel, as Duffy is being led through a forest by three masked gunmen.  It’s not just a beating this time, Duffy’s ben told he must dig his own grave and if he co-operates and doesn’t make a fuss, they’ll be kind enough to kill him cleanly.  The book then switches back in time to a cosy family scene, with Duffy, his girlfriend Beth, their infant daughter Emma and Duffy’s parents.  A sweet, touching scene, until Duffy is called away to investigate the murder of a local drug dealer, shot to death with a crossbow. When Duffy arrives at the crime scene the novel descends into what seems like a slapstick farce, with an unguarded corpse on the drive about to be nibbled by a stray goat, the trusty Sergeant McCrabban in hospital after being stabbed with a fork and an ice cream van driver who...

In 2004, Lena Fisher was sent to prison for murdering her husband Andrew. An easy, open and shut case, after all, she even confessed to the murder.  Fast forward to 2016, a year after her release from prison and a man is found murdered – his body in an abandoned mortuary at Hale’s End.  DI Francis Sadler recognises the body as someone he went to school with.  That’s not as helpful as it sounds, because the dead man is undoubtedly Andrew Fisher, the man supposedly murdered in 2004! The detective team, Sadler, Palmer and Childs challenges are – find out who the dead man was that they all thought was Andrew Fisher in 2004; work out where the real Andrew Fisher has been since 2004 and most of all answer the key question – why did Lena Fisher confess to murdering someone who wasn’t her husband, but she claimed was?  The location of Fisher’s Body, Hale’s End tells them the answer lies somewhere in the past – Sadler and the team just have to find out what ...