I deliberated between 3 and 4 stars for this book, I am settling on 3 stars in the end (I will explain why). So, I am a huge crime fiction reader, it's my most read genre, I have no secrets around that, and as the years go on I find I am getting fussier with this genre, largely due to some specta...
I’d dressed carefully for the event, in trousers and a high-necked top, in spite of the heat. Experience had taught me that revealing even an inch of flesh could be disastrous. Burns had given his team a three-line whip, so the incident room was packed, but the only smile I could see belonged to ...
He pulls on sterile gloves then unlocks the door with keys stolen from her bag. She’s conscious now, lying exactly where he left her, gagged and bound on the living-room floor, terror visible in her eyes. He loosens her gag to let her breathe more easily. ‘Why are you doing this?’ she splutters. ...
The man hasn’t been back since he took her out in the van, and the box has felt smaller since then, stale air smothering her. ‘Do you know what day it is, Ella?’ the man asks when he unlocks the door. ‘I can’t remember.’ ‘Christmas Eve, silly girl.’ The torchlight settles on her face and she stre...
I groped on the bedside table for my phone, but no email had arrived yet from Christine, Whitehall clearly still unwilling to comply. Mikey was in his room, staring down at the garden, his small face gaunter than before. The wind had dropped overnight, not a branch stirring, as if the trees were ...