I was looking for something to read over the Christmas holidays, narrowed it down to five then chose this one. It was all that I expected it to be – entertaining, dark and full of suspense, with a slithering of wit for good measure.Jessica Gold, an ordinary, if slightly odd, young woman is living...
What makes a model father murder his estranged wife, then go on TV pleading for her to come home? How does a devoted wife and mother walk into a beauty salon and shoot her ex-husband's pregnant lover in cold blood? No one ever knows what really goes on behind the closed doors of a marriage in f...
Taken with friends outside a café or bar, three faces smiling into the camera, arms around each other’s shoulders. I knew instantly which one was you. I’d kept tabs over the years, through Barbara. When a case affects you that much, you don’t let it go easily. Until that picture flashed up last n...
That restless feeling like he just wanted to be moving all the time never left him alone and he found himself pacing around his flat, unable to sit still. But the worst thing was the flashbacks. Usually he had a lie-in on a Saturday. But today he couldn’t stay in bed. The closer it got to the tim...
Over a hundred journalists and photographers jostled with police, court officials, grieving family members, and as many of the curious public as could squeeze their way in. A low-level hum of background chat permeated the entire proceedings. People snuck in drinks and brought out dog-eared novels...
The blanket definition – a member of an organised gang of criminals – is as wide-reaching as it is meaningless. Robin Hood was a gangster. The fourteen-year-old from the inner city estate with a flick knife in his back pocket – he’s a gangster too. Suicide bombers are gangsters, extended Shameles...
A modern, 86-room building, it’s more acclaimed for its accessible location just off the A6 Autoroute du Soleil than for its ambience. Tourists heading down through the centre of France might break up their journey there before heading on towards more fashionable holiday spots such as Provence or...