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Criminal Shorts

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Reviews so short its criminal

  • A Serial Killers Guide To Marriage

    A Serial Killers Guide To Marriage

    Less ’til death do us part, more let death keep us together Hazel and Fox are an ordinary married couple with a baby. Except for one small thing: they’re ex-serial killers. They had it all. An enviable London lifestyle, five-star travels, and plenty of bad men to kill. Not many power couples know how to Read more

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  • Remember You Will Die – Eden Robbins

    Haunting, delicate and highly thought promoting. This one will linger long after you close it. A search. A puzzle. Sixty protagonists—all of whom are dead. Told entirely through obituaries and ricocheting through time, Remember You Will Die is an innovative, genre-bending epic about the messy tapestry of human history and the threads that connect us, Read more

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  • Everyone Has Secrets – A J McDine

    You’re not kidding! Tragedy reveals all… How well do you really know the people you love the most? The leafy village of South Langley is the sort of place where someone might kill to live. The Griffiths family has the best home of all – the climbing ivy framing their double bay windows. You can Read more

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  • Nobody’s Hero – M W Craven

    Prepare for whiplash, breakneck thriller is serious understatement. The man who can’t feel fear is back, in a race against time to find the woman who knows a secret that could take down the world as we know it. When a shocking murder and abduction on the streets of London leads investigators to him, Ben Read more

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  • The Restaurant of Lost Recipes – Hisashi Kashiwai

    Reconstructing magical moments, resurrecting lost memories, lose yourself in bittersweet, touching, thought-provoking tales. Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner. Running this unique establishment are a father-daughter duo who serve more than just mouth-watering feasts. The pair have reinvented themselves as ‘food detectives’, offering a service that goes beyond traditional dining. Read more

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  • We Solve Murders – Richard Osman

    Write what you know… … like how a famous author writes, travels the globe by private jet, and helps a bodyguard turn detective. A brand new series.An iconic new detective team.And a thrilling new murder to solve . . . Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he Read more

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  • I Will Ruin You – Linwood Barclay

    This book will ruin your plans… Linwood Barclay doing what he does best, serving up a multi layered, domino effect, thrill ride. WHEN IT’S LIFE OR DEATH, WHO CAN YOU TRUST? Teacher Richard Boyle certainly never thought he would find himself talking down a former student intent on harming others, but when Mark LeDrew shows Read more

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  • The Work Retreat – J E Rowney

    Team building X Bear Grylls What could be worse than being stranded on an island?Try being there with six coworkers that you hate. Jonathan Jackson and Mark Thompson are the very definition of workplace toxicity. As their bickering and infighting threatens to destroy the company, the CEO has no alternative but to send them and Read more

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  • Profile K – Helen Fields

    Criminal Profiling for the A. I. Generation He’s going to kill you. He just doesn’t know it yet. Midnight Jones is an analyst trained to understand the human mind. But everything changes when, in the course of her work, she discovers Profile K’s file – because K stands for killer, and she knows that someone more Read more

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  • The Cracked Mirror – Chris Brookmyre

    A ‘cracking’ detective crossover, prepare for a book hangover because when realisation dawns it’s like a bucket of iced water being tipped over your head. FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVEL You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAPD homicide detective. Always in trouble with his captain, always losing partners, but Read more

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