Criminal Shorts

Reviews so short its criminal

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  • Mother Of The Bride – Samantha Hayes

    A long, slow start throws you headlong into rapid acceleration, to a sudden yet satisfying ending. My mother is obsessed with every detail of my wedding – controlling my dress, my ring, my happiness. But when the day finally comes, will she really let me go? Last year, my sister’s fiancé was murdered on his Read more


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  • How To Solve Your Own Murder – Kristen Perrin

    Where there’s a will, there’s a way. This time it just happens to be a Last Will & Testament. Great story, entertainingly executed FRANCES ALWAYS SAID SHE’D BE MURDERED…SHE WAS RIGHT. In 1965, when Frances Adams was seventeen, a fortune teller told her that one day she’d be murdered. Thus began a lifetime of trying Read more


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  • The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe M.B.E. – Claire Parkin

    Taking FRENEMIES to a whole new level. Toxicity and humour abound. Muriel, a former bestselling romantic novelist, and Ruth, a journalist, are best friends. Inseparable since they were little, they’ve shared everything; unable to be without each other, even after the most vicious of fights. Now fate has left them living together in a North Read more


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  • The Best Revenge – Gerald Seymour

    A meticulously woven web of spies… Even the most ardent of espionage fans will love it. On the Mongolian steppes a general in the People’s Liberation Army stakes his career, and his life, on a GPS-free missile guidance system that will change the balance of power on the battlefield. In Bath a young Chinese woman Read more


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  • I Let Her In – Maria Frankland

    When you’ve finished screaming at Cassie for being too timid, too trusting and ultimately naive, you’ll enjoy unravelling all the secrets. I tread quietly up the plush carpeted stairs. There’s no-one here to see me as Cassie and Jon’s bedroom door creaks gently open. I’ve watched them from afar for so long. Now I’m finally Read more


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  • Eliza Mace – Sarah Burton & Jem Poster

    Pass the hammer… Eliza is intent on shattering a glass ceiling that in 1870 is at the same height as a coffee table. Ultimate Uppityness! A twisty Victorian mystery featuring quick-witted detective Eliza Mace In the first of a thrilling new Victorian detective series, Eliza Mace, on the cusp of adulthood, is battling for her Read more


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  • Sometimes People Die – Simon Stephenson

    Sometimes funny, sometimes dark, sometimes emotive, completely addictive The year is 1999. Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young Scottish doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a senior house officer in the struggling east London hospital of St Luke’s. Amid the maelstrom of sick patients, over-worked staff Read more


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  • The Guest – B A Paris

    Characters you won’t like, doing things you can’t fathom, for reasons you wouldn’t contemplate. It’s genius. Iris and Gabriel have just got home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their dearest friends, Laure, is in their house – sleeping in their bed, wearing Iris’ clothes, even rearranging the furniture. She Read more


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  • The Rip – Holly Craig

    Takes a beat to find its rhythm, but then its a rip roaring ride Luxury villas on hot white sand, views for miles over turquoise water. Flawless hostess Penny gathers guests to an island for her husband’s birthday celebrations. But she soon regrets inviting self-obsessed Eloise…When a child vanishes on the night of the party, Read more


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  • A Death In Diamonds – S.J. Bennett

    Instalment four moves back in time, introduces fun new characters and is all the better for it. 1957 – Young Queen Elizabeth II is finding her way in a challenging world as the United Kingdom must adjust to having neither an empire nor a set place in post-war Europe. As she travels the world to Read more


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