Criminal Shorts

Reviews so short its criminal

AudioBook

  • A Lesson In Cruelty – Harriet Tyce

    Elaborately woven, intricately detailed, engross yourself in the set up for a brilliant pay off. They say you can’t always get what you want. But you can take it. Anna wants a fresh start. She doesn’t believe she deserves it, but after three years behind bars she has finally paid her dues. Most of them, Read more


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  • My Perfect Marriage – A J Campbell

    Well that one caught me out, and not just because it’s the wrong persons best friend that dies… My husband is accused of killing my best friend. Can I trust anything he says? It feels like all the air has been knocked out of me. My best friend is dead, killed at her own daughter’s Read more


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  • How to Kill A Guy In Ten Ways – Eve Kellman

    Pacy, gripping and intelligent. A dark listen, expertly juxtaposing harsh realities with moments of light and clarity.  Are you on a date that doesn’t feel right? Can’t shake that creepy guy at the bar?Worried you’re being followed home?Message M. After one too many terrifying encounters, Millie Masters sets up a hotline for women who feel unsafe Read more


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  • Day One – Abigail Dean

    Provoking contemplation on the origins of and obsessions with conspiracy theories, it’s easily read and thoroughly addictive. Marty told the reporters that she saw it happen. She saw the gunman enter the hall. She saw her mother die trying to protect them all. That’s the version of Day One Marty wishes was true. But strange Read more


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  • Every Move You Make – C L Taylor

    Like a sucker punch to the stomach of your insecurities, it’s creepy, anxiety inducing and addictive as hell. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer… Alexandra, Lucy, Bridget, River and Natalie. Five friends who wish they’d never met. Because the one thing they have in common is the worst thing in their lives: they Read more


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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 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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  • Jericho’s Dead – William Hussey

    (spoilers) he’s not, he’s actually discovering how the recently deceased came to be that way, while simultaneously failing to detect what is wrong with his relationship. Former CID detective Scott Jericho is done with murder. Done with puzzles. Done with the dark rage that seems to haunt him. That is until a vicious serial killer Read more


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