Criminal Shorts

Reviews so short its criminal

AudioBook

  • 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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  • The Custody Battle – Ellie Monago

    Witness a rapid decent into an inevitable disaster, that you just can’t stop yourself from watching. “What’s going to happen to me?” my little girl asks, clutching her teddy bear tight. “Daddy and I love you,” I reply. “Nothing is going to change.” But I was so wrong. How far will I have to go 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 Wife’s Mistake – Lorna Douneva

    Watch as Natalie discovers that money can’t buy you happiness is the understatement of the decade, when someone decides you aren’t worthy… I have the life I’ve always dreamed of… but how long will it be until the past catches up with me? I can’t believe how far my husband, Hayden, and I have come. I Read more


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  • Deadly Animals – Marie Tierney

    Nancy Drew meets Bones. Precocious, inquisitive and incredibly clever, Ava, is brilliant. Thirteen-year-old Ava Bonney possesses an unusual intellect far beyond her years. While her friends play, Ava’s fascination lies in the intricate process of animal decomposition, studying roadkill found in the streets around her home. But, one night, Ava’s secret nocturnal routine takes a Read more


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  • Lewis Sinclair & The Gentlemen Cowboys – D.M.S Fick

    Entertaining listen, with gentle humour, and a lot of hats… This is not your average country music festival.  Lewis Sinclair gets dumped right before taking the stage at a top music festival. The man she dumped him for? His manager, who later turns up dead, with Lew being the primary suspect.  Read more


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  • The Patient – Teri Terry

    Yanks your heartstrings and ties them up in knots you can’t easily unravel.  Loved it. I feel the steady thump of my new heart beating inside me. The surgeon said everything went well. But I can’t stop thinking about my donor: the girl who was killed. Her death saved my life. But now whoever took 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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  • The Girl On The News – Elisabeth Carpenter

    This one genuinely caught me unaware with its reveal. My heart pounds as I take in the headline: ‘Missing girl believed kidnapped’. Underneath is a photo of my beautiful daughter Mia, her gap-toothed grin unmistakable. But Mia is safe beside me, snuggled up on the sofa. Why would someone pretend my child has been taken? Read more


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  • Helle and Death – Oskar Jensen

    Not one wasted opportunity to de-rail the reader and a denouement to die for! Puzzling escapism at its best A snowstorm. A country house. Old friends reunited. It’s going to be murder… Torben Helle – art historian, Danish ex-pat and owner of several excellent Scandinavian jumpers – finds himself dragged to a remote snowbound Northumbrian Read more


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