SHE’S OUT OF UNIFORM BUT SHE’S STILL IN THE LINE OF FIRE. Discover a thrilling new Scottish crime series starring Detective Helen Carter. Detective Helen Carter needs a break. Instead, she’s going head-to-head with notorious cop killer Jimmy Osbourne. Eight years ago he pulled off the perfect heist and fled to Spain, leaving behind a trail of carnage. But not a shred of evidence to implicate … Continue reading The Suspects by Jodie Lawrance #BookReview #DetectiveHelenCarter3 #JoffeBooks #4*

A DARK, TWISTY AND UTTERLY COMPULSIVE PAGE-TURNER. A killer who sends drawings of the murders he will commit. A detective who will do anything to stop him. Detective Claudia Nunn has never seen anything so beautiful — or so horrifying. The intricate drawing is sent to her at work. It shows a man, naked on a bed. His arms are bound, his face contorted in … Continue reading Seconds to Die by Rebecca Bradley #BookReview #DIClaudiaNunn2 #JoffeBooks #4.5*

Can’t find her. Can’t catch him. Can’t trust anyone. The first in a gripping new Sheffield-set crime series starring Detective Claudia Nunn. Detective Claudia Nunn’s colleague DS Dominic Harrison has been leading the case against a dangerous serial killer, who hunts his victims using a dating app. But now his own wife has gone missing. Then a large pool of blood is discovered in their … Continue reading Blood Stained by Rebecca Bradley #BookReview #DetectiveClaudiaNunn1 #Joffe Books #5*

FROM TWO-MILLION SELLING AUTHOR JOY ELLIS COMES ONE OF THE MOST EAGERLY AWAITED MYSTERIES THIS YEAR. One moonlit night, the bodies of two young people are discovered lying entwined on a blanket in the woods. The young man is clutching a red rose. It appears to be a lovers’ suicide pact . . . Until Detective Nikki Galena and DS Joseph Easter look more closely. … Continue reading Secrets on the Fens by Joy Ellis #BookReview #DINikkiGalena12 #Joffe Books #4.5*

Identifying the guilty isn’t always easy… DCI Alex Fleming returns to work after convalescent leave to find that the Assistant Chief Constable wants him to review an old cold case. William Stroud, a union activist, was shot dead five years ago after a strike at the Atomic Weapons Establishment organised by the union leader, Bill Kauffman. No one had ever been arrested for the crime … Continue reading The Last Man by Robert McNeil #BookReview #DCIAlexFleming2 #BloodhoundBooks #4*

This is going to hurt… This killer is playing a deadly game and DI Melanie Watton must win if she wants to survive. When DI Melanie Watton is called in to investigate the brutal murder of a taxidermist, she and her team find themselves tracking a killer and a thief. With very few leads to go on, the trail goes cold, until one of the … Continue reading The Cutter by Charlotte Barnes #BookReview #DIMelanieWatton3 #BloodhoundBooks #4.5*

DI Alec McKay is back. In the depths of a cold Scottish winter, an unidentified body is found in the heart of a solstice bonfire, apparently burned alive. Over a tense Christmas, a retired businessman goes missing, his body eventually found hanging from a tree in the coastal town. Another associate is found brutally murdered in his remote Highland home. DCI Helena Grant wants to … Continue reading For Their Sins by Alex Walters #BookReview #DIAlecMcKay5 #BloodhoundBooks #4*