Book Reviews: New Crime Fiction

I haven’t been great at keeping on top of my blogging recently. Sometimes life just takes over! However, I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to highlight some crime fiction and thriller gems that I’ve enjoyed in the past few months.


The Dark Hours’ by Amy Jordan

I loved the premise of this novel – seeing a police officer at the very start of her career in 1994, then when she’s called back as a retired detective in 2024 to pick up a case that has echoes of that traumatic first one.

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Book Review: ‘The Christmas Appeal’ by Janice Hallett

Happy publication day to ‘The Christmas Appeal’ – 26th October, 2023.

I absolutely loved Janice Hallett’s ‘The Appeal’ so it was a joy to be given access to ‘The Christmas Appeal’ – a chance to rejoin the Fairway Players as they grapple with a pantomime, plus an unexpected dead body!

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Book Review: ‘Murder in the Family’ by Cara Hunter

I love Cara Hunter’s police procedurals (featuring DI Adam Fawley) so I was thrilled to get my hands on ‘Murder in the Family’, Hunter’s first standalone novel.

Thanks to NetGalley for my review copy – opinions are entirely my own.

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