Best British Detectives Books

Best Free British Detectives Books of 2024

  • Jingle Bells, Rifle Shells reviews

    Jingle Bells, Rifle Shells Book Reviews

    Bruce Hammack

    Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells…Rifle Shells? Blind private investigator Steve Smiley and his partner hear a rifle shot. Hordes of Christmas shoppers scatter. A famous biggame hunter dr...

  • Death of a Hero reviews

    Death of a Hero Book Reviews

    B.M. Allsopp

    Meet young Joe Horseman. How much will he risk to save his dead hero's honour? Horseman idolises rugby captain Seru, who plucked him from the crowd of hopeful freshers to plac...

  • The Death of Hope reviews

    The Death of Hope Book Reviews

    Lou Collins

    Family can be murder! When Ted's daring plan to put an end to his father's brutish ways backfires, Dad ends up dead, and he's not the only one. To make matters worse...

  • A Questionable Hero reviews

    A Questionable Hero Book Reviews

    Stephen Gane

    Liston Pearce was a ruthless Yardie gang boss, so why did he save the kife of a policewoman?

  • The Case of the Buried Girl reviews

    The Case of the Buried Girl Book Reviews

    Jason Cosnett

    My greatuncle was Constable ‘Edward Jones’ whose superior was not unlike the fictional Inspector Macabre, and whilst the names have been changed and the narrative spiced up a littl...

  • Murder On The Brazos reviews

    Murder On The Brazos Book Reviews

    Bruce Hammack

    He has no badge and no authority, in a county full of corruption, drugs and murder. When Fen Maguire left office as sheriff nine months ago Newman County was clean and safe. But th...

  • Just Fishing reviews

    Just Fishing Book Reviews

    Isabella Muir

    As he relaxes in his favourite seaside resort of Anzio, near Rome, Italian Detective Giuseppe Bianchi has the chance to reflect on his life choices, while helping a friend to make ...

  • Fool Me Once reviews

    Fool Me Once Book Reviews

    Solomon Carter

    In the gritty coastal town of Southend, Detective Hogarth's world is collapsing. Branded a rogue detective, his onceloyal colleague DC Simmons now dances on the precipice of d...

  • Enigma reviews

    Enigma Book Reviews

    Wolf Black

    This book is a good oldfashioned read. Pure and simple. When a serial killer starts preying on young mothers, it’s up to Love, and his sophisticated partner Stuart Le Fanu, to empl...

  • The Cheat Killers reviews

    The Cheat Killers Book Reviews

    Gordon Warden

    Detective Inspector Harry Black has a couple of burning issues... How did his attractive female flight companion vanish into thin air? Who is honeytrapping married men and killing ...

  • The Fast Train to the Grave reviews

    The Fast Train to the Grave Book Reviews

    C. A. W. Parker

    There's a corpse on his train – and a killer still on board... Rusty Macduff is a private eye with a niche: he only takes on the cases every other detective in the golden age ...

  • Dead Smart reviews

    Dead Smart Book Reviews

    Stephen Puleston

    A poor man's folly... When small time crook Eddie Westford is murdered at a busy football game, DI John Marco intially suspects football hooligans are to blame.  Unti...

  • Death in the Docks reviews

    Death in the Docks Book Reviews

    Simon Glyndwr John

    Owen Jones returns to the main Abermorfa Police Station as an Acting Detective Inspector. Owen’s new role includes his overseeing of the Special Branch unit based in the docks who ...

  • Murder in Hatterton Crow reviews

    Murder in Hatterton Crow Book Reviews

    Ormolu Mockingbird

    Gretchen is an assistant at The Great Beyond funeral home in the village of Hatterton Crow, and she is not having a good day. Her father is having one of his 'prescient turns&...

  • No Police Like Holmes reviews

    No Police Like Holmes Book Reviews

    Dan Andriacco

    Fully revised 2nd edition The Investigating Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes Colloquium and donation of the third largest private collection of Sherlockiana in the world wer...

  • Christmas, Corpses, and Clockwork Kittens reviews

    Christmas, Corpses, and Clockwork Kittens Book Reviews

    L. A. Nisula

    A short Christmas mystery set in the world of the Cassie Pengear Mysteries. While preparing their tinkering/ haberdashery shop for the Christmas season, Kate and Ada find a body on...

  • Hilda Hopkins reviews

    Hilda Hopkins Book Reviews

    Vivienne Fagan

    Hilda Hopkins está en el camino de aumentar su pensión y mantenerse en sus planes de tejer a máquina y con la lana de “Sweeney”. Después de escaparse a lo Rambo por la ventana del ...

  • Mud Pie reviews

    Mud Pie Book Reviews

    Emma Lee Bole

    A tale of rugby, puddings and murder. Ingredients: 1 handful of illegal drugs, 1 twelveinch chef's knife, 1 bloodstained handkerchief, 6 rugby forwards and half a motorbike. W...

  • Tree of Snakes reviews

    Tree of Snakes Book Reviews

    Hylton Smith

    A rough sleeping man is brought to A&E. He died in hospital. The police were alerted that tests indicated he may not have died from natural causes. The incident spirals int...

  • Mister Mottley and the Key of D reviews

    Mister Mottley and the Key of D Book Reviews

    Ellen Seltz

    Has Mottley gone mad? That night in Venice, standing on a balcony rail with an angry Slovak swordsman and a halfnaked fiddler holding them at bay, Mottley's friend Debenham re...

  • Broken Doll reviews

    Broken Doll Book Reviews

    K.D. Forrester

    Katherine Humphries has a good life, a loving husband and a sweet daughter. Her past has long been forgotten and the shame of her greatest mistake suppressed. Until one day the pas...

  • Frankenstein.com reviews

    Frankenstein.com Book Reviews

    Hylton Smith

    Frankenstein.com is the sequel to Resident Fear. Two years on from arresting the serial killer involved, a new challenge faces D.C.I. Renton. The story is once again set in the Nor...

  • Not Exactly Dead reviews

    Not Exactly Dead Book Reviews

    Kathryn Judson

    Richard Hugh, aka TripleO Five of the unsung British agency nicknamed MI5 1/2, is happily making life miserable for bad guys and, when he has time, cultivating a reputation as a la...

  • Spaghetti Junction reviews

    Spaghetti Junction Book Reviews

    James Dargan

    SPAGHETTI JUNCTION,  A NAPOLEON CLANCY BOOK, VOL. 1 It's two men against a world of criminality They're Batman and Robin without the masks, Don Quixote and Sanch...

  • The Man by the Sea reviews

    The Man by the Sea Book Reviews

    Jack Benton

    John "Slim" Hardy, heavy drinker and disgraced soldier turned bumbling private detective, is hired to investigate Ted Douglas, an investment banker who slips out of work ...

  • The Hundred Year Wait reviews

    The Hundred Year Wait Book Reviews

    Amelia Price

    The first book in the Mycroft Holmes Adventures series It's been onehundred years since Watson died and Mycroft still doesn't understand what Sherlock saw in having such ...

  • Killing at the Carnival reviews

    Killing at the Carnival Book Reviews

    L. A. Nisula

    Cassie Pengear thought a visit to the carnival would be fun: see some shows, eat some sweets, help her landlady’s nephew decide if the cowboy was real or an actor. But then the cow...

  • Murder Most Stupid reviews

    Murder Most Stupid Book Reviews

    David Brooklyn

    A horde of dreadful, vulgar, cretinous guests of dubious morals and lapsed honour, in cahoots with a pack of impertinent, bestial, lumpenproletarian staff, frustrate the noble effo...

  • Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring reviews

    Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring Book Reviews

    M. J. Trow

    Book one in the  Inspector Lestrade  series. 'In the circus, nothing is what it seems …' Walk up! Walk up! This way for the greatest show on earth! It i...

  • The Bear Trap reviews

    The Bear Trap Book Reviews

    Paul Doiron

    “Breathless pacing, dark humor, wildlife, and vivid characters.” Boston Globe In this original short story in the Mike Bowditch mystery series, legendary Maine woodsman and bush p...

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles reviews

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazi...

  • The Murder at Sissingham Hall reviews

    The Murder at Sissingham Hall Book Reviews

    Clara Benson

    "It's absolutely delightful, and I would recommend it to anyone who's a fan of Sarah Caudwell, or Agatha Christie, or anyone who loves really clever British murder m...

  • A Secondhand Lie reviews

    A Secondhand Lie Book Reviews

    Pamela Crane

    Sometimes you know things you’re not supposed to know. Things that you can never unknow. Things that will change the course of your life…and the fate of the ones you love. I found ...

  • A Taste of Inspector Pirat reviews

    A Taste of Inspector Pirat Book Reviews

    Rob Falconer

    Here is a “taste” of Inspector Pirat, a quartet of detective short stories translated from the Spanish books of Professor Guiteras featuring Inspector Pirat. These have now been re...

  • Sherlock Holmes und das Tal des Grauens reviews

    Sherlock Holmes und das Tal des Grauens Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Vollständig überarbeitete, korrigierte und illustrierte Fassung (HD) Das Tal des Grauens (Originaltitel: The Valley of Fear) ist der vierte Roman von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in dem ...

  • Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes reviews

    Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle hat nicht nur den berühmtesten Privatermittler der Welt erfunden, sondern das Genre des modernen Detektivromans gleich mit. In zwölf kurzen Erzählungen erleb...

  • Nothing but Darkness reviews

    Nothing but Darkness Book Reviews

    M.A. Green

    From international bestseller, M.A. Green Aidan Sheppard has always resisted his darker urgesonly the violent ones, he'd never deny himself anything sexualuntil one n...

  • A Mersey Killing reviews

    A Mersey Killing Book Reviews

    Brian L. Porter

    A skeleton and a missing woman. A doomed romance. A mystery spanning two generations. Liverpool, 1961. A group of young men come together seeking fame and fortune, as the fledgling...

  • Come What May reviews

    Come What May Book Reviews

    Larry Darter

    A tale of deceit, betrayal, dark choices, and murder that reviewers describe as "gripping," "full of suspense and thrills," and "hard to put down." In...

  • Palm Trees in the Pyrenees reviews

    Palm Trees in the Pyrenees Book Reviews

    Elly Grant

    Unappreciated and passed over for promotion, thirtyyearold Danielle's career in law enforcement is going nowhere. When a hated Englishman is found dead, her idyllic hometown t...

  • My Mother, the Spy Part 1 of series reviews

    My Mother, the Spy Part 1 of series Book Reviews

    Joy Bassetti-Kruger

    When Susan's mother's secret life as a spy for MI6 during the cold war, spills over into Susan's life, she is unprepared for the devastating effect this has on their...

  • The Case of the Missing Bubble Gum Card reviews

    The Case of the Missing Bubble Gum Card Book Reviews

    R Weir

    Jarvis Mann is a private detective, whose business thrived on the mundane Paying the bills by shadowing cheating spouses Getting in the middle of messy divorces And working for the...

  • Overwhelming Evidence reviews

    Overwhelming Evidence Book Reviews

    Steve Bentham

    A ruinous secret not yet told. A killer determined to keep it that way. A cozy British detective mystery with a touch of noir Christopher Vernham, a downatheel private inv...

  • Iceline reviews

    Iceline Book Reviews

    Martyn Taylor

    Smuggling, skulduggery and scuba diving and he was in the right place at the wrong time. A late evening encounter outside the compressor shed and a moment of panic. A tourist joins...

  • The Cedar Face reviews

    The Cedar Face Book Reviews

    Carole Pitt

    When Keith Wilson, an art teacher at Grasmere Academy is murdered, DI Elizabeth Jewell expects to lead the investigation. Within hours, her new boss DCI Liam Yeats takes over and e...

  • The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 4 reviews

    The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 4 Book Reviews

    Stacy Willingham, Alex Finlay, Gigi Pandian, Camilla Sten, Anna Downes & Samantha Jayne Allen

    Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? The fourth edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of six can'tmiss novelseither standalone or first in ...

  • The Dressing Table Murder reviews

    The Dressing Table Murder Book Reviews

    Cassandra Chan

    Bethancourt & Gibbons mysteries are a series of traditional British cozies in a modern setting. Phillip Bethancourt is a wealthy manabout town and amateur sleuth. His best ...

  • Sherlock Holmes - Novels reviews

    Sherlock Holmes - Novels Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Classical Sherlock Holmes novels, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study In Scarlet The Sign Of The Four The Hound Of The Baskervilles The Valley Of Fear Original illustrations inc...

  • Spravca Hier reviews

    Spravca Hier Book Reviews

    Jack Benton

    Správca hier: Napínavá britská záhada od renomovaného autora Jacka Bentona. V ťažkých časoch bývalého degradovaného vojaka, teraz súkromného detektíva Johna "Slima" Hardy...

  • Mint Chocolate Chip Murder reviews

    Mint Chocolate Chip Murder Book Reviews

    Penelope Manzone

    Jen and Sherry's Ice Cream shop is the perfect place to bring friends, families, clubs, and even pets to get a mouth watering and creamy, flavorful treatAnything like Italian ...

  • Chef Maurice and a Spot of Truffle reviews

    Chef Maurice and a Spot of Truffle Book Reviews

    J.A. Lang

    “They say one should never trust a thin chef. By this measure, Chef Maurice was very trustworthy indeed.” Take one sleepy Cotswold village, mix in one Poirotesque murder mystery, a...

  • An Addendum to the Affair of the Dog That Did Not Bark. reviews

    An Addendum to the Affair of the Dog That Did Not Bark. Book Reviews

    Philip van Wulven

    Some revelations by Dr Watson of hitherto undisclosed details in the resolution of this interesting case.

  • Cold Press - A Gripping British Mystery Thriller reviews

    Cold Press - A Gripping British Mystery Thriller Book Reviews

    David Bradwell

    A fashion photographer. A cub reporter. The missing persons story of a lifetime… London, 1993. Trainee investigative journalist Danny Churchill would do anything for his boss. And ...

  • The Four Faces A Mystery reviews

    The Four Faces A Mystery Book Reviews

    William Le Queux

    In this 1914 Edwardian mystery by English writer William Le Queux, a London gang of thieves becomes involved in robberies, kidnappings, and murders.

  • The Revengers reviews

    The Revengers Book Reviews

    Dan Andriacco

    “We've been tasered, drugged, kidnapped, and almost blown up. So I'm sorry we’re late for the party.” Jeff Cody is having a bad day. But readers will love this short stor...

  • The Woman in White reviews

    The Woman in White Book Reviews

    Wilkie Collins

    "The Woman in White", masterpiece written by Wilkie Collins and published in 1860, is one of the earliest and mostbeloved mystery novels. The public loved the mystery and...

  • Resident Fear reviews

    Resident Fear Book Reviews

    Hylton Smith

    Resident Fear, the first volume in the Fog on the Tyne series, is a crime thriller set in the Northeast of England in 2018, not long after Britain was expelled from the European Un...

  • Harvest of Souls reviews

    Harvest of Souls Book Reviews

    Hylton Smith

    A human body part appears in a car crushing plant in the suburbs of Newcastle. It was placed in a position where it would definitely be found. Having reported this incident to the ...

  • Angry Betty reviews

    Angry Betty Book Reviews

    Jamie Lee Scott

    A female cop, a dead body in the trunk of a car, and drug cartels in a small Texas town. Kate Darby learned to hate cops at an early age, thanks to her drug addicted mom. No one wo...

  • Bend The Law reviews

    Bend The Law Book Reviews

    Levi Fuller

    Defending a criminal is easy for Attorney Luke. Never lost a case in years, Attorney Luke finds himself in the most challenging case ever. He doesn't want to take the case, bu...

Best Paid British Detectives Books of 2024

  • Jingle Bells, Rifle Shells reviews

    Jingle Bells, Rifle Shells Book Reviews

    Bruce Hammack

    Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells…Rifle Shells? Blind private investigator Steve Smiley and his partner hear a rifle shot. Hordes of Christmas shoppers scatter. A famous biggame hunter dr...

  • Death of a Hero reviews

    Death of a Hero Book Reviews

    B.M. Allsopp

    Meet young Joe Horseman. How much will he risk to save his dead hero's honour? Horseman idolises rugby captain Seru, who plucked him from the crowd of hopeful freshers to plac...

  • The Death of Hope reviews

    The Death of Hope Book Reviews

    Lou Collins

    Family can be murder! When Ted's daring plan to put an end to his father's brutish ways backfires, Dad ends up dead, and he's not the only one. To make matters worse...

  • A Questionable Hero reviews

    A Questionable Hero Book Reviews

    Stephen Gane

    Liston Pearce was a ruthless Yardie gang boss, so why did he save the kife of a policewoman?

  • The Case of the Buried Girl reviews

    The Case of the Buried Girl Book Reviews

    Jason Cosnett

    My greatuncle was Constable ‘Edward Jones’ whose superior was not unlike the fictional Inspector Macabre, and whilst the names have been changed and the narrative spiced up a littl...

  • Murder On The Brazos reviews

    Murder On The Brazos Book Reviews

    Bruce Hammack

    He has no badge and no authority, in a county full of corruption, drugs and murder. When Fen Maguire left office as sheriff nine months ago Newman County was clean and safe. But th...

  • Just Fishing reviews

    Just Fishing Book Reviews

    Isabella Muir

    As he relaxes in his favourite seaside resort of Anzio, near Rome, Italian Detective Giuseppe Bianchi has the chance to reflect on his life choices, while helping a friend to make ...

  • Fool Me Once reviews

    Fool Me Once Book Reviews

    Solomon Carter

    In the gritty coastal town of Southend, Detective Hogarth's world is collapsing. Branded a rogue detective, his onceloyal colleague DC Simmons now dances on the precipice of d...

  • Enigma reviews

    Enigma Book Reviews

    Wolf Black

    This book is a good oldfashioned read. Pure and simple. When a serial killer starts preying on young mothers, it’s up to Love, and his sophisticated partner Stuart Le Fanu, to empl...

  • The Cheat Killers reviews

    The Cheat Killers Book Reviews

    Gordon Warden

    Detective Inspector Harry Black has a couple of burning issues... How did his attractive female flight companion vanish into thin air? Who is honeytrapping married men and killing ...

  • The Fast Train to the Grave reviews

    The Fast Train to the Grave Book Reviews

    C. A. W. Parker

    There's a corpse on his train – and a killer still on board... Rusty Macduff is a private eye with a niche: he only takes on the cases every other detective in the golden age ...

  • Dead Smart reviews

    Dead Smart Book Reviews

    Stephen Puleston

    A poor man's folly... When small time crook Eddie Westford is murdered at a busy football game, DI John Marco intially suspects football hooligans are to blame.  Unti...

  • Death in the Docks reviews

    Death in the Docks Book Reviews

    Simon Glyndwr John

    Owen Jones returns to the main Abermorfa Police Station as an Acting Detective Inspector. Owen’s new role includes his overseeing of the Special Branch unit based in the docks who ...

  • Murder in Hatterton Crow reviews

    Murder in Hatterton Crow Book Reviews

    Ormolu Mockingbird

    Gretchen is an assistant at The Great Beyond funeral home in the village of Hatterton Crow, and she is not having a good day. Her father is having one of his 'prescient turns&...

  • No Police Like Holmes reviews

    No Police Like Holmes Book Reviews

    Dan Andriacco

    Fully revised 2nd edition The Investigating Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes Colloquium and donation of the third largest private collection of Sherlockiana in the world wer...

  • Christmas, Corpses, and Clockwork Kittens reviews

    Christmas, Corpses, and Clockwork Kittens Book Reviews

    L. A. Nisula

    A short Christmas mystery set in the world of the Cassie Pengear Mysteries. While preparing their tinkering/ haberdashery shop for the Christmas season, Kate and Ada find a body on...

  • Hilda Hopkins reviews

    Hilda Hopkins Book Reviews

    Vivienne Fagan

    Hilda Hopkins está en el camino de aumentar su pensión y mantenerse en sus planes de tejer a máquina y con la lana de “Sweeney”. Después de escaparse a lo Rambo por la ventana del ...

  • Mud Pie reviews

    Mud Pie Book Reviews

    Emma Lee Bole

    A tale of rugby, puddings and murder. Ingredients: 1 handful of illegal drugs, 1 twelveinch chef's knife, 1 bloodstained handkerchief, 6 rugby forwards and half a motorbike. W...

  • Tree of Snakes reviews

    Tree of Snakes Book Reviews

    Hylton Smith

    A rough sleeping man is brought to A&E. He died in hospital. The police were alerted that tests indicated he may not have died from natural causes. The incident spirals int...

  • Mister Mottley and the Key of D reviews

    Mister Mottley and the Key of D Book Reviews

    Ellen Seltz

    Has Mottley gone mad? That night in Venice, standing on a balcony rail with an angry Slovak swordsman and a halfnaked fiddler holding them at bay, Mottley's friend Debenham re...

  • Broken Doll reviews

    Broken Doll Book Reviews

    K.D. Forrester

    Katherine Humphries has a good life, a loving husband and a sweet daughter. Her past has long been forgotten and the shame of her greatest mistake suppressed. Until one day the pas...

  • Frankenstein.com reviews

    Frankenstein.com Book Reviews

    Hylton Smith

    Frankenstein.com is the sequel to Resident Fear. Two years on from arresting the serial killer involved, a new challenge faces D.C.I. Renton. The story is once again set in the Nor...

  • Not Exactly Dead reviews

    Not Exactly Dead Book Reviews

    Kathryn Judson

    Richard Hugh, aka TripleO Five of the unsung British agency nicknamed MI5 1/2, is happily making life miserable for bad guys and, when he has time, cultivating a reputation as a la...

  • Spaghetti Junction reviews

    Spaghetti Junction Book Reviews

    James Dargan

    SPAGHETTI JUNCTION,  A NAPOLEON CLANCY BOOK, VOL. 1 It's two men against a world of criminality They're Batman and Robin without the masks, Don Quixote and Sanch...

  • The Man by the Sea reviews

    The Man by the Sea Book Reviews

    Jack Benton

    John "Slim" Hardy, heavy drinker and disgraced soldier turned bumbling private detective, is hired to investigate Ted Douglas, an investment banker who slips out of work ...

  • The Hundred Year Wait reviews

    The Hundred Year Wait Book Reviews

    Amelia Price

    The first book in the Mycroft Holmes Adventures series It's been onehundred years since Watson died and Mycroft still doesn't understand what Sherlock saw in having such ...

  • Killing at the Carnival reviews

    Killing at the Carnival Book Reviews

    L. A. Nisula

    Cassie Pengear thought a visit to the carnival would be fun: see some shows, eat some sweets, help her landlady’s nephew decide if the cowboy was real or an actor. But then the cow...

  • Murder Most Stupid reviews

    Murder Most Stupid Book Reviews

    David Brooklyn

    A horde of dreadful, vulgar, cretinous guests of dubious morals and lapsed honour, in cahoots with a pack of impertinent, bestial, lumpenproletarian staff, frustrate the noble effo...

  • Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring reviews

    Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring Book Reviews

    M. J. Trow

    Book one in the  Inspector Lestrade  series. 'In the circus, nothing is what it seems …' Walk up! Walk up! This way for the greatest show on earth! It i...

  • The Bear Trap reviews

    The Bear Trap Book Reviews

    Paul Doiron

    “Breathless pacing, dark humor, wildlife, and vivid characters.” Boston Globe In this original short story in the Mike Bowditch mystery series, legendary Maine woodsman and bush p...

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles reviews

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazi...

  • The Murder at Sissingham Hall reviews

    The Murder at Sissingham Hall Book Reviews

    Clara Benson

    "It's absolutely delightful, and I would recommend it to anyone who's a fan of Sarah Caudwell, or Agatha Christie, or anyone who loves really clever British murder m...

  • A Secondhand Lie reviews

    A Secondhand Lie Book Reviews

    Pamela Crane

    Sometimes you know things you’re not supposed to know. Things that you can never unknow. Things that will change the course of your life…and the fate of the ones you love. I found ...

  • A Taste of Inspector Pirat reviews

    A Taste of Inspector Pirat Book Reviews

    Rob Falconer

    Here is a “taste” of Inspector Pirat, a quartet of detective short stories translated from the Spanish books of Professor Guiteras featuring Inspector Pirat. These have now been re...

  • Sherlock Holmes und das Tal des Grauens reviews

    Sherlock Holmes und das Tal des Grauens Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Vollständig überarbeitete, korrigierte und illustrierte Fassung (HD) Das Tal des Grauens (Originaltitel: The Valley of Fear) ist der vierte Roman von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in dem ...

  • Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes reviews

    Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle hat nicht nur den berühmtesten Privatermittler der Welt erfunden, sondern das Genre des modernen Detektivromans gleich mit. In zwölf kurzen Erzählungen erleb...

  • Nothing but Darkness reviews

    Nothing but Darkness Book Reviews

    M.A. Green

    From international bestseller, M.A. Green Aidan Sheppard has always resisted his darker urgesonly the violent ones, he'd never deny himself anything sexualuntil one n...

  • A Mersey Killing reviews

    A Mersey Killing Book Reviews

    Brian L. Porter

    A skeleton and a missing woman. A doomed romance. A mystery spanning two generations. Liverpool, 1961. A group of young men come together seeking fame and fortune, as the fledgling...

  • Come What May reviews

    Come What May Book Reviews

    Larry Darter

    A tale of deceit, betrayal, dark choices, and murder that reviewers describe as "gripping," "full of suspense and thrills," and "hard to put down." In...

  • Palm Trees in the Pyrenees reviews

    Palm Trees in the Pyrenees Book Reviews

    Elly Grant

    Unappreciated and passed over for promotion, thirtyyearold Danielle's career in law enforcement is going nowhere. When a hated Englishman is found dead, her idyllic hometown t...

  • My Mother, the Spy Part 1 of series reviews

    My Mother, the Spy Part 1 of series Book Reviews

    Joy Bassetti-Kruger

    When Susan's mother's secret life as a spy for MI6 during the cold war, spills over into Susan's life, she is unprepared for the devastating effect this has on their...

  • The Case of the Missing Bubble Gum Card reviews

    The Case of the Missing Bubble Gum Card Book Reviews

    R Weir

    Jarvis Mann is a private detective, whose business thrived on the mundane Paying the bills by shadowing cheating spouses Getting in the middle of messy divorces And working for the...

  • Overwhelming Evidence reviews

    Overwhelming Evidence Book Reviews

    Steve Bentham

    A ruinous secret not yet told. A killer determined to keep it that way. A cozy British detective mystery with a touch of noir Christopher Vernham, a downatheel private inv...

  • Iceline reviews

    Iceline Book Reviews

    Martyn Taylor

    Smuggling, skulduggery and scuba diving and he was in the right place at the wrong time. A late evening encounter outside the compressor shed and a moment of panic. A tourist joins...

  • The Cedar Face reviews

    The Cedar Face Book Reviews

    Carole Pitt

    When Keith Wilson, an art teacher at Grasmere Academy is murdered, DI Elizabeth Jewell expects to lead the investigation. Within hours, her new boss DCI Liam Yeats takes over and e...

  • The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 4 reviews

    The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 4 Book Reviews

    Stacy Willingham, Alex Finlay, Gigi Pandian, Camilla Sten, Anna Downes & Samantha Jayne Allen

    Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? The fourth edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of six can'tmiss novelseither standalone or first in ...

  • The Dressing Table Murder reviews

    The Dressing Table Murder Book Reviews

    Cassandra Chan

    Bethancourt & Gibbons mysteries are a series of traditional British cozies in a modern setting. Phillip Bethancourt is a wealthy manabout town and amateur sleuth. His best ...

  • Sherlock Holmes - Novels reviews

    Sherlock Holmes - Novels Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Classical Sherlock Holmes novels, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study In Scarlet The Sign Of The Four The Hound Of The Baskervilles The Valley Of Fear Original illustrations inc...

  • Spravca Hier reviews

    Spravca Hier Book Reviews

    Jack Benton

    Správca hier: Napínavá britská záhada od renomovaného autora Jacka Bentona. V ťažkých časoch bývalého degradovaného vojaka, teraz súkromného detektíva Johna "Slima" Hardy...

  • Mint Chocolate Chip Murder reviews

    Mint Chocolate Chip Murder Book Reviews

    Penelope Manzone

    Jen and Sherry's Ice Cream shop is the perfect place to bring friends, families, clubs, and even pets to get a mouth watering and creamy, flavorful treatAnything like Italian ...

  • Chef Maurice and a Spot of Truffle reviews

    Chef Maurice and a Spot of Truffle Book Reviews

    J.A. Lang

    “They say one should never trust a thin chef. By this measure, Chef Maurice was very trustworthy indeed.” Take one sleepy Cotswold village, mix in one Poirotesque murder mystery, a...

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    An Addendum to the Affair of the Dog That Did Not Bark. Book Reviews

    Philip van Wulven

    Some revelations by Dr Watson of hitherto undisclosed details in the resolution of this interesting case.

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    Cold Press - A Gripping British Mystery Thriller Book Reviews

    David Bradwell

    A fashion photographer. A cub reporter. The missing persons story of a lifetime… London, 1993. Trainee investigative journalist Danny Churchill would do anything for his boss. And ...

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    The Four Faces A Mystery Book Reviews

    William Le Queux

    In this 1914 Edwardian mystery by English writer William Le Queux, a London gang of thieves becomes involved in robberies, kidnappings, and murders.

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    The Revengers Book Reviews

    Dan Andriacco

    “We've been tasered, drugged, kidnapped, and almost blown up. So I'm sorry we’re late for the party.” Jeff Cody is having a bad day. But readers will love this short stor...

  • The Woman in White reviews

    The Woman in White Book Reviews

    Wilkie Collins

    "The Woman in White", masterpiece written by Wilkie Collins and published in 1860, is one of the earliest and mostbeloved mystery novels. The public loved the mystery and...

  • Resident Fear reviews

    Resident Fear Book Reviews

    Hylton Smith

    Resident Fear, the first volume in the Fog on the Tyne series, is a crime thriller set in the Northeast of England in 2018, not long after Britain was expelled from the European Un...

  • Harvest of Souls reviews

    Harvest of Souls Book Reviews

    Hylton Smith

    A human body part appears in a car crushing plant in the suburbs of Newcastle. It was placed in a position where it would definitely be found. Having reported this incident to the ...

  • Angry Betty reviews

    Angry Betty Book Reviews

    Jamie Lee Scott

    A female cop, a dead body in the trunk of a car, and drug cartels in a small Texas town. Kate Darby learned to hate cops at an early age, thanks to her drug addicted mom. No one wo...

  • Bend The Law reviews

    Bend The Law Book Reviews

    Levi Fuller

    Defending a criminal is easy for Attorney Luke. Never lost a case in years, Attorney Luke finds himself in the most challenging case ever. He doesn't want to take the case, bu...