New Reviews: Bonner, Chase, Colfer, Forsyth, Jones, McIntosh, Masterton, Sundstol, Zouroudi

This week's set of reviews, added to Euro Crime today, is a mixture of new reviews and a catch-up of those posted directly on the blog in the last two weeks, so you may have read some of them before if you're a regular :).

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New Reviews

It's been a 9 year gap between books but Hilary Bonner is back with The Cruellest Game reviewed here by Susan White;

Michelle Peckham reviews  Wicked Game, the first in a new series by E V Seymour writing as Adam Chase, starring assassin for hire, Hex;

Lynn Harvey reviews Eoin Colfer's Screwed, the sequel to Plugged, which is now out in paperback;

Terry Halligan reviews Frederick Forsyth's The Kill List;

Geoff Jones reviews J Sydney Jones's Ruin Value set in Nuremberg at the time of the trials;

Terry also reviews The Fourth Crow by Pat McIntosh, the ninth in the Gil Cunningham series set in medieval Glasgow;

Rich Westwood reviews Graham Masterton's Broken Angels, the second in the Superintendent Katie Maguire series set in Cork, and warns it has some strong content;

Laura Root reviews Vidar Sundstol's The Land of Dreams, tr. Tiina Nunnally, the first part in his "Minnesota Trilogy"


and Amanda Gillies reviews the seventh in the Greek Hermes Diaktoros series from Anne Zouroudi: The Feast of Artemis.




Previous reviews can be found in the review archive.

Forthcoming titles can be found by author or date or by category, here along with releases by year.

New Reviews: Blake, Camilleri, Colfer, Judd, Lewis, Orsi, Quinn, Robertson, Tegenfalk

The range of reviews covers country-house, spy, police-procedural, historical, thriller and the settings include England, Germany, Burma, Argentina, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the USA.

Here are the new 9 reviews:

We continue our reviews of the reissue of four of Nicholas Blake's titles with Susan White reviewing Thou Shell of Death, a country-house mystery set at Christmas;

Rich Westwood reviews International Dagger winner Andrea Camilleri's The Track of Sand, tr. Stephen Sartarelli now out in paperback;

Lynn Harvey reviews Eoin Colfer's Plugged also out in paperback;

Terry Halligan reviews Alan Judd's Uncommon Enemy which has just been longlisted for the CWA's Steel Dagger;

Maxine Clarke reviews Simon Lewis's Border Run blurbed as "Lord of the Flies meets The Beach";

Amanda Gillies travels to Argentina for Holy City by Guillermo Orsi, tr. Nick Caistor calling it an "absolute belter";

Susan also reviews Susanna Quinn's Glass Geishas set in Japan;

Terry continues to be impressed by Imogen Robertson's historical series with the fourth, Circle of Shadows recently published

and I recently reviewed on the blog Stefan Tegenfalk's Anger Mode, tr. David Evans the first part in a Swedish trilogy.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive.

Forthcoming titles can be found by author or date or by category, here along with releases by year.

New Reviews: Carr, Colfer, Connor, McGilloway, Parot, Sharp

The reviews are back though expect another hiatus when I'm at CrimeFest (where the International Dagger Shortlist will be announced).

Here are this week's reviews:

Terry Halligan reviews the first in a new Victorian series, India Black by Carol K Carr;

Susan White reviews Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer's first adult crime book, Plugged;

Another author changing direction is Alex Connor, who has switched from historicals to a thriller in The Rembrandt Secret reviewed here by Amanda Gillies;

Maxine Clarke reviews Brian McGilloway's Little Girl Lost which is either a standalone or the beginning of a new series;

I review Jean-Francois Parot's rich brew that is The Saint-Florentin Murders, tr. Howard Curtis set in 18th Century France;

and Lizzie Hayes reviews Zoe Sharp's Fifth Victim, where "bodyguard" Charlie Fox goes to Long Island.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found by author or date, here.