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: Forsyth, Mankell, Robertson, Seeber, Tope, Wagner

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Here are this week's reviews:

Terry Halligan reviews the paperback release of Frederick Forsyth's The Cobra, and give his reasons why Forsyth stays ahead of the competition;

Susan White reviews Henning Mankell's The Man from Beijing, tr. Laurie Thompson, also out in paperback;

Amanda Gillies reviews Craig Robertson's follow-up to the well-received Random: Snapshot calling it "truly scrumptious";

Michelle Peckham reviews one of Claire Seeber's earlier books, Bad Friends which she found to be more chick-lit than crime;

Lizzie Hayes enjoyed Rebecca Tope's A Grave in the Cotswolds which brings two of her series together

and Maxine Clarke says it's worth reading Jan Costin Wagner's Ice Moon before The Winter of the Lions, tr. Anthea Bell to get the full impact of the events in the personal life of the lead character.

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