New Reviews: Cameron, Child, Grace, Hilton, Macken, Zeh

This month's competition:
Win a copy of Daisychain by G J Moffat (UK only) - closing very soon (look out for a new competition to replace this one shortly)
and a new one for May (open now):
Win a copy of Bad Penny Blues by Cathi Unsworth (UK only).

This week's reviews are mostly a mixture of thriller and science based crime fiction:

Pat Austin reviews Kenneth Cameron's The Second Woman set in 1900s London;

Maxine Clarke reviews 61 Hours by Lee Child;

Amanda Gillies reviews globe-trotting thriller Quantum by Tom Grace;

Michelle Peckham reviews the paperback edition of Matt Hilton's second Joe Hunter novel, Judgement and Wrath, set in Miami;

Terry Halligan reviews the fourth in the GeneCrime series from John Macken: Control

and Maxine also reviews the "philosophical thriller", Dark Matter by Juli Zeh, translated by Christine Lo.

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

New Reviews: Macken, Moore, Peace, Sigurdardottir & a New Competition

A new competition is up and running. The prize is a copy of Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor. A second competition for March may be added at a later date. Watch this space...

The following reviews have been added to the review archive over on the main Euro Crime website:

New Reviews:

Amanda Brown reviews the third in the GeneCrime series by John Macken, Breaking Point, and she writes that, "tense and violent, this is not a light book, but it makes gripping reading";

Maxine Clarke reviews Donna Moore's laugh out loud debut novel Go to Helena Handbasket calling it "one hundred and fifty pages of pure fun";

Pat Austin continues her reviews of the Red Riding Quartet by David Peace, with part two, 1977 - "an extraordinary and masterly piece of work"

and Michelle Peckham reviews the paperback edition of Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurdardottir a book that is a recent favourite of the euro crime review team.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found here.

New Reviews: Beckett, Jungstedt, Macken, Rayne & New Competition

A new competition is up and running. NB This one will close on 14th February and a new one will start on the 15th.

The following reviews have been added to the review archive over on the main Euro Crime website:

New Reviews:

It's been a two year wait for the new David Hunter novel by Simon Beckett. Michelle Peckham reviews, Whispers of the Dead which takes place in the 'Body Farm' in the US and is somewhat gruesome in parts;

Maxine Clarke reviews the third in the Gotland series by Mari Jungstedt, which until recently was to be called 'A Lonely Place' but is published as Unknown (US: The Inner Circle);

Terry Halligan reviews the paperback edition of John Macken's Trial by Blood which he found "unputdownable"

and Amanda Gillies writes that Sarah Rayne's Ghost Song "had me both absorbed and fascinated".

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found here.

The first competition of February is for a set of the ten Martin Beck books by Sjowall and Wahloo. (Closing date is 14th February, one entry per household and UK/Europe entrants only.)

Not quite the 4.50 from Paddington

Looks like the chap missed the train...

John Macken's Breaking Point and Jack Higgins' Breaking Point are both out in Jan. 2009.

New Reviews: Downing, Goodwin, Hayder, Macken, Somer & Young

Here are this week's new reviews and details of the latest competitions (a second competition for UK/Europe residents has been added this week).

Latest Reviews:

Laura Root reviews David Downing's Silesian Station writing that it is "a thoughtful, sensitive thriller";

Norman Price reviews the second in the Yashim, Ottoman Detective series by Jason Goodwin: The Snake Stone which it seems is a rather impressive follow-up to the Edgar winning The Janissary Tree;

Fiona Walker calls Mo Hayder's Ritual "a complete triumph" and that it is "certainly the best British crime novel I've read so far this year";

Maxine Clarke thinks that Trial by Blood by John Macken is one for action fans rather "than for those who like a lean plot with strong characters";

I take a look at recent Euro Crime interviewee, Mehmet Murat Somer's The Prophet Murders

and Kerrie Smith provides the low down on Felicity Young's Harum Scarum a police procedural set in Perth (Australia) (the author was born in Europe but now lives and sets her books in Australia).


Current Competitions (closing date 31 May):


Win a copy of Lost Souls by Neil White*

Win a signed copy of Spider by Michael Morley*

* UK/Europe only