New Reviews: Bolton, George, Hayes, Jungstedt, McKinty, Tyler

Competition for May:
Win a copy of Stagestruck by Peter Lovesey UK & Europe only (closes 4 June)

Do please vote in the International Dagger polls (top right of blog).

Here are this week's reviews:

Michelle Peckham reviews Now You See Me by S J Bolton, a more urban outing than the previous three standalone novels but just as enjoyable it would appear;

Susan White is disappointed with Elizabeth George's This Body of Death, now out in paperback;

Amanda Gillies reviews Sam Hayes's Someone Else's Son also out in paperback and calls it "truly superb";

Maxine Clarke reviews the fifth Inspector Knutas book, set on Gotland, The Dead of Summer by Mari Jungstedt, tr. Tiina Nunnally;

Terry Halligan reviews Adrian McKinty's Falling Glass set in Northern Ireland

and earlier this week on the blog I reviewed L C Tyler's Ten Little Herrings the second outing for mismatched duo Elsie and Ethelred.

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

Trailer - Someone Else's Son & Exclusive Extract

Here is the trailer for this month's competition prize, Someone Else's Son by Sam Hayes:



In addition I have been sent an exclusive extract containing pages 124 to 129 which can be viewed here (hosted on the euro crime website).

The competition is open to all and can be entered here.

New Competition - Win Someone Else's Son by Sam Hayes (world-wide)

Euro Crime has five copies of Someone Else's Son (hardback) by Sam Hayes to giveaway. Just answer the simple question and include your details in the form below.

This competition is open internationally and will close on 31 October 2010.
Only 1 entry per person/per household please.
(All entries will be deleted once the winners have been notified.)

A tense and powerful emotional thriller from Sam Hayes that asks: Do we ever really know our children? 'What would you do if your teenage son was stabbed to death at school?' That's a question chat-show host Carrie Kent can well imagine posing to any one of her studio guests. Her daily morning TV show deals with real life in all it's grubby glory - from underage sex to benefit swindlers, cheating partners to DNA testing. It's a million miles away from her perfect, polished existence. But when she gets a call to say that her beloved son Max has been murdered, Carrie and her ex-husband Brody will have to enter a world of poverty, fear and violence if they want to find out what really happened. And when the shocking truth is finally revealed, will they be able to live with it...?