Read an e-book week

Read an e-book week runs from 7 - 13 March and a couple of euro crime titles have been made available for free download for the occasion:

The out of print first entry in Simon Hall's series - TV Detective (apa A Popular Murder) - is now available free as an e-book from Accent Press. You will need to set up an account to be able to download the pdf for free. Go here.

Also a pdf of Pauline Rowson's In for the Kill can be downloaded from her website.

New Reviews: Fowler, Grace, Hall, Meyer, Monroe, Weeks

The newest competition which closes on 31 December: Win Murder on the Cliffs by Joanna Challis (UK & Europe only)

Here are the new reviews that have been added to the website (yesterday and) today:

Terry Halligan reviews The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler and he seems as taken with the series as I am;

Amanda Gillies reviews Tom Grace's The Secret Cardinal and she recommends it to "fans of Tom Clancy and Jack Higgins";

Amanda Brown reviews the latest in Simon Hall's photographer/police-officer series, The Judgement Book writing that "for me this is the best one yet";

Maxine Clarke reviews the paperback edition of Blood Safari by Dean Meyer, tr. K L Seegers (another one of my favourite authors) and Maxine begins her review: "an excellent thriller which held me completely entranced from the moment I opened it and read the first page";

Norman Price enjoyed Aly Monroe's Washington Shadow and is looking forward to more books with her series character Peter Cotton

and Michelle Peckham reviews Lee Weeks' third Johnny Mann book, Death Trip, the violence in which left her seeking a nice cosy read afterwards.

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

New Reviews: Grace and Hall

Here are a couple of this week's new reviews, the rest should follow tomorrow:

Amanda Gillies reviews Tom Grace's The Secret Cardinal and she recommends it to "fans of Tom Clancy and Jack Higgins"

and Amanda Brown reviews the latest in Simon Hall's photographer/police-officer series, The Judgement Book writing that "for me this is the best one yet".

More reviews can be found on the review page

Upcoming releases can be found here and the December competition is here.

New Reviews: Alan, Hall, Hochgatterer, Quigley, Tope

Here are this week's new reviews:

New Reviews:

Geoff Jones reviews the Christie-esque A Game of Murder by tv perfomer and tv writer, Ray Alan;

Amanda Brown reviews the third in this series from Simon Hall - Evil Valley - which 'stars' a reporter and a police officer;

Maxine Clarke reviews Paulus Hochgatterer's The Sweetness of Life which is set in a village in Austria and focuses more on the inhabitants than the crime, but is still an interesting read;

Michelle Peckham reviews Every Breath You Take by Sheila Quigley which she enjoyed though found the plot to be too obvious

and Sunnie Gill reviews Rebecca Tope's A Cotswold Mystery which is now out in paperback. I wonder if her heroine ever meets famous Cotswold sleuth, Agatha Raisin?

New Reviews: Hall, Hill, Lackberg, Owen, Seymour, Tursten

Here are this week's new reviews and details of the current competition:

Latest Reviews:

A big welcome to Amanda Brown whom I met at CrimeFest and who has agreed to review for Euro Crime! In her first review she takes on Simon Hall's The Death Pictures which she writes is "a compelling thriller";

Fiona Walker reviews There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union by Reginald Hill - a collection of six short stories which has just been republished;

I enjoyed The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg but I think other people have enjoyed it more. I found it quite cosy in spite of the nature of some of the crimes that have occurred;

Kerrie Smith reviews Ladies of Class by Marjorie Owen, a traditional village mystery set in the 1960s;

Terry Halligan reviews Timebomb by Gerald Seymour and finds that Seymour's books get better and better

and Maxine continues her Scandinavian crime fiction odyssey with Helene Tursten's The Torso calling it one of the "best police-procedurals I have ever read".


Current Competitions:

Win a copy of The Bellini Card by Jason Goodwin*

* no restrictions on entrants (ends 31 July)