The Redemption Of Charm is one knockout of a thriller and a most satisfying conclusion to the Killing Sisters trilogy. In it, all the intrigue, betrayals, and double-crosses that commenced in A Last Act Of Charity are peeled away through JJ’s relentless search for answers to the questions haunting him since he discovered he was…
There’s so much going on in this high-tech, hard-wired thriller that it’s tough to pin it all down. Corporate espionage, social engineering and black-hat tradecraft set the scene, but the core of the story boils down to desperate moments of ephemeral intimacy between old friends – people using cutting edge tech and serious combat skills…
Take an Aztec priest and plonk him down in a small town in southern England, ready to start sacrificing the sad, the lonely and the unloved. What a brilliant premise. Better yet – give him a killer octopus! I’m obviously a sucker for a good gimmick, and this bizarre set-up certainly makes The Repenting Serpent…
The MMM Christmas survival guide: send everyone else to a party or the pub. Turn off all devices (apart from ereaders, obvs). Light candles. Raid emergency snack stash. Snuggle up on sofa with a brilliant book. And in case you need inspiration for that last item, here’s our round-up of recent releases in the crime/thriller…
Is your best friend a bookworm? Is your partner addicted to crime fiction? Does someone in your family adore Nordic noir? If so, here’s the perfect Christmas present: a gripping crime-thriller, signed by the author with a personalised message, gift-wrapped and delivered to the recipient’s door. That’s Christmas sorted – leaves more time for you…
Psychic spy Tana Standish has a habit of appearing slap-bang in the middle of the most significant historical upheavals of the 20th century. This time she’s in Afghanistan in 1979, providing intel for the British secret intelligence service, running interference for freedom fighters, side-stepping a Soviet plot to kidnap her, liberating victims of oppression, avenging…
It’s brilliant when an established author comes out biting, gouging and punching below the belt with a revitalised zest for telling a rip-snorting story. That’s pretty much what’s happened here, with this new standalone thriller from one of the genre’s heavy hitters. Although I find forensic anthropology and the scientific analysis of crime scenes fascinating,…
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II. MARCHE FUNEBRE Jean-Jacques ‘JJ’ Stoner is a stone cold killer. His creator, Frank Westworth gives us a first glimpse of him as an army sergeant serving in Iraq. One of his squad has just been fatally wounded by a knife thrown by one of a group of Iraqis who: “…..…
If this book were a piece of ordinance it would have a carefully calibrated, slow burn fuse snaking around its characters. It would gather pace, lighting the way to its explosive finale. It is brilliantly crafted, full of the sharp dialogue, wit and action that makes the author’s writing so compelling. This, third, Killing Sisters…
Hold on to your seats for this one. If you were to combine the Jack Reacher series of novels with the ‘Kill Bill’ films by Quentin Tarantino you would just scratch the surface of Frank Westworth’s ‘A Last Act Of Charity’. JJ Stoner has spent most of his adult life as a killer. It…
