So many genres, so little time
The mind is a strange beast...extraordinary, unpredictable, protective. Penny Osborn's mind is no exception. In High School, Penny witnessed a massacre and lost her father to the same killers. She had seen it unfold before it happened, in a premonition, but could not prevent it. A college research project at the edge of the Arctic… Continue reading Inside Voices by Sarah Davis
Greg Adams, a criminal psychologist at Scotland Yard, specialises in bringing serial killers to justice. He tracks down a spree serial killer nicknamed the Divine, who has already killed six teenage girls and is about to kill a seventh. Greg works out the location where he is hiding and joins a raid. The police capture… Continue reading The Dead Tell Lies by J.F. Kirwan
A florist, an estate agent, a prostitute, a call centre operative, a wife and mother. What could possibly link them all? A love of flowers. That was a start. A skilled florist, who uses his produce and charm to select his beautiful victims. Compliance is a must. You will be bound, you will be kept,… Continue reading Whispers In the Wine Cellar by Keeley Webb
Serial killers are secretive animals. They keep their deeds to themselves and hope never to be found. But there’s a new man in town—a killer who warns people in advance he’s going to kill them, then does it, in a variety of unusual, even bizarre, ways. Ex-policeman Ben Buckland wants to catch this man not… Continue reading I May Kill You by Keith Dixon
Detective Alyssa Wyatt is hunting a serial killer. She doesn’t know that he’s hunting her. A woman is found naked, badly beaten and barely alive in the New Mexico mountains. The shocking discovery plunges Albuquerque Detective Alyssa Wyatt into a case that will test her to the limit. It appears that Callie McCormick is the latest… Continue reading All His Pretty Girls (Alyssa Wyatt #1) by Charly Cox
A murder with all the trappings of an occult sacrifice. It’s DC Kate O’Connell’s first case. Will it also be her last? Keen to prove herself to her superiors Kate fights to break through the lies that surround the victim’s life. But the ritualistic nature of the crime dredges up disturbing memories of a past… Continue reading The Upper Hand (DC O’Connell #1) by A.L. Fraine
It was meant to be a harmless adventure…or so he thought.  When a ten-year-old boy playing hooky from school sees a young woman’s body hanging from a tree, a man at the scene gives chase. Still recovering from near fatal injuries, Jack Mason is sent to investigate. He knows the boy’s life is in danger,… Continue reading Chameleon (DCI Jack Mason #4) by Michael K Foster
DI Alan Williams is called to the recovery of two bodies from the sea at Trearddur Bay, during a storm. The lifeboat crew suspect they’re fishermen, washed away by a wave but they’re wrong. Alan and his detective sergeant, Kim Davies, realise the men were beaten and tied together before they entered the water. Two… Continue reading Unholy Island (Anglesey Murders #1) by Conrad Jones
I started my book review blog in 2009 and I have read so many outstanding books that I wanted to share them again with my followers on #SegueSaturday. I first posted this review in July 2010. It caught my eye because it is a series about a female serial killer, and boy, is she nasty. … Continue reading Heartsick (Archie & Gretchen #1) by Chelsea Cain
Bar Jonah liked to break his victims. To create a fissure in their being that would last a lifetime so that when the thin-membrane scar of the crevasse was ruptured, the hydra would re-emerge and consume them once again from the inside out. At least with one victim however, he not only broke him, he… Continue reading Eat the Evidence (Book One of the Bar Jonah Trilogy) by John E. Espy, Ph.D.