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Here you’ll find our fiction reviews listed by genre, and then alphabetically by author. On this page are Mystery book reviews.

Alternatively you can search for a book in our A – Z Authors we also have a Non Fiction section and a Children/Young Adult section.

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Book Reviews

Books are listed alphabetically by author. All the reviews on this page are Mystery books, you can use the drop down menu below to filter through to find a more specific type of book you’re after.

Bob Mortimer – The Satsuma Complex

December 5, 2022

Christine Pride and Jo Piazza – We Are Not Like Them

June 14, 2022

Susanna Flavius – The Powers that Be: Sudden Tragedy to Success and Divine Transformation

November 17, 2021

Colson Whitehead – Harlem Shuffle

November 4, 2021

Peter Heller – The Guide

October 27, 2021

Charlotte McConaghy – Once There Were Wolves

October 6, 2021

Chris Whitaker – We Begin at the End

September 9, 2021

Claire Fuller – Unsettled Ground

September 3, 2021

Phoebe Wynne – Madam

August 31, 2021

James Ellroy – Widespread Panic

August 23, 2021

Chris Harding Thornton – Pickard County Atlas

April 7, 2021

Agatha Christie – And Then There Were None

March 15, 2021

Una Mannion – A Crooked Tree

March 15, 2021

Raza Mir – Murder at the Mushaira

March 5, 2021

Aditi Krishnakumar – Murder In Melucha

February 12, 2021

Stephen Alter – Feral Dreams: Mowgli & His Mothers

January 30, 2021

S.A. Cosby – Blacktop Wasteland

January 22, 2021

R. Giridharan – Right Under Your Nose

December 18, 2020

Bella Ellis – The Diabolical Bones

November 20, 2020

Luc Leruth & Jean Drèze – Rumble in a Village

October 21, 2020

Glendy Vanderah – Where the Forest meets the Stars

September 15, 2020

Agatha Christie – Endless Night

August 10, 2020

Rhiannon Ward – The Quickening

July 26, 2020

Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Mexican Gothic

July 19, 2020

S.K. Sheridan – Holy Lies: Part One (Broken Vows)

July 2, 2020

Jane Harper – The Lost Man

June 29, 2020

Lucy Foley – The Guest List

June 14, 2020

Anne Cleeves – Vera Stanhope series

May 29, 2020

Anna Katharine Green – The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange

May 27, 2020

Liz Nugent – Our Little Cruelties

May 8, 2020

Neil Blackmore – The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle

May 8, 2020

C. A. Newsome – A Shot in the Bark

April 19, 2020

Ruth Ware – In a Dark, Dark Wood

April 19, 2020

M. T. Edvardsson – A Nearly Normal Family

March 12, 2020

Ruskin Bond – Rhododendrons in the Mist: My Favourite Tales of the Himalaya

March 6, 2020

James Sallis – Sarah Jane

February 15, 2020

Chandler Baker – Whisper Network

January 29, 2020

Emma Donoghue – Akin

January 9, 2020

Umberto Eco – The Prague Cemetery

October 20, 2019

Richard Russo – Chances Are

October 18, 2019

Jessie Burton – The Confession

October 18, 2019

James Ellroy – This Storm

October 16, 2019

Maria Semple – Where’d You Go, Bernadette?

October 15, 2019

Andrea Bobotis – The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt

September 10, 2019

Alex Marwood – The Poison Garden

September 8, 2019

Steve Cavanagh – Thirteen

September 8, 2019

Tana French – The Witch Elm

September 6, 2019

Lesley Kara – The Rumour

August 16, 2019

Julia Phillips – Disappearing Earth

August 14, 2019

Liv Constantine – The last Mrs Parrish

July 6, 2019

Dave Eggers – The Parade

June 17, 2019

Joy Ellis – The Guilty Ones

June 7, 2019

Laila Lalami – The Other American

June 7, 2019

Renee Knight – The Secretary

May 11, 2019

Peter Heller – The River

May 6, 2019

David Mark – Dark Winter

May 6, 2019

Alex Michaelides – The Silent Patient

May 5, 2019

Caroline Kepnes – You

April 4, 2019

Stuart James – Turn the Other Way

April 3, 2019

Julie Cohen – Together

February 6, 2019

Stephen King – Elevation

February 6, 2019

Christina Dalcher – Vox

February 5, 2019

Adele Parks – I Invited Her In

February 4, 2019

Elizabeth Haynes – Into the Darkest Corner

February 2, 2019

Sarah St. Vincent – Ways To Hide In Winter

February 2, 2019

Oyinkan Braithwaite – My Sister the Serial Killer

February 2, 2019

Ruskin Bond – Captain Young’s Ghost

February 2, 2019

Peter James – Absolute Proof

December 26, 2018

Ragnar Jónasson – The Darkness

December 25, 2018

R.O. Kwon – The Incendiaries

December 25, 2018

Delia Owens – Where the Crawdads Sing

December 25, 2018

Søren Sveistrup – The Chestnut Man

December 19, 2018

Robert Galbraith – Lethal White

November 6, 2018

Marsali Taylor – Death On A Longship

October 3, 2018

T. Greenwood – Rust and Stardust

October 2, 2018

E.R. Punshon – Information Received

October 1, 2018

William Gay – The Lost Country

September 20, 2018

Brian Trent – Ten Thousand Thunders

September 18, 2018

Rea Frey – Not Her Daughter

September 13, 2018

Jorn Lier Horst – The Katharina Code

September 9, 2018

Andrew Shaffer – Hope Never Dies

September 9, 2018

Ashwin Sanghi – Keepers of the Kalachakra

August 2, 2018

Stephen King – The Outsider

August 2, 2018

K.L. Slater – The Secret

July 31, 2018

Jo Nesbo – Macbeth

July 13, 2018

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child – City of Endless Night

June 20, 2018

Seema Goswami – Race Course Road

May 31, 2018

Kalpana Swaminathan – Murder in Seven Acts

May 23, 2018

David Mamet – Chicago

May 14, 2018

Kent Anderson – Green Sun

April 20, 2018

Margaret Atwood – Cat’s Eye

April 10, 2018

Dan Brown – Origin

April 10, 2018

Jo Nesbo – The Leopard

April 10, 2018

Jussi Adler-Olsen – The Keeper of Lost Causes

April 7, 2018

Margaret Atwood – Alias Grace

March 28, 2018

Shalini Boland – The Secret Mother

March 18, 2018

Janelle Harris – See Me Not

March 7, 2018

Laura Marshall – Friend Request

March 7, 2018

Eric Ambler – Cause for Alarm

March 5, 2018

Jane Harper – Force of Nature

March 5, 2018