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GILLIAN McALLISTER Wrong Place, Wrong Time. Reviewed by Robert Goodman

GILLIAN McALLISTER Wrong Place, Wrong Time. Reviewed by Robert Goodman

by NRB | 28 Jun 2022 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 comments

British crime writer Gillian McAllister’s new novel explores time travel as crime prevention. Time loops are everywhere these days. Groundhog Day might have popularised them (and in doing so entered the popular vernacular) but the narrative conceit has now gone...
Crime Scene: ROSS ARMSTRONG The Watcher. Reviewed by Derek Dryden

Crime Scene: ROSS ARMSTRONG The Watcher. Reviewed by Derek Dryden

by NRB | 19 Jan 2017 | Crime Scene | 0 comments

The Watcher is a dark psychological thriller and a first-rate debut whodunnit. This first novel by English actor and writer Ross Armstrong will no doubt appeal to readers who enjoyed The Girl On the Train. Like that book, it features a heroine cut loose from her...
Crime Scene: EMMA HEALEY Elizabeth is Missing. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

Crime Scene: EMMA HEALEY Elizabeth is Missing. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

by NRB | 2 Oct 2014 | Crime Scene | 0 comments

A crime has been committed and Maud knows this – but what was it? She can’t remember. Eighty-two-year-old Maud Horsham is losing her memory. But some things are firmly stuck in her mind – the most important being that her friend Elizabeth is missing. She knows this...
Crime Scene: PD VINER The Last Winter of Dani Lancing; LESLEY THOMSON The Detective’s Daughter. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

Crime Scene: PD VINER The Last Winter of Dani Lancing; LESLEY THOMSON The Detective’s Daughter. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

by NRB | 23 Jan 2014 | Crime Scene

The not always benign power of memory, and the vagaries of coincidence: these two recent British crime novels are shining examples of the flexibility of the genre. Every now and then crime novels come along that bend the genre and take it into new possibilities. The...
             

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