Horns by Joe Hill
On a chilly summer morning, one year after the brutal murder of his girlfriend Merrin, Ig Parrish wakes up to find that two small horns have sprouted from his head. He is puzzled as to why they are there, but when he goes to ask people what to do about them they suddenly tell him their deepest, darkest desires. A doctor confesses he’d like to grind up some oxy and snort it. A cop tells him he‘d like to shoot him in the face because […]
The Black Book by Ian Rankin
Inspector John Rebus is having a tough time. His girlfriend, with whom he has recently moved in, has thrown him out, leaving him stranded in his own flat which is now full of students as well as his brother, who has recently been released from prison. To make matters worse, his underling is found in an alley behind an Elvis-themed eatery with a headwound and no idea how he got there. Rebus investigates but is soon thwarted both by his superiors and by a devious […]
Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson
Twenty-something Kate has been holed up in her apartment for too long, so when her distant relative Corbin is willing to swap apartments with her – his place in Boston for hers in London – she seizes the opportunity. However, soon after she arrives she discovers her neighbour has gone missing. But what does it have to do with Corbin? And how is her mysterious neighbour Alan involved? There’s something weird about this book and it’s mostly in the writing. It’s almost as if an […]
Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter
On a balmy spring eve, eighteen year old Emily Vaughn zips herself into her prom dress with some difficulty, then walks over to her high school to confront the people she thought were her friends. It’s 1982 and Emily is about eight months pregnant. Reviled by her classmates, she is soon thrown out of the prom. Emily disappears on her way home; her dead body is found in a dumpster next morning. Some forty years later, US Marshall Andrea Oliver, fresh off the academy, is […]
The Ex by Alafair Burke
Successful but lonely hot shot New York lawyer Olivia receives a frantic call one morning from a young girl, who turns out to be the daughter of Olivia’s ex – the one she never really got over. Olivia rushes to his defense and soon discovers he’s being held as the prime suspect in a spree killing that took place that morning. Olivia, professional and competent, immediately goes on the defense, using everything she has to protect her old friend. But soon, a nagging feeling appears […]
White Bones (Katie Maguire #1) by Graham Masterton
Have you ever seen these pictures of a professional illustrator who let her four year old finish her drawings? That’s exactly what this book is like: it starts off well, a little weird but well done, and then in the second half of the book it’s amateur hour. On steroids. On a remote Irish farm, eleven bodies are discovered: their bones are haphazardly strewn about underneath a barn. Weirdly, each thigh bone has a hole in it with a small doll on a wire looped […]
