2017 Book Reviews with Links

Winter Garden – Beryl Bainbridge (1981)

2017-contemporary-fiction

All The Good Things – Clare Fisher (2017)

Dear Mr M – Herman Koch (2016)

The Doll Funeral – Kate Hamer (2017)

Go To Sleep – Helen Walsh (2011)

Greatest Hits – Laura Barnett (2017)

The Heart’s Invisible Furies – John Boyne (2017)

The Judge’s Wife – Ann O’Loughlin (2016)

The Missing Girl – Jenny Quintana (2017)

My Sweet Revenge – Jane Fallon (2017)

Not A Sound – Heather Gudenkauf (2017)

One Day in December – Shari Low (2017)

The People at Number 9 – Felicity Everett (2017)

The Other Us – Fiona Harper (2017)

Relativity – Antonia Hayes (2016)

Room – Emma Donoghue (2010)

The Solitary Child – Nina Bawden (1958)

The Stranger – Saskia Sarginson (2016)

The Summer House – Santa Montefiore (2012)

That Girl From Nowhere – Dorothy Koomson (2015)

The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde (2017)

review-flourish

crime-fiction-2017

A Talent For Murder – Andrew Wilson (2017)

A Time For Silence – Thorne Moore (2012)

After She Fell – Mary-Jane Riley (2016)

Angels in the Moonlight (2017)

Are You Watching Me? – Sinéad Crowley (2015)

Before the Poison – Peter Robinson (2011)

The Blackbird Season – Kate Moretti (2017)

Blood Tide – Claire McGowan (2017)

Bones and Silence – Reginald Hill (1990)

Boy A – Jonathan Trigell (2004)

Broken Heart – Tim Weaver (2016)

The Chalk Pit – Elly Griffiths (2017)

The Cipher Garden – Martin Edwards (2005)

Cold, Cold Heart – Christine Poulson (2017)

Cut Short – Leigh Russell (2009)

The Day That Never Comes – Caimh McDonnell (2017)

Dead Woman Walking – Sharon Bolton (2017)

Death in the Stars – Frances Brody (2017)

Death Knocks Twice – Robert Thorogood (2017)

Dying Games – Steve Robinson (2017)

Flowers for the Dead – Barbara Copperthwaite (2015)

Frost at Midnight – James Henry (2017)

Good Friday – Lynda La Plante (2017)

Hope to Die – David Jackson (2017)

The Ice Child – Camilla Lackberg (2016)

In Deep Water – Sam Blake (2017)

The Last Thread – Ray Britain (2017)

The Legacy – Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (2017)

Let The Dead Speak – Jane Casey (2017)

Little Deaths – Emma Flint (2017)

The Long Drop – Denise Mina (2017)

Love Like Blood – Mark Billingham (2017)

The Monster in the Box – Ruth Rendell (2009)

Murder is Easy – Agatha Christie (1939)

Need You Dead – Peter James (2017)

One Bad Turn – Sinéad Crowley (2017)

Past Tense – Margot Kinberg (2016)

Persons Unknown – Susie Steiner (2017)

Quieter Than Killing – Sarah Hilary (2017)

Redemption – Jill McGown (1988)

The Restless Dead – Simon Beckett (2017)

Rush of Blood – Mark Billingham (2012)

Saturday Requiem – Nicci French (2016)

The Scandal – Fredrik Backman (2017)

Sewing The Shadows Together – Alison Baillie (2015)

Silent Voices – Ann Cleeves (2011)

Simon Said – Sarah R Shaber (2004)

The Sixth Window – Rachel Abbott (2017)

The Special Girls – Isabelle Grey (2017)

Sunday Morning is Coming Down – Nicci French (2017)

Sweet Little Lies – Caz Frear (2017)

Three Days and a Life – Pierre Lemaitre (2017)

The Vanishing Box – Elly Griffiths (2017)

Verdict of Twelve – Raymond Postgate (1940)

Want You Gone – Chris Brookmyre (2017)

When a Killer Strikes – R.C. Bridgestock (2017)

You Don’t Know Me – Imran Mahmood (2017)

review-flourish

historical-fiction-2017

Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood (1996)

The Conversations We Never Had – Jeffrey H Konis (2016)

A Dangerous Crossing – Rachel Rhys (2017)

A Life Between Us – Louise Walters (2017)

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne (2007)

The Dress Thief – Natalie Meg Evans (2014)

The Good People – Hannah Kent (2017)

The Island – Victoria Hislop (2005)

The Other Mrs Walker – Mary Paulson-Ellis (2016)

The Other Typist – Suzanne Rindell (2013)

The Scent of Murder – Felicity Young (2014)

See What I Have Done – Sarah Schmidt (2017)

The Sewing Machine – Natalie Fergie (2017)

Shelter – Sarah Franklin (2017)

What Remains Behind – Dorothy Fowler (2009)

When the Sky Fell Apart – Caroline Lea (2017)

review-flourish

psyhologicl-thriller-2017

An Act of Silence – Colette McBeth (2017)

Anything For Her – G.J. Minett (2017)

Anything You Do Say – Gillian McAllister (2017)

Behind Her Eyes – Sarah Pinborough (2017)

Blood Sisters – Jane Corry (2017)

The Child – Fiona Barton (2017)

Did You See Melody? – Sophie Hannah (2017)

The Escape – C.L. Taylor (2017)

Everything But The Truth – Gillian McAllister (2017)

The Foster Child – Jenny Blackhurst (2017)

Give Me The Child – Melanie McGrath (2017)

Good Me, Bad Me – Ali Land (2017)

He Said/She Said – Erin Kelly (2017)

Her Deadly Secret – Chris Curran (2017)

Her Every Fear – Peter Swanson (2017)

His Kidnapper’s Shoes – Maggie James (2013)

The House – Simon Lelic (2017)

The Housekeeper – Suellen Dainty (2017)

Her Husband’s Lover – Julia Crouch (2017)

The Killer on the Wall – Emma Kavanagh (2017)

Little Sister – Isabel Ashdown (2017)

Lost in the Lake – A.J. Waines (2017)

The Lying Game – Ruth Ware (2017)

Mother Knows Best – Netta Newbound (2014)

My Last Confession – Helen FitzGerald (2011)

Never Alone – Elizabeth Haynes (2016)

The Night Visitor – Lucy Atkins (2017)

Painkiller – N.J. Fountain (2016)

She Did It – Mel Sherratt (2017)

Tattletale – Sarah J Naughton (2017)

Then She Was Gone – Lisa Jewell (2017)

They All Fall Down – Tammy Cohen (2017)

The Trophy Child – Paula Daly (2017)

What Remains of Me – Alison Gaylin (2016)

White Bodies – Jane Robins (2017)

review-flourish

Blackwater Lake – Maggie James (2015)

Death of a Cuckoo – Wendy Percival (2017)

review-flourish
2017-short-stories

CWA Anthology: The Mystery Tour (2017)

The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth – William Boyd (2017)

Left for Dead – Jane Casey (2013)

Promises to Keep – Elizabeth Haynes (2014)

The Thirteen Problems – Agatha Christie (1932)

The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)

A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie – Kathryn Harkup (2015)

The Adversary –Emmanuel Carrère (2017)

Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century – Peter Graham (2013)

The Book of Forgotten Authors – Christopher Fowler (2017)

The Doctor’s Wife is Dead – Andrew Tierney (2017)

The Fact of a Body – Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich  (2017)

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote (1966)

The Many Deaths of Mary Dobie – David Hastings (2015)

Midnight in Peking – Paul French (2013)

Poison Panic – Helen Barrell (2016)

The Ripper of Waterloo Road – Jan Bondeson (2017)

The Spider and the Fly – Claudia Rowe (2017)

Stranger in the House – Julie Summers (2008)

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