2018 Book Reviews with Links

The A.B.C. Murders – Agatha Christie (1936) 

Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton (1911)

Lady Audley’s Secret – Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1862)

The Lodger – Marie Belloc Lowndes (1913)

The Moving Toyshop – Edmund Crispin (1946)

Off With His Head – Ngaio Marsh (1957)

Our Spoons Came From Woolworths – Barbara Comyns (1950)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark (1961)

Portrait of a Murderer – Anne Meredith (1933)

The Shuttle – Frances Hodgeson Burnett (1907)

A Long Goodbye – Anthony Le Moignan (2018)

And the Birds Kept on Singing – Simon Bourke (2017)

Before I Let You Go – Kelly Rimmer (2018)

Black Rabbit Hall – Eve Chase (2015)

The Brighton Mermaid – Dorothy Koomson (2018)

The Cliff House – Amanda Jennings (2018)

Faking Friends – Jane Fallon (2018)

The Family Next Door – Sally Hepworth (2018)

Flying Shoes – Lisa Howorth (2014)

The Girl in His Eyes – Jennie Ensor (2018)

The Image of You – Adele Parks (2018)

The Last Day – Claire Dyer (2018)

Life After Life – Kate Atkinson (2013)

My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises – Fredrik Backman (2015)

Nine Perfect Strangers – Liane Moriarty (2018)

Only Child – Rhiannon Navin (2018)

The Peacock Summer – Hannah Richell (2018)

The Perfect Affair – Claire Dyer (2014)

Smash All The Windows – Jane Davis (2018)

The Story of Our Lives – Helen Warner (2018)

This is Not a Novel – Jennifer Johnston (2002)

Three Things About Elsie – Joanna Cannon (2018)

The Trick to Time – Kit de Waal (2018)

Turning For Home – Barney Norris (2018)

Us Against You – Fredrik Backman (2018)

A Clubbable Woman – Reginald Hill (1970)

A Double Life – Flynn Berry (2018)

A Jarful of Angels by Babs Horton (2013)

A Patient Fury – Sarah Ward (2017)

A Snapshot of Murder – Frances Brody (2018)

The Arsenic Labyrinth – Martin Edwards (2007)

Broken Bones – Angela Marsons (2017)

Child’s Play – Reginald Hill (1986)

Close to Home – Cara Hunter (2017)

Come A Little Closer – Rachel Abbott (2018)

Come and Find Me – Sarah Hilary (2018)

The Craftsman – Sharon Bolton (2018)

Cry for Help – Steve Mosby (2008)

The Dark Angel – Elly Griffiths (2018)

Dark Waters – Mary-Jane Riley (2018)

Dead If You Don’t – Peter James (2018)

Dead Souls – Angela Marsons (2017)

Don’t Make a Sound – David Jackson (2018)

The Dry – Jane Harper (2017)

The Dying Light – Alison Joseph (1999)

Dying Truth – Angela Marsons (2018)

Fatal Promise – Angela Marsons (2018)

The Girl in the Woods – Camilla Läckberg (2018)

Hell Bay – Kate Rhodes (2018)

I’ll Keep You Safe – Peter May (2018)

In the Dark – Cara Hunter (2018)

The Killing House – Claire McGowan (2018)

Letters from the Dead – Steve Robinson (2018)

The Lighthouse – P.D. James (2005)

The Lost Man – Jane Harper (2018)

Murder in Slow Motion – Rebecca Muddiman (2018)

Murder Mile – Lynda La Plante (2018)

The Murder of Harriet Monckton – Elizabeth Haynes (2018)

Raven Black – Ann Cleeves (2006)

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (2018)

Shoeless Child – J.A. Schneider (2018)

The Shrouded Path – Sarah Ward (2018)

Snap – Belinda Bauer (2018)

Sweet William – Iain Maitland (2017)

Turn a Blind Eye – Vicky Newham (2018)

Wrong Way Home – Isabelle Grey (2018)

31 Bond Street – Ellen Horan (2010)

Blackmail, Sex and Lies – Kathryn McMaster (2017)

Carnegie’s Maid – Marie Benedict (2018)

Crippen: A Novel of a Murder – John Boyne (2004)

Dear Mrs Bird – AJ Pearce (2018)

The Dissent of Annie Lang – Ros Franey (2018)

Fatal Inheritance – Rachel Rhys (2018)

Last Letter Home – Rachel Hore (2018)

Master Georgie – Beryl Bainbridge (1998)

The New Mrs Clifton – Elizabeth Buchan (2016)

The One I Was – Eliza Graham (2015)

Seven Days in May – Kim Izzo (2017)

The Story Keeper – Anna Mazzola (2018)

Three-Martini Lunch – Suzanne Rindell (2016)

Who Killed Little Johnny Gill? – Kathryn McMaster (2016)

The Wicked Cometh – Laura Carlin (2018)

A Fractured Winter – Alison Baillie (2018)

Anatomy of a Scandal – Sarah Vaughan (2018)

And So It Begins – Rachel Abbott (2018)

Bring Me Back – B.A. Paris (2018)

The Death of Mrs Westaway (2018)

The Golden Child – Wendy James (2018)

The House Swap – Rebecca Fleet (2018)

Let Me Lie – Clare Mackintosh (2018)

The Liar’s Room – Simon Lelic (2018)

Lies Between Us – Ronnie Turner (2018)

The Lies We Told – Camilla Way (2018)

Little Liar – Lisa Ballantyne (2018)

The Night She Died – Jenny Blackhurst (2018)

No Further Questions – Gillian McAllister (2018)

Open Your Eyes – Paula Daly (2018)

Our House – Louise Candlish (2018)

Our Kind of Cruelty – Araminta Hall (2018)

Sanctum – Denise Mina (2002)

Sisters of Mercy – Caroline Overington (2011)

Skin Deep – Liz Nugent (2018)

The Stranger Diaries – Elly Griffiths (2018)

Take Me In – Sabine Durrant (2018)

Twin Truths – Shelan Rodger (2018)

Watching You – Lisa Jewell (2018)

When the Lights Go Out – Mary Kubica (2018)

Property – Lionel Shriver (2018)

American Heiress – Jeffrey Toobin (2016)

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading – Lucy Mangan (2018)

Common People – Alison Light (2014)

Conan Doyle for the Defence – Margalit Fox (2018)

Family Secrets – Derek Malcolm (2003)

The Killing of Georgie Moore – Colin Evans (2013)

The Lady in the Cellar – Sinclair McKay (2018)

Love As Always Mum xxx – Mae West (2018)

The Mile End Murder – Spencer McKay (2017)

Mrs Woolf and the Servants – Alison Light (2007)

Murder by the Book – Claire Harman (2018)

My Life in Houses – Margaret Forster (2014)

The Poisoner – Stephen Bates (2014)

The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books – Martin Edwards (2017)

Wedlock – Wendy Moore (2009)


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