Two Brilliant Thrillers and One Fantastic Mystery!
The Missing Hour by Robert Rutherford
I ripped through Robert Rutherford’s first book, Seven Days, and so was over the moon to be approved for The Missing Hour on NetGalley.
Maggie’s husband dies while in police custody having been arrested for a murder Maggie is certain he doesn’t commit. When his DNA is found at the crime scene, she is the only one who believes in his innocence. Maggie sets off on a hair-raising and dangerous crusade across the country to try and clear her dead husband’s name.
The Missing Hour is a tense, thrilling ride and you won’t be able to turn the pages fast enough. Amidst the dizzying twists and turns though, is a book about trust, grief, betrayal and loyalty. If you like your thrillers complex, this is the book for you!
Burying Jericho by William Hussey
Burying Jericho is the third book in crime fiction’s first traveller detective series; a series I have loved since Book One and I am pleased to say this one completely blew my mind!
Scott Jericho travels to a rundown seaside town to investigate the case of a missing man. What he finds there is unlike anything Jericho has ever come across before and as he slowly untangles a web of deceit he realises he’s about to reveal long-buried secrets.
This book has it all: local legends, a wise woman who’s not quite all there, eerie waxworks, secrets, lies and a tangled web of secrets.
This books feels like Hussey has taken a giant stride forwards, both in terms of writing and in terms of developing Jericho’s character and relationships. My brain was constantly engage while I was reading, trying to work it all out and the resolution was definitely one I did not see coming.
I have to talk about the ending, but I can’t without giving away any spoilers! So I’ll tell you this instead, I cannot wait for Book Four!
The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani
Lucas Cole is a well-loved, best-selling author. He’s also a serial killer and his son, Nathan, has known it since he was ten years old. Nathan is forced to return home after seventeen years, when his father in found dead in a motel room. In his childhood home he finds his father’s final, unpublished, book: a fictionalised account of his awful crimes. Now Nathan must find a missing child and deal with the consequences of keeping his father’s secret.
I LOVE serial killer books. Call me weird, call me unhinged, call me whatever you like, but diving head first into a book about serial killers has me hooked. Sometimes though, the problem is they’re just a bit too tame for my liking. Not so with The Midnight King. This book had me in a vice-like grip from the very first page to the very last. There were times I found myself holding my breath and others were my eyes were skipping over the words in my eagerness to find out what happened next.
If you like dark books about serial killers, this is definitely a book you’re going to want to read!