Author Archives: djpaterson

About djpaterson

Reader, Writer, Arithmeticer. Not always in that order.

Review: Dark Pines, by Will Dean

Posted on Saturday, 26 January, 2019 by djpaterson

SEE NO EVIL Eyes missing, two bodies lie deep in the forest near a remote Swedish town. HEAR NO EVIL Tuva Moodyson, a deaf reporter on a small-time local paper, is looking for the story that could make her career. … Continue reading →

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Review: Trust Me, by Angela Clarke

Posted on Thursday, 24 January, 2019 by djpaterson

YOU SAW IT HAPPEN. DIDN’T YOU? What do you do if you witness a crime…but no-one believes you? When Kate sees a horrific attack streamed live on her laptop, she calls the police in a state of shock. But when … Continue reading →

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Review: The Third Wave, by Karla Forbes

Posted on Friday, 18 January, 2019 by djpaterson

Charles Morgan is a small operator in the vast computer technology industry but he has big ambitions. He borrows heavily from the Mafia to finance his dreams of becoming a big player but when he fails to make the expected … Continue reading →

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Review: Guarded Prognosis, by Richard L. Mabry MD

Posted on Friday, 28 December, 2018 by djpaterson

When Dr. Caden Taggart saw the two men sitting in his waiting room, he didn’t think they were patients. He was right, and when they introduced themselves as agents of the Drug Enforcement Agency, things started to get bad. Then … Continue reading →

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Book Review: A Murder of Crows, by Ian Skewis

Posted on Tuesday, 18 December, 2018 by djpaterson

  I listened to this on audiobook through http://www.audiobook.com, read by the author himself. Here’s the blurb: The most violent thunderstorm in living memory occurs above a sleepy village on the West Coast of Scotland. A young couple take shelter … Continue reading →

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Review: Don’t Make a Sound, by David Jackson

Posted on Monday, 12 November, 2018 by djpaterson

You can’t choose your family. Or can you? Meet the Bensons. They’re an ordinary couple. They wash their car, mow their lawn and pass the time of day with their neighbours. And they have a beautiful little girl called Daisy. … Continue reading →

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Review: Exit Strategy, by Colleen Cross

Posted on Sunday, 11 November, 2018 by djpaterson

  Diamonds, Danger, and Disappearance A Katerina Carter Legal Thriller Out of work and running out of money, private investigator and fraud expert Katerina Carter desperately needs more clients or she’ll be forced to go crawling back to a cubicle … Continue reading →

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Review: Seek and Destroy, by Alan McDermott

Posted on Tuesday, 6 November, 2018 by djpaterson

  She got away once. They can’t let it happen again. Eva Driscoll is on the run. She has a new identity, and the best part of $20m liberated from the CIA. Henry Langton is dead but his sinister allies … Continue reading →

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Review: Lost and Found, by JL Simpson

Posted on Friday, 26 October, 2018 by djpaterson

Hot on the success of her first case, British female sleuth Daisy Dunlop can count the offers of work on one finger. An empty bank account and the need to prove to her business partner, private investigator Solomon Liffey, that … Continue reading →

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Review: Devil’s Kitchen, by Stephen Puleston

Posted on Tuesday, 16 October, 2018 by djpaterson

How far would you go for the one you love? It is Inspector Ian Drake’s first murder case and he’s keen to do a good job and impress his superiors. When the body of man and a woman are found … Continue reading →

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Review: Fallout, by Karla Forbes

Posted on Friday, 12 October, 2018 by djpaterson

The British government is being blackmailed by criminals who got their hands on a quantity of plutonium left over from the Cold War. There is only one man who knows their identity and can prevent a disaster, but he is … Continue reading →

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Review: Mortom, by Erik Therme

Posted on Tuesday, 25 September, 2018 by djpaterson

Andy Crowl barely knew his recently deceased cousin, Craig Moore, so he’s especially surprised to be named as the sole beneficiary in Craig’s will. Not that there’s much to inherit: just an empty bank account and a run-down house. Once … Continue reading →

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Just Read… Run and Hide, by Alan McDermott

Posted on Wednesday, 22 August, 2018 by djpaterson

  Eva Driscoll is used to chasing down bad guys, but now the bad guys are chasing her. She knows they won’t stop until she’s dead. After her brother is killed in a faked suicide, Driscoll teams up with ex-soldier … Continue reading →

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Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival – Harrogate!

Posted on Wednesday, 25 July, 2018 by djpaterson

This was my first Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival (known simply as ‘Harrogate’). And this small fact seemed to come as a surprise to nearly everyone who I mentioned it to, probably because I’m a familiar face at so … Continue reading →

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Just Read… Come and Find Me, by Sarah Hilary

Posted on Thursday, 19 July, 2018 by djpaterson

On the surface, Lara Chorley and Ruth Hull have nothing in common, other than their infatuation with Michael Vokey. Each is writing to a sadistic inmate, sharing her secrets, whispering her worst fears, craving his attention. DI Marnie Rome understands … Continue reading →

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