According to Chinese tradition, 2016 is the Year of the Monkey—but for thriller fans, it could turn out to be the Year of the Drake. After publishing three thrillers between 2006 and 2008 (Don’t Be Afraid, The Next Killing, and The Dead Place), Rebecca Drake is back and better than ever, after an eight-year hiatus,…
Without Trace is the first in a series of crime novels featuring single mother Morgan Vine, an investigative journalist who lives in a converted railway carriage on the beach at Dungeness in Kent. Although she and I could hardly be more different, we share several characteristics, including: A love of isolated, eerie landscape. A sense of…
My attention is drawn by the books that line the shelves in the bookcase below the map. I stand stiffly and go to take a look. There are reference books. An Oxford English dictionary, a thesaurus, a large encyclopaedia. A dictionary of quotations. Then rows of cheap paperbacks, crime and romance, vegetarian cooking, recipes from…
