Reviews
November 1997
Burning Bright
by Jay Russell
The Wire In The Blood
by Val McDermid
Bad Chilli
by Joe R. Lansdale
Fourth Attempt and Fifth Member
by Claire Rayner
Felix In The Underworld
by John Mortimer
The Power to Harm: Mind, Murder and Drugs on Trial
by John Cornwell
The Jigsaw Man
by Paul Britton
Governing Body
by Anne Wilson
Burning Issues
by Maggie Kelly
10lb Penalty
by Dick Francis
The Inner Sanctum
by Stephen Frey



FROM OUR NEW NON-CRIME SECTION
Sporting Relations
by Roger McGough
Cattitudes from A-Z
by Elizabeth King Brownd
The Time Out Travel Guides
The Tulip Touch
by Anne Fine
Bad Bad Cats
by Roger McGough



That Angel Look
by Mike Ripley
The Soft Detective
by H.R.F. Keating
 The Arms Of Nemesis
by Stephen Saylor
A Murder On The Appian Way
by Stephen Saylor
Thought for the Day
by David Armstrong
Agatha's Christie's Hercule Poirot
by Anne Hart
The Lost Get-Back Boogie
by James Lee Burke
And None shall Sleep
by Priscilla Masters
The Flower Net
by Lisa See
 Bad Monday
by Annette Roome
 The Leper Colony
by Ron McKay
 Unatural Acts
by Dylan Jones
 Rhode Island Red
by Charlotte Carter
 The Monkey's Mask
by Dorothy Porter
 Hung Jury
by Rankin Davis
 Top Banana
by Bill James
October 1997
 Unnatural Exposure
 by Patricia Cornwell.
  Dead in the Market
by David Williams
 Giovanni’s Gift
by Bradford Morrow
 Victims
by Robert Richardson
 Perils of the Night
by Patricia Hall
 Shakespearean Whodunnits
(ed) by Mike Ashley
 The Name of a Bullfighter
by Luis Sepulveda
 Nightmare City
by Nick Oldham
 Scalpel
by Paul Carson
 Java Spider by Geoffrey Archer
September 1997
 Confession
by Nicholas Rhea
 Germanicus
by David Wishart
 Dimitri and the Milk Drinkers
by Michael Pearce
 The Book of Dead Authors
by Emlyn Rees
 The Crediton Killing
by Michael Jecks
 The Rose Demon
by PC Doherty
 Still Water
by John Harvey
 Let There be Blood
by Jane Jakeman
August 1997
 Airtight Willie and Me
by Iceberg Slim
 Dead Right
by Peter Robinson
 The Trapdoor
by Andrew Klavan
 Hearts and Bones
by Margaret Lawrence
 The Satisfaction House
by Ray Bryant
 Death under Par
   by Dennis Casley
 An Inconsiderate Death
by Betty Rowlands
 The Last Six Million Seconds
by John Burdett
 Playing for Thrills
by Wang Shou
 Virgin Heat
by Lawrence Shames
 Panicking Ralph
by Bill James
 No Place Of Safety
by Robert Barnard
 The Usual Suspects
by Christopher McQuarrie
 The Second Wycliffe Omnibus
by W. J. Burley
A Multitude of Sins
by Pauline Bell
Mary's Prayer
by Martin Waites
As Time Goes By
by Stephen Bogart
The Killing of Sally Deemer
by Christopher Lee
Sterner Stuff
by John Penn
Intensive Care
by Leah Ruth Robinson
July 1997
 Nocturne
by Ed McBain
The Drowning Mark
by Alan Scholefield
 The Secret of Prisoner 1167-
Was This Man Jack The Ripper?
  by James Tully
 A Monstrous Regiment of Women
by Laurie R King
 She Must have Known
by Brian Masters
 Kat Scratch Fever
by Karen Kijewski
June 1997
 Blood Proof
by Bill Knox
 Hot Toddy
by Frank Palmer
 Out of Reach
by Elizabeth McGregor
 No Birds Sing
by Jo Bannister
 Death of a Red Mandarin
by Christopher West
 A Test of Wills
by Charles Todd
 London Blues
 by Anthony Frewin
The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes
by Donald Thomas
 A Word after Dying
by Anne Granger
 The Travelling Dead
by Brian Cooper
 Cul-de-Sac
by David Martin
 The Dancing Face
by Mike Philips
 Three Hands in the Fountain
by Lindsey Davis
 The Spider's Web
By Peter Tremayne
May 1997
Christie Collection (the First Six Titles)
by Agatha Christie
The Cat who Tailed a Thief
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Death on the Douro by Tony Aspler
Gone Fishin' by Walter Mosley
Jane and the Man of the Cloth and
Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by
Stephanie Barron
Jello Salad by Nicholas Blincoe
April 1997
Knife Edge
by Shaun Hutson
The Lover Of The Grave
by Andrew Taylor
A Public Body & A Fine Body of Men
by Raymond Flynn
The Eve of Destruction
by Martin Edwards
Goodnight, My Angel
by Margaret Murphy
Out Of The Blue
by Steven Knight
The Dead Of Winter
by Paula Gosling
Asking For Trouble
by Ann Granger
March 1997
In Kensington Gardens Once...
by H.R.F.Keating
Body Politic
by J.M.Gregson
The Two Bear Mambo
by Joe R.Lansdale
The Soft Talkers
by Margaret Millar
Dark Debts
by Karen Hall
Bird Dog
by Philip Reed
The Love of Gods
by Alan Hunter
Exit the Milkman
by Charlotte MacLeod
Blood Waters
by Chaz Brenchley
A Surfeit of Guns
by P.F. Chisholm
Perfectly Criminal
Ed. by Martin Edwards
Suddenly as a Shadow
by Roy Lewis
Upon a Dark Night
by Peter Lovesey
Omens of Death
by Nicholas Rhea
February 1997
Cancelled Czech
by Lawrence Block
The Bone Collector
by Jeffrey Deaver
The Parker Omnibus Volume 1
by Richard Stark
January 1997
The Lair
by Emma Cave
Trunk Music
by Michael Connelly
Abuse of Process
by Rankin Davis
Popcorn
by Ben Elton
Death at the Devil's Tavern
by Deryn Lake
The Fig Tree Murder
by Micheal Pearce
An Image to Die for
by Mike Phillips
Black and Blue
by Ian Rankin
The Four Last Things
by Andrew Taylor
The Barred Window
by Andrew Taylor
Our Father's Lies
by Scott Turrow