The bond between twins is a fascinating thing, and not all aspects of it can be explained by science. In this gripping thriller, Russell James explores what happens when a pair of twins start out disadvantaged - by a mother who drank and took drugs while they were in the womb - and are then adopted separately. One of them, Brian, is the protagonist of the book and unaware that he ever had a twin. When he developed severe anxiety as a child, his adoptive parents took him to ge

The second of a pair of books (the first one is Rattle) about a deranged serial killer who calls himself The Collector, this one picks up apparently right after the first leaves off. First thing I have to say is that I haven’t read Rattle, but I do think you can get away with reading this one as a standalone as everything is well covered without infodumping and Fiona Cummins does a fantastic job of deep-diving into character psyches. The Collector is obsessed with the physica

Having read and reviewed A Merciful Silence back in January and thoroughly enjoyed it, I jumped at the chance to read this next book in the series. This time around, past and present collide for FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick when five skeletons are found with injuries identical to those seen in cases of murdered families two decades ago. The crimes were so brutal nobody could ever forget, but the perpetrator was caught… wasn’t he? The only survivor remembers nothing of that nigh

Having reviewed Serial K in my capacity as a professional reviewer for Online Book Club (see that review here), I was interested enough in tearing the sequel to pick this up during a free promotion. Serial K was a book ripe with potential; a serial killer whose ‘signature’ is killings in homage to other famous serials was a fascinating premise for a villain and the ex-husband and wife FBI team in pursuit had a great dynamic. However, I also stated that Serial K was in serious

The Innocent Wife is Amy Lloyd’s debut novel, and it’s an absolute cracker. If you’ve enjoyed the Netflix series Making A Murderer or Mindhunters, you’ll be absolutely riveted by this fictional tale of a lonely woman who begins writing to a man on Death Row she firmly believes to be innocent. After watching a TV series about Dennis Danson, Samantha becomes just one of many convinced he was innocent of the horrible murder of a young girl of which he was convicted. There are to

My mother is a big fan of the true crime genre, and I've always read everything I could get my hands on, so I've read plenty of books about serial killers both real and fictional. Serial K by Brian Gallagher is an intriguing addition to the genre; a fictional tale of a serial killer whose 'signature' is copycat killings based on the work of other infamous serial killers. The story is told from the alternating viewpoints of the killer himself and the two principal FBI agents t