Geoffrey Wansell

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Thrillers you won't want to miss

2 days ago | dailymail.co.uk | Geoffrey Wansell

Thrillers you won't want to miss: The Girl in Cell A By Vaseem Khan, The Man Made of Smoke By Alex North, Sweet Fury By Sash BischoffBy GEOFFREY WANSELL Published: 07:58 EDT, 13 May 2025 | Updated: 07:58 EDT, 13 May 2025 The Girl in Cell A By Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton £20, 592pp)Eighteen years ago 17-year-old Orianna Negi was convicted of killing one of the male members of the all-powerful Wyclerc dynasty in the small town of Eden Falls, but always insisted she was innocent.
A locked door thriller for April: The Secret Room by Jane Casey, The Other People by C. B. Everett, This Is Not A Game by Kelly Mullen

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Geoffrey Wansell

A locked door thriller for April: The Secret Room by Jane Casey, The Other People by C. B. Everett, This Is Not A Game by Kelly MullenBy GEOFFREY WANSELL Published: 19:02 EDT, 24 April 2025 | Updated: 19:02 EDT, 24 April 2025 The Secret Room by Jane Casey (Hemlock Press £16.99, 416pp)The beautiful second wife of a successful businessman walks into a five-star London hotel for a weekly tryst with her lover, but within an hour she is dead.
Chilling Thrillers out now: The Death of Us by Abigail Dean, The Final Wife by Jenny Blackhurst, The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Geoffrey Wansell

The Death of Us by Abigail Dean (Hemlock £18.99, 368pp)Married couple Edward and Isabel, in their early 30s, are living a comfortable life in their London home when one night an intruder – nicknamed the South London Invader – breaks into their house, helps himself to food from their fridge and then rapes Isabel after subduing Edward in another bedroom.
'Compelling and horrifying': The best the Crime novels to read now

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Geoffrey Wansell

'Compelling and horrifying': The best the Crime novels to read now - Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall, Son by Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger, Paperboy by Callum McSorley By GEOFFREY WANSELL Published: 20:01 EDT, 27 March 2025 | Updated: 20:01 EDT, 27 March 2025 Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall (Michael Joseph £16.99, 368 pp) The creator of ITV’s Broadchurch makes his crime-writing debut with a striking story that opens with the discovery of Dorset pub landlord Jim...
'Best not to read it at night'; The best Thrillers out now

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Geoffrey Wansell

'Best not to read it at night'; The best Thrillers out now - There Came A-Tapping by Andrea Carter, Retreat by Krysten Ritter, The Crime Writer by Diane JeffreyBy GEOFFREY WANSELL Published: 20:01 EDT, 13 March 2025 | Updated: 20:01 EDT, 13 March 2025 There Came A-Tapping by Andrea Carter (Constable £22, 336pp)documentary producer Rory disappears en route back to the Dublin flat he shares with his partner Allie after filming in Galway. His two colleagues are back safely.
The best Crime novels to carry you into March: Making a Killing by Cara Hunter, Murder below Deck by Orlando Murrin, A Trial in Three Acts by Guy Morpuss | Daily Mail Online

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Geoffrey Wansell

The best Crime novels to carry you into March: Making a Killing by Cara Hunter, Murder below Deck by Orlando Murrin, A Trial in Three Acts by Guy Morpuss By GEOFFREY WANSELL Published: 19:02 EST, 27 February 2025 | Updated: 19:02 EST, 27 February 2025 Making a Killing by Cara Hunter (Hemlock £16.99, 359pp) Eight-year-old Daisy Mason first made her appearance in Hunter’s Close To Home in 2016, and here she makes a sensational return as a teenager in the latest episode of the DCI Adam Fawley...
Beautifully constructed, it is as good as its predecessor: The Thrillers you should have on your shelf - Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow, The Daughter by T. M. Logan, Give Him to Me by Dorothy Koomson | Daily Mail Online

Feb 13, 2025 | dailymail.co.uk | Geoffrey Wansell

PROSECUTING attorney Rusty Sabich – star of Turow’s breakout legal drama Presumed Innocent almost 40 years ago – makes a return. Now he is a retired judge living with his new love, school principal Bea, and her black stepson Aaron, who is on probation for drug possession. Then Aaron’s troubled white girlfriend Mae disappears while the couple are away on a trip.
'This is espionage storytelling of the highest quality': The best Thrillers for January - The Seventh Floor by David McCloskey, Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister, Notes on a Drowning by Anna Sharpe | Daily Mail Online

Jan 16, 2025 | dailymail.co.uk | Geoffrey Wansell

Former CIA analyst McCloskey has quickly established himself as one of the world’s finest spy novelists, and this, his third outing, proves just how outstanding he is. There is a mole in the top echelons of the CIA – based on the seventh floor of the Agency’s headquarters in Langley. McCloskey recruits the leading characters from his previous two novels, Artemis Proctor from Moscow X and Sam Joseph from Damascus Station, to go off grid to try and track down the traitor.
Chilling Crime fiction to have on your shelf as Autumn draws closer

Oct 3, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Geoffrey Wansell

THIS charming crime debut set on the Isle of Wight focuses on the reclusive middle-aged spinster Ms Merriweather –Merry to her friends – who lives alone composing cryptic crosswords and going wild swimming from the beach in her wetsuit. But then her neighbour, Lucas Manning, son of her late best friend, mysteriously disappears and she finds herself, unwittingly, drawn into the police search for him.
The most spine chilling Thrillers of the month

Sep 25, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Geoffrey Wansell

THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS by Dean Koontz (Thomas & Mercer £19.99, 400pp)The ever eloquent Koontz, author of more than 120 novels, seldom disappoints. Here he demonstrates exceptional power with the story of 28-year-old Vida, brought up deep in an American forest wilderness by her great uncle. She has a remarkable affinity with nature, especially with the wolves who inhabit the forest alongside her, and mourns the loss of her head teacher lover who died in mysterious circumstances two years earlier.

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Geoffrey Wansell

Articles

Thrillers you won't want to miss

A locked door thriller for April: The Secret Room by Jane Casey, The Other People by C. B. Everett, This Is Not A Game by Kelly Mullen

Chilling Thrillers out now: The Death of Us by Abigail Dean, The Final Wife by Jenny Blackhurst, The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani

'Compelling and horrifying': The best the Crime novels to read now

'Best not to read it at night'; The best Thrillers out now

The best Crime novels to carry you into March: Making a Killing by Cara Hunter, Murder below Deck by Orlando Murrin, A Trial in Three Acts by Guy Morpuss | Daily Mail Online

Beautifully constructed, it is as good as its predecessor: The Thrillers you should have on your shelf - Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow, The Daughter by T. M. Logan, Give Him to Me by Dorothy Koomson | Daily Mail Online

'This is espionage storytelling of the highest quality': The best Thrillers for January - The Seventh Floor by David McCloskey, Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister, Notes on a Drowning by Anna Sharpe | Daily Mail Online

Chilling Crime fiction to have on your shelf as Autumn draws closer

The most spine chilling Thrillers of the month

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