Books by Chris Simms and Complete Book Reviews
Chris Simms, Author . Orion $12.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-7528-7799-0
In this solid British police procedural from Simms (Pecking Order
), Manchester Det. Insp. Jon Spicer looks into a bizarre series of murders, starting with the death of 22-year-old singer Polly Mather, whose throat is found clogged with a mysterious
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Chris Simms, Author Orion Publishing Group, $19.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-7528-7365-7
An all-too-familiar serial-killer plot drives British author Simms's underwhelming second police procedural to feature Det. Insp. Jon Spicer (after Killing the Beasts). The ""Butcher of Belle Vue"" takes his name from the Manchester neighborhood...
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Chris Simms. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-78029-035-5
This run-of-the-mill first in a new crime series from Simms (Cut Adrift and five other Jon Spicer mysteries) introduces Det. Constable Iona Khan, recently promoted to the Greater Manchester Police Counter Terrorism Unit. In addition to putting up...
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Chris Simms. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-78029-050-8
Simms comes up with some interesting plot hooks in this otherwise unremarkable thriller—his second featuring Det. Constable Iona Khan (after 2013’s Scratch Deeper). She is a typically atypical police heroine: half-Scottish, half-Pakistani, with a...
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Chris Simms. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8810-5
In this promising series launch, British author Simms (the John Spicer series) introduces 22-year-old Sean Blake on his first day as a detective constable with the Manchester police. Sean suspects, as do some of his fellow officers, that he got the...
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Chris Simms. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8881-5
In Simms’s fine sequel to 2018’s Loose Tongues, Jordan Hughes, who has just finished serving more than a decade in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, is bent on taking revenge on those responsible, including Manchester, England, gang lord Anthony
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