Ruthless traffickers have set up a base in Belgium to smuggle migrants across the Channel. The Daily Mail has established that organised crime networks calling themselves the ‘boat mafia’ have moved in to Brussels to profit from a huge rise in migrants. Some 1,000 arrivals are using the city as an alternative staging post to … Read more
The niece of a British woman who was brutally raped and murdered in South Africa has revealed how she tracked down her aunt’s ‘killer’… using a Facebook honey trap. Retired teacher Christine Robinson, 59, was brutally raped and murdered at a South African safari lodge in 2014. Her niece Lehanne Sergison, 49, grew frustrated with the … Read more
Shia LaBeouf’s latest movie, The Tax Collector, is being savaged by critics who have called it ‘incompetent,’ ‘a bloody mess’ and ‘one of the most atrocious viewing experiences of the year’. The crime thriller, which also stars Bobby Soto and premiered on August 7, was written and directed by David Ayer, who was also behind … Read more
Book me in: Follow Poirot on the trail of Agatha Christie’s serial killer on the English Riviera In the ABC Murders, Christie uses real place names on the English Riviera Among them is Elberry Cove, where a body is found in the classic whodunnit Also featured is Torquay’s palm-fringed promenade and its Princess Gardens By … Read more
WHAT BOOK would comedian and presenter Julian Clary take to a desert island? Julian Clary is reading Babes In The Wood by Graham Bartlett and Peter James The comedian would take The Ultimate Insult by Maria Leach to a desert island Presenter said Mark Griffin’s All That Heaven Allows left him feeling cold By Daily Mail … Read more
From Crime to Crime Richard Henriques Hodder & Stoughton £25 Rating: On the cover, the publishers have given this book a racy subtitle: ‘Harold Shipman To Operation Midland: 17 Cases That Shocked The World.’ This is, as it turns out, only slightly overstated. The trials with which the author has been involved, either as a … Read more
WHAT BOOK would novelist Oyinkan Braithwaite take to a desert island? Oyinkan Braithwaite is currently reading The Chain by Adrian McKinty She would take Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte to a desert island Novelist revealed Mrs Rochester by Hilary Bailey left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:02 BST, 2 July 2020 | Updated: 22:10 BST, … Read more
POPULAR FICTION By Wendy Holden for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 25 June 2020 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 25 June 2020 THE FAMILY HOLIDAY by Elizabeth Noble (Michael Joseph £7.99, 432pp) THE FAMILY HOLIDAY by Elizabeth Noble (Michael Joseph £7.99, 432pp) Charlie Chamberlain wants to mark his 80th birthday in style. He hires a … Read more
CLASSIC CRIME By Barry Turner for the Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 18 June 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 18 June 2020 SHILLS CAN’T CASH CHIPS by Erle Stanley Gardner (Hard Case Crime £7.99, 224 pp) SHILLS CAN’T CASH CHIPS by Erle Stanley Gardner (Hard Case Crime £7.99, 224 pp) Don’t ask me to explain … Read more
CRIME By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:04 BST, 11 June 2020 | Updated: 22:04 BST, 11 June 2020 THE CURATOR by M. W. Craven (Constable £16.99, 384 pp) THE CURATOR by M. W. Craven (Constable £16.99, 384 pp) This third outing for the two magnificently eccentric analysts from the National Crime Agency, … Read more