Night Watcher reviews
“Night Watcher is the sort of novel that keeps the reader glued to its pages, frantically guessing as the plot takes numerous twists and turns.” Alex Gray, crime writer.
“This is a complex and well-crafted tale, beautifully put together – full of a sense of foreboding, and full of menace.” Catherine Czerkawska, author.
“The first in the Dundee Crime Series, Night Watcher, is about revenge, obsession and stalking. But far from the stereotyped ‘psycho man stalks helpless women’ scenario which is all too familiar, Longmuir has created a set of flawed, suffering yet sympathetic characters, and the stalking is not all by men. The stage is set early in the book, and the drama plays out, keeping the reader firmly seated and gripped until the end.” Valerie Laws.
“Chris Longmuir, who wrote the prizewinning Dead Wood, knows the ingredients for a tense, satisfying crime novel and puts them together in a way that keeps multiplying the cliffhangers and keeps you asking what will happen next. Love is transactional, infidelity is the norm and Longmuir keeps the focus tightly on them as the night watcher observes them from his shadows. The resolution is delayed up to the final pages with not just one twist, but two. It’s a very enjoyable read from a writer who knows what she is doing.” Bill Kirton, author.
Dead Wood reviews
“The plot moves along at a cracking pace and the highs and lows, and twists and turns leave you breathless. If you like gritty tartan noir, then you would do well to read this book. I would highly recommend it.” Wendy H Jones, author.
“As with her other contemporary Dundee thrillers, Dead Wood is well-written, tightly plotted and well, thrilling. Lately, like many crime readers/writers, I’ve been wary of too many books with female victims of twisted serial killers but having read her other three books on Kindle I had to read this one and it’s so good I devoured it despite the female body count! Highly recommended.” Valerie Laws, author.
“Faint hearts beware – Mills and Boon, this is not. The Dead Wood of the title is Templeton Wood on the outskirts of the city, notorious for the discovery in 1970 and 1971 of the bodies of two young women, a grim fact cleverly remarked on by the author. I have to say that in seventy years of reading crime novels I find this tale perhaps the most gripping of all, a real page-turner. More please, Ms Longmuir.” I. Christie.
Missing Believed Dead reviews
“This tough Scottish author runs a pair of devilish games here – and is in commanding charge of both. First, for mystery lovers, there’s a wicked shell game that defies figuring out: Jade, a kidnapped 13-year-old girl presumed dead, may have come back five years later to punish sexual predators. Or could ‘Jade’ actually be her mousy twin Emma, her haunted mother Diane, or her cross-dressing brother Ryan? Excellent though the game is, the second game is better still: without sacrificing the fun or the pace, composing a serious novel, with a stirring sense of place, about traumatised family survivors.” Reb McRath.
“This is competent, confident crime writing: the sort that keeps the reader wanting just one more chapter … and another and another. I read with pleasure and almost without pause and I now look forward to catching up on Longmuir’s earlier series’ titles, Night Watcher and Dead Wood.” Julia Jones.
“With her usual fascination for the darker recesses of people’s psyches, the author shows us the separate torments of Jade’s mother, sister and brother, each of whom is scarred by her loss. And all the time, in the background, there’s the mystery of another abducted teenager for whom the clock is ticking inexorably towards what threatens to be a painful outcome. Altogether, it’s a dark scary picture of an apparently ordinary world of ordinary people whose actions and motives betray the demons within them.” Bill Kirton, author.