John Verpeleti
John Verpeleti is a chartered surveyor and semi-retired property professional. He is an Australian, but moved to Budapest at the beginning of 1991, following the Fall of the Wall.
Books reviewed by John Verpeleti
The Dictator's Wife
In 1993, a young London lawyer of Yanussian descent joins a team to defend the wife of the dictator of Yanussia, a fictitious Eastern European country.
Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by John Verpeleti
Find Her First
Paramedic Stef Campbell is missing and there is some suspicion that her husband, Andy, also a paramedic, is responsible for her disappearance. Nothing is as it seems, however.
Reviewed on 30 April 2022 by John Verpeleti
The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer
An investigative journalist approaches a retiring police captain and suggests he got a 20-year-old case very wrong. Then she is murdered and the team re-investigates the earlier crime, as well as her death.
Reviewed on 26 March 2022 by John Verpeleti
Volta
A woman flees to her therapist covered in blood in the belief that she has murdered her partner. Her lawyer carries his own demons and has a similar childhood past.
Reviewed on 19 February 2022 by John Verpeleti
The Dark Hours
Renée Ballard calls in Harry Bosch as her latest case shares a feature with one of Harry’s unsolved cases ten years earlier. She is also trying to identify two rapists who have been dubbed The Midnight Men.
Reviewed on 22 January 2022 by John Verpeleti
Trust Me
Kathryn leaves her baby with a stranger on a train for a moment, ostensibly to take a call. She then disembarks and disappears. leaving the stranger to look after the baby and establish what has just happened.
Reviewed on 23 October 2021 by John Verpeleti
Savage Road
The President of the United States is a Russian mole and it is for his handler and covert agent, Hayley Chill, to keep him in line and ensure that a current series of cyber-attacks does not escalate into war.
Reviewed on 25 September 2021 by John Verpeleti
The Murder Box
A police chief receives a murder mystery game, seemingly as a birthday present, but it soon becomes clear that the game is live and involves current day crimes.
Reviewed on 21 August 2021 by John Verpeleti
Ask No Questions
On the 25th anniversary of a young girl’s murder, a journalist investigates whether the man imprisoned for the crime really was guilty.
Reviewed on 24 July 2021 by John Verpeleti
