News and reviews

* 13-30 April 2023 Reviews for No Place to Hide:

‘Monroe builds up the tension well, offering a battle between good and evil and bringing in the kinds of questions most people ask themselves.’ 
LITERARY REVIEW

‘A clever and complex story of unrequited love, ancient misjudgments and a truly devilish villain.’
MAIL ON SUNDAY

‘Disturbing and fun at the same time, this is a techno-thriller with an entirely human core.’ 
MORNING STAR

* 13 April 2023 No Place To Hide is launched at the White Horse bookshop in Marlborough, Wiltshire

* 10 April 2023 Blog tour begins for No Place To Hide 

* 1-8 April 2023 J.S.Monroe goes on a book-signing tour of Cornwall, visiting St Ives Bookshop, Edge of the World Bookshop and The Morrab Library in Penzance and Waterstones, Truro

* 1 April 2023 J.S.Monroe gives a talk to the Morrab library in Penzance about No Place To Hide.

* March 2023 J.S.Monroe is invited to talk at this year’s Iceland Noir festival in November. The line up in Reykjavik includes Richard Armitage, Dan Brown, Neil Gaiman, Lisa Jewell, Louise Penny, CJ Tudor and Irvine Welsh. 

* March 2023 J.S. Monroe is invited to talk at this year’s Fowey Literary Festival. Jon will be speaking about No Place To Hide at 11am on Thursday 18 May 2023. Book here for tickets.

* October 2022 J.S.Monroe talks to a full house at Marlborough LitFest about The Man on Hackpen Hill, which was chosen as this year’s Big Town Read.

* May 2022 A sneak preview of the cover of the new J.S.Monroe thriller, No Place to Hide, to be published in the UK in April 2023 by Head of Zeus.

* March 2022 Cover reveal for the paperback of The Man on Hackpen Hill, to be published on 7 July 2022

 

* 10 September 2021 The Man On Hackpen Hill is reviewed by Geoffrey Wansell in the Daily Mail: “Impeccably researched… an unusual mystery told with exceptional skill.” Full Daily Mail review, below.

“Crop circles are not unknown in Wiltshire, where this intriguing story is set, but when a body is found at the centre of one on Hackpen Hill, DI Silas Hart is sent to investigate.

Then another body turns up in another crop circle and the plot quickly thickens as aspiring journalist Bella meets Jim, a scientist at the secretive government laboratory at nearby Porton Down.

Impeccably researched — for example in explaining the mathematical elements to crop circles — Monroe manages to make them fascinating and even exciting. Inevitably, Bella and Jim find themselves pitted against those dark forces that led to the Novichok poisonings in Salisbury in March 2018. Meanwhile, the ever-dependable DI Hart struggles to keep up with the complexities of the case, in spite of the mathematical insights offered by his fearsomely intelligent female assistant.

It all adds up to an unusual mystery told with exceptional skill.”

* 7 September 2021 Martin Chilton chooses The Man on Hackpen Hill as The Independent’s ‘Thriller of the Month’.

* 2 September 2021 The Man On Hackpen Hill is published in the UK by Head of Zeus.