4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (137+ words) Barclay has been a successful thriller writer for a long time, perhaps more so in North America than in the United Kingdom, and with writing as good as this, it’s easy to see why. Even if commercial, high-concept thrillers aren’t…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (571+ words) Translated by Ian Giles — Are you ready for a cold case mystery from Sweden? Professor Hans Rekke and police officer Micaela Vargas team up once again in Post Mortem, the third in Lagercrantz’s series featuring the unlikely duo, following Fatal…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (335+ words) The Vanishing Room, the sophomore outing for the pair, follows close behind, with Blackwood being honoured for her role in solving the case and Lennox haunted by events, compounding his ongoing cognitive issues. The central mystery involves a missing eight-year-old....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (240+ words) Silvia Moreno-Garcia has the uncanny ability to jump effortlessly between genres. Gothic horror, fantasy adventure, historical fantasy or sci-fi, magic realism, vampire noir, crime noir, coming-of-age or historical drama, she’s done it all. With The Intrigue, she presents us with…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (873+ words) All is not well at the Horatio Combe Institute in Priory Square, Camden, London. And it’s not just the mokomokai who are looking peaky. Owner/operator Digby Coombe-Watson – descendent of notorious colonial pilferer Horatio Coombe – has been murdered. And on…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (162+ words) The early chapters fell flat with me, the characters seemed rather generic and uninspired, and I did wonder how much I would enjoy the book. However, once it became apparent that what connected these people was that they had all…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (420+ words) Crime Fiction Lover First look: Illicit Still by William McIntyre Sometimes it’s nice to enjoy a wee dram as you soak in the ambiance of a cleverly crafted mystery novel, and Illicit Still by William McIntyre looks like it could…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (154+ words) At the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Festival held in Harrogate last month, I was lucky enough to get time to sit down and have a good old chinwag with a man described as Australia’s king of crime writing. Meeting Garry…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (678+ words) Joanna Wallace’s debut novel, You’d Look Better as a Ghost, introduced one of the most delightfully unlikely protagonists in contemporary crime fiction: Claire, an artist, a grieving daughter and an unapologetic serial killer whose moral compass points in directions all…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (116+ words) But they have one last book in its final stages, so have to put on a brave face for their loyal readers. It’s hard. Reminders of their first success are everywhere at the event, and the conference planner has even…...