When we say Lapaz, we mean the town in Ghana, rather than Bolivia, but this week’s collection of new books will take you all over the map and through a wild range of topics and ideas too. From Kwei Quartey’s new African mystery, you can…
Fans of realistic spy fiction will enjoy David McCloskey’s debut thriller Damascus Station, newly available in paperback in the UK. I listened to the audio version narrated by Andrew B Wehrlen and found it an utterly engaging tale. The story, in the early days of…
Long-running crime series are like an addiction. Once you’ve started with book one, if the author is skilled enough to get you on the hook, it’s impossible to say no to books two, three, four and so on. Sadly, after a while some writers take…
What’s most fun about Rich Zahradnik’s new crime thriller set in Brooklyn is the peek into worlds most of us haven’t experienced first hand. It tells the story of Grigoriy ‘Grigg’ Orlov, a young man who washed out of the police academy when a racist…
Set in Birmingham in 1933, Needless Alley explores provincial England between the wars from a working class and queer perspective. It’s a debut novel for Natalie Marlow, a Warwickshire-based author whose passion is for stories from the past, and the book is named after a…
There’s a balancing act to be performed while reading the House at the End of the World. You may need to keep a dictionary at hand to fathom out some of the little-used words that this author sprinkles liberally through his prose – but on…
