Crime Fiction Lover

Back in 2019, Scottish author GR Halliday entered the world of crime fiction with his debut novel, From the Shadows. Now, it’s 2026, a lucky seven years later, and copies are flying off the shelves. ITV has turned that first DI Monica Kennedy novel into…

Here’s a book for people looking for a new take on the political thriller, beyond the familiar tropes of corrupt officials, property developers, police coverups and soulless oligarchs. Nathaniel Rich’s new heist thriller Cloudthief points its literary finger directly at the massive data centres working…

There’s no shortage of great detective stories set in Edinburgh, of course, spearheaded by Ian Rankin’s Rebus series. Since 2012, James Oswald has steadily added to this roster with his DI Tony McLean series and The Violent Hour, the 15th to feature McLean, has arrived….

Is this the summer of the destination thriller? Maybe. Maybe not. Some of the spots you’ll visit literarily in this week’s new books report are a lot more desirable than others. Blackpool is the setting for Mark Billingham’s The Shadow Step. Debatable as a destination….

The tourism boom in Iceland has resulted in all sorts of shiny new hotels popping up in Reykjavik. It seems an unlikely source of inspiration at first, but just think of all the criminal capers that could go on in a hotel. The camera-shy Iceland-based…

Deliverance is the final book in Saima Mir’s addictive Khan trilogy. Jia Khan, a British-Pakistani character, began in the books as a successful barrister estranged from her family in the North of England. She has since become an international criminal queenpin with strong ties to…