If you’re a crime fiction lover with an iPad or an iPad Mini, a new app has been released just for you by independent publisher Caffeine Nights. With the motto ‘Fiction aimed at the heart and the head’ the publisher’s app offers readers two chapters from a selection of 18 books it has published. Authors include Ian Ayris, Nick Triplow, Harry Dunn, RC Bridgestock and Nick Quantrill.

Tap a book from the virtual bookshelf presented, and you’re a swipe away from sampling its content. With some books you get a bit more than with other, depending on the author’s style and how long their chapters are! If you decide to buy, you poke a button on the screen and you come out of the app into the iBooks bookstore where you can purchase the book for your device.

Try it out here – it’s a nicely designed little taster from this forward-looking UK crime publisher.