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Stop Dead

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Written by Leigh Russell — Since being shortlisted in 2009 for the CWA’s New Blood Dagger, British crime author Leigh Russell has seen each of her Geraldine Steel mysteries race into the Kindle charts for various crime- and mystery-related categories. She has even come up with…
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The Station Sergeant

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Written by John McAllister — John Barlow is in his element as Station Sergeant in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. It is the late 1950s/early 1960s, and up to now the biggest crimes committed in this decidedly rural area appear to be cattle rustling, and drunk and…
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The Distinguished Assassin

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Written by Nick Taussig — While reading this novel about life in Stalin’s Soviet Russia, I was reminded very strongly of Solzhenitsyn’s book The Gulag Archipelago. This is deliberate, as the author has explained on his blog. As a postgraduate student of Russian literature in London,…
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At the End of a Dull Day

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Written by Massimo Carlotto — Giorgio Pellegrini has left his life of terrorism and crime behind. Or as far behind as is possible in thoroughly corrupt, amoral modern day Venice.  For eleven years, Giorgio has been the owner of the restaurant La Nena, the trendy place for…
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Black Skies

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Written by Arnaldur Indridason — If you’ve read Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbo or Henning Mankell and want to deepen your experience of the Nordic Noir sub-genre, then Arnaldur Indridason’s books need to be added to your TBR list. First published in English in 2004, Jar…
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