Death before dishonour? We shall see...
On the Radar — The beginning of August was a big week for new releases, and the end of August looks like it will have a similarly bountiful range of new crime fiction offerings. So in this week’s news we’ve got some of the biggest…
Interview: Erin Kelly
A leading light in the new generation of psychological crime writers, Erin Kelly’s 2010 debut The Poison Tree was praised by Stephen King, who compared its powerful suspense to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. The novel about a suburban student who embraces a new bohemian life…
An Act of Kindness by Barbara Nadel
Set in East London, An Act of Kindness sees PI Lee Arnold and his assistant Mumtaz Hakim struggling for work. It’s 2012 and Olympics fever is in the air. Lee has been hired by an old school gangster to investigate his young wife, whom he…
Interview: JB Turner
Launched earlier this year, Exhibit A Books is an independent imprint bringing together a stable of up-and-coming crime authors working in popular areas of crime fiction, but aiming to bring something a little different to the shelf. One of them is the Edinburgh writer JB…
Death in Florence by Marco Vichi
Translated by Stephen Sartarelli — Italian crime writing, often preoccupied with the country’s cuisine and corruption, is among the best in the genre, yet Inspector Montalbano is really the only detective from Italy who can claim current bestseller status as a series character in the English…
A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd
There is a small but growing body of crime fiction featuring real historical people – Jed Rubenfeld’s Sigmund Freud series, for instance, or Nicola Upson’s Josephine Tey. In this book it’s the Romantic Poets, particularly Percy Bysshe Shelley, who take centre stage. There is always…