I Know What I Saw
Once wealthy banker Xander Shute is living rough on the streets in I Know What I Saw by Imran Mahmood. He takes refuge in a flat, where he witnesses the murder of a woman at the hands of her lover. When he reports the vicious…
On the Radar: The Peculiar Crimes Unit returns
Quirky, darkly comical and yet comforting in its own way, the Bryant & May series by Christopher Fowler is one of the best that British crime fiction has to offer. If you haven’t tried a novel from this series yet, it’s time to make amends….
Rosy & John by Pierre Lemaitre
Translated by Frank Wynne — Pierre Lemaitre came to our attention in 2013 with his kidnap thriller, Alex, an original and gripping police procedural. It was actually the second in the series featuring diminutive Parisian detective, Camille Verhœven. The success of Alex, which has a…
Good Neighbours by Sarah Langan
Maple Street, in New York State’s Garden City, is a solid middle-class neighbourhood. It benefits from facing Sterling Park which, as estate agents will tell you, is a safe area for the neighbourhood kids to play. The parents are professionals and have aspirations for their…
A Cut for a Cut by Carol Wyer
DI Kate Young is back, wheeling behind her a hefty pile of baggage. We’re at book two in Carol Wyer’s series of books featuring the Staffordshire-based police officer and Kate is even more disturbed than she was in An Eye for an Eye. Put aside…
I Know What I Saw by Imran Mahmood
Xander Shute was a high-flying, wealthy banker – white, Oxbridge educated and privileged. But when I Know What I Saw opens, he’s been living rough on the streets of London for decades. As Xander tells us his story we learn much about him in the first…
On the Radar: A cold case from a cold country
July is here, so as the hot weather sweeps across the Northern Hemisphere, why don’t we all cool off with the latest Icelandic crime fiction? Arnaldur Indridason starts things off with a frozen body for us. Our second featured book also features a frozen body,…
Accra Noir edited by Nana-Ama Danquah
Accra, Ghana is the setting for the latest short story anthology in Cassava Republic’s collection of noir tales from Africa, following Nairobi Noir and Lagos Noir. It aims to feature the best writing by people who know the dark side of the city, be they…