FREE ebook: The Pineville Heist
Yesterday we brought you our review of The Pineville Heist, an action-packed crime book for young adults about a teenage boy called Aaron Stevens who gets mixed up in a bank robbery. The author Lee Chambers has dropped us a line to let us know…
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy competition winners
Normally our site is all about the best crime books out there, but when the good folks at Focus Features got in touch about the release of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy offering fine prizes if we’d run a competition with them, we couldn’t resist. So…
Interview: new Victorian crime author Kate Williams
You might recognise author Kate Williams. She took part in the TV coverage of the Royal Wedding in 2011, working for the BBC. She’s also appeared with Caroline Quentin on Restoration Home, and worked on the BBC Timewatch documentary the Young Victoria. Her non-fiction books…
The Cold Cold Ground
Northern Ireland, 1981. The police have plenty to deal with as nationalists riot in the streets, hunger strikes in full swing. So when a gay man is found with a bullet in his skull and one of his hands cut off, on the surface it…
Mercy
Mercy unfolds like a police procedural but has an urgent, thrilling edge to it thanks to Adler-Olsen’s great storytelling. He sets up cliff-hangers with poise, pulling you on through the chapters even though for long periods detective Carl Mørck and his assistant Assad are investigating…
Vengeance, Italian style
A week or two ago we brought you a review of one of the classics of Italian crime fiction, That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana, written 65 years ago. If stories set in Italia in the 1930s take your fancy, then keep an eye…