The Last Whisper in the Dark
Is your brother a deranged serial killer? No? Well you can’t have everything in life. Terry Rand has. His brother Collie ticked all the psychotic and homicidal boxes. But even though Collie has been disposed of via lethal injection, there remain too many family complexities…
Generation Loss
Set on a wintry island off the coast of Maine, this book introduces us to a physically and mentally scarred bisexual photographer, Cassandra Neary, who travels to the island to write a piece for a pop culture magazine. She encounters missing teenagers, pets killed by…
How a Gunman Says Goodbye by Malcolm Mackay
To the casual observer Frank MacLeod is an unremarkable man approaching old age. Another near-pensioner shuffling to the shop for a newspaper he won’t read, and a pint of milk that will go off before he finishes it. To those in the know, Frank is…
Demons Walk Among Us by Jonathan Hicks
Last year, Hicks introduced us to Captain Thomas Oscendale, of The Military Foot Police. In The Dead of Mametz, he was investigating treachery and murder during the Battle of The Somme. Now, he is in the Ypres Salient, and it is 1917, a year later….
Chandler's 125th birthday - WIN a Philip Marlowe bundle
On 23 July 1888, arguably the greatest crime fiction writer of all time was born in Chicago, Illinois. So, today we’re celebrating the 125th anniversary of the birth of one of the fathers of the genre we love. And with it we’ve got a quiz…
Scafell by Matthew Pink
Stephen ‘Sparky’ Markham is washed up in all kinds of ways. After a career in the forces, and a stint with the Metropolitan Police in London, he has pretty much dropped out, and has taken refuge in his inherited cottage on the fells above Wastwater,…
Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson
In a cutting which once carried a railway line that Dr Beeching took his knife to in the 1960s, a corpse is discovered. It is Gavin Millar, a disgraced former lecturer. Most oddly, despite his emaciated and scruffy appearance, he was carrying £5000 in cash….