Written in Blood by Chris Carter
Fans of cosy crime should look away now – because a new release by Chris Carter is not a place you can comfortably inhabit. Carter has cornered the market in near to the knuckle psychological crime books that drag you in screaming and won’t let…
Tell Me How it Ends by VB Grey
England in the early 1950s must have been a pretty grey and dismal place to live. The country was still recovering from World War II, and rationing didn’t end until 1954. No wonder, then, that the 1960s were ‘swinging’ as a new sense of freedom…
Ash Mountain
Helen FitzGerald is fast cornering the market in quirky psychological crime and this standalone novel is no exception. Fran is forced to return to the dead-end Aussie town of Ash Mountain to care for her father, who is terminally ill. She hates the place, and…
The Blues Don't Care
Take a trip back in time, to Los Angeles in the middle of World War II, for Paul D Marks‘ evocative and hugely engaging noirish novel. Meet Bobby Saxon, a wannabe jazz player who has set his sights on a spot behind the piano in…
Fire on the Island by Timothy Jay Smith
Lockdown is a bummer, isn’t it? But the great thing about reading is that it can transport you to somewhere completely different in the mere flick of a page. These days you can find crime fiction set in all manner of locations, both humdrum and…
Somebody's Daughter by Carol Wyer
Can it be just three years since award-winning romantic comedy novelist Carol Wyer turned her attention to crime fiction? Since then, she’s written 11 well-received books and now she’s back with her 12th. Somebody’s Daughter is number seven in the series featuring Natalie Ward and…