Morecambe & Vice 2018 - a festival of crime writing and hidden talents
In a chilly and cavernous, tatty-around-the-edges but still beautiful old theatre on Morecambe’s seafront, MJ Arlidge is holding forth. He has a bottle in one hand, a cocktail shaker in the other, and he’s preparing a killer pear martini for his fellow panellists who are…
The Birthday
Written by Carol Wyer — Carol Wyer arrived on the crime fiction scene just over a year ago, and since then readers have been treated to five books featuring Staffordshire DI Robyn Carter. Now the author has created a new central character for another series…
Murder at the Book Club by Betsy Reavley
A group of nine women gather for a book club meeting in Cambridge. Can you think of a more innocuous premise for a work of crime fiction? There’s tea, homemade cake, even a bottle of wine… but all is not well with this lot. From…
The Lingering
Written by SJI Holliday — Susi Holliday has been making quite a name for herself as a writer of creepy and claustrophobic thrillers. She is the author of the Banktoun trilogy and we reviewed book one, Black Wood, in 2015. One of her short stories, Home…
Ngaio read this: top Kiwi crime writers of 2018 awarded
The strength in depth of New Zealand’s crime fiction has already featured on the site and in March we picked 12 Kiwi authors to try, so choosing the winners of the annual Ngaio Marsh Awards must prove quite a test for the judges. Nevertheless, they’ve…