Pieces of Her
An engaging standalone from Karin Slaughter, who has gained quite a reputation for her tricksy psychological thrillers. A mother and daughter are having a low-key birthday meal in a diner when a gunman appears and starts shooting. Daughter Andy cowers in a corner, while her…
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…