All of Us Are Broken by Fiona Cummins
Bonnie and Clyde: a notorious pair of killers and robbers who terrorised central USA in the time of the Great Depression. Their crimes made them famous, and that fame was rekindled in the late 1960s with a movie starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, and…
Black Thorn by Sarah Hilary
Many people dream of living in an idyllic place, enjoying comfort and security in a gorgeous new home with all mod cons. But be careful what you wish for… Sarah Hilary’s new standalone paints a grim picture of achieving those goals – because sometimes, there…
Interview: Sarah Hilary
We first met Sarah Hilary in 2014, with Someone Else’s Skin – her crime debut, which introduced us to London-based DI Marnie Rome and ended up winning Theakston’s 2015 Crime Novel of the Year. The series eventually ran to six books, but then Hilary turned her attention…
Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry
Chris Brookmyre and his wife Dr Marisa Haetzman took that old adage of ‘write what you know’ to heart when they came up with The Way of all Flesh, first in a series of historical crime novels set in Victorian Edinburgh. Brookmyre, after all, is…
An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb by Louise Wolhuter
Small towns, with their insular attitudes and tight-lipped inhabitants, are a rich hunting ground for crime fiction authors – think City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita, Weirdo by Cathi Unsworth or any Miss Marple mystery. You know the drill… stranger arrives in town, crime…
The Last Goodbye by Tim Weaver
Anyone who has read The Blackbird, the previous book in Tim Weaver’s series, will know that its finale left David Raker in a precarious place. As The Last Goodbye begins, the missing persons investigator is thanking his lucky stars that he is still one step…
When We Fall by Aoife Clifford
It’s with great reluctance that Alex Tillerson is spending time in the strangely insular Australian coastal town of Merritt – and there are many reasons why she really doesn’t want to be there. For starters, the place brings back unhappy memories of childhood visits to…