Cast-Iron Men
Written by Dominic Kearney — As 2007 draws to a close, the city of Liverpool looks like a giant building site as it prepares to take centre stage as the 2008 European City of Culture. It’s a huge fillip for a city that has been…
Inspector Singh Investigates: A Calamitous Chinese Killing
Written by Shamini Flint — Meet Inspector Singh, a rotund, turban wearing Sikh policeman and the bane of his long-suffering bosses at the Singapore Police Department. To the newspapers, he’s the ‘curry cop’, the ‘poppadom policeman’, and a man who gets results in some rather…
Cross and Burn
Written by Val McDermid –- These days, bookshop shelves and Amazon listings are packed to overflowing with crime fiction. Some is poor, some good, some great. And the select few are absolutely brilliant. Which is where you’ll find the work of the uber-talented Val McDermid….
TV debut for Aector McAvoy?
David Mark’s Hull-based crime novels have been optioned by a ‘major TV company’, with filming earmarked for next year, the Hull Daily Mail has reported. The author’s first two books, The Dark Winter and Original Skin, won rave reviews here and elsewhere, and the third…
I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Written by EA Aymar — People of a certain age will remember those old Charles Atlas adverts, where the seven stone weakling has sand kicked in his face by a muscle-bound bully, and retaliates by working out to get a few muscles of his own…
Always Watching
Written by Chevy Stevens — One of my top five crime fiction books of 2013 was Too Dark to Sleep, which featured a police detective who was afraid of the dark. And it’s something similar with Always Watching, where the central character is Nadine Lavoie,…