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,…
Interview: Peter May
Novelist, TV writer and producer Peter May is best known for his highly acclaimed Lewis Trilogy, which to date has sold more than a million copies in the UK alone. His latest novel is Entry Island, a standalone novel set in Canada – but the…
Downfall by Jeff Abbott
Author of 14 previous novels, Jeff Abbott has been described as the thriller writers’ favourite. And some pretty big names – think Coben, Child and Connelly – heap praise on his work in the inside cover of this book. He also won the International Thriller…
The Outsider by Arlene Hunt
As the weather begins to thaw after a snowy Christmas in rural Ireland, a search party is methodically checking the soggy fields and pastures, looking for Gully Donovan, who hasn’t been seen for days. The discovery of a body face down in a swollen brook…
DeathBecomesHer: Top five books of 2013
It’s been a vintage year for crime fiction, and I’ve been lucky enough to pass judgment over a veritable constellation of five star books in the past 12 months. Which makes it so very hard to come up with just five picks. I’ll start with some…
Casting the First Stone by Frances Fyfield
She’s a prolific and award-winning author loved by many, but until now the work of Frances Fyfield has almost passed me by. She has written 22 books, and Casting the First Stone is the latest. It’s a follow-on to Gold Digger, which introduced the character…