Kinsey and Me
Written by Sue Grafton – Best known for her ‘Alphabet’ series of crime novels featuring feisty female private eye Kinsey Millhone, Sue Grafton will be a name familiar to many crime fiction followers. It’s more than 30 years since we were introduced to Kinsey, and…
Too Dark to Sleep
Written by Dianne Gallagher — You might not have heard of self-published author Dianne Gallagher, but if the quality of her debut crime novel Too Dark to Sleep is anything to go by, her name will spread quickly in crime fiction loving circles. It’s the first…
Code
Written by Kathy and Brendan Reichs — She’s best known for her novels featuring forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan, but Kathy Reichs is also carving a niche for herself in the young adult fiction market. Code is the third in the Virals series, and is co-written with…
The Missing Heiress
Written by Karen Charlton — Forget the wham, bam, slash you ma’am of modern-day crime thrillers and return to a more sedate era in The Missing Heiress, an engaging novel set in a time when ladies wore bonnets, highwaymen terrorised coach travellers and the Bow Street…
Christmas is Murder
Written by Val McDermid — The old adage that good things come in small packages could have been coined for Christmas Is Murder – it’s a little gem of a publication, available on download only. It includes the short stories A Traditional Christmas and A…
The Dark Hour
Written by Robin Burcell — Thinking of making inroads into the Christmas sherry? My advice is to put that bottle down, because you’ll need your wits about you if you’re going to make a start on The Dark Hour. For this is a densely plotted…
DeathBecomesHer: Top five books of 2012
It’s been something of a strange 12 months for me, with moving house one of the most stressful of the year’s events. Thank heavens for my reading though, because thankfully when life is getting on top of you, there’s always a book to take your…