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A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz

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There’s something delightfully audacious about the premise of A Deadly Episode. The latest instalment in Anthony Horowitz’s long-running Hawthorne series begins with a murder that appears, at first glance anyway, to be deeply personal: private detective Daniel Hawthorne is stabbed to death. Except he isn’t….
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Make Thick My Blood by Toni Viola

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Set against the volatile backdrop of Rome, Toni Viola’s Make Thick My Blood blends procedural investigation, political intrigue and personal reckoning into a thriller that is as interested in the moral pressures placed on its characters as it is in solving a crime. As a…
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A Plot to Die For by Ardal O’Hanlon

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Few settings are more deceptively dangerous than a picturesque rural community. As many have found to their misfortune, beneath the herbaceous borders, parish council meetings and carefully maintained public image lurk old grudges, quiet humiliations and lives that have curdled into resentment. A Plot to…
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June 2026 is the UK's National Crime Reading month

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Nine murders. One seemingly impossible disappearance. Nineteen burglaries. An adrenalin-fuelled car chase and an impressively grand theft. Plenty of domestic drama. A taste of pie-based controversy. Not a bad tally so far for May’s crime spree on CFL… but can you do any better? Before…
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Marked for Death by RO Thorp

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Universities are supposed to be places of quiet scholarship, polite disagreement and excessive footnotes… not suspicious deaths. Yet in RO Thorp’s Marked for Death, the cloistered world of academia proves just as dangerous as any dark alley, picturesque English village or research trip to the…
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