Shoot the Messenger by Shane Kuhn
Trained killer John Lago is in prison, held by the FBI in Quantico, Virginia for a variety of violent crimes. Assistant Director Winton ‘Fletch’ Fletcher is his interrogator. Lago used to work for an elite contract assassination firm, Human Resources Inc and its this company…
Keith Nixon: Top five books of 2015
My year in crime has been a mix of the new and the old. Favourite authors revisited and fresh faces. I have a real soft spot for Irish and particularly Scottish crime fiction, so I wasn’t surprised when my finger fell on a couple of…
NTN: Tim Baker interviewed
Tim Baker’s debut novel, Fever City, is due to be published by Faber & Faber in January 2016 but it’s already generating quite a buzz. Though it deals with the Kennedy assassination – widely treated in crime fiction by the likes of James Ellroy, Don…
The Girl Who Broke the Rules by Marnie Riches
When the dismembered corpses of sex workers begin to turn up in Amsterdam, Chief Inspector Paul van den Bergen knows he has a serious case on his hands. The bodies have all been disemboweled and the suspicion is that a ritualistic killer is at work….
A Taste of Ashes by Tony Blank
Detective Inspector Bob Valentine has recently returned to work in the West Scotland town of Ayr after being stabbed in the heart on a previous case. A rare night out with his long suffering and concerned family is interrupted by a murder. A man has been discovered…
The Drowning Ground by James Marrison
When the body of a local farmer is found on the peak of a hill with a pitchfork rammed through his neck Detective Chief Inspector Guillermo Downes is called in. The deceased is Frank Hurst and well known to Downes. Ten years previously Downes investigated…
Preserve the Dead by Brian McGilloway
Detective Sergeant Lucy Black of the Derry police force leads a full and complex life. Her father is suffering the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and has been badly beaten by another inmate at the secure unit he’s currently in. But before she can complain…