Features

PD James (1920-2014) remembered

By
No one was surprised at the outpouring of emotions and tributes following the sad passing of Baroness PD James last week. Over the course of five decades she had burrowed herself into our hearts and minds with her complex and subtle crime novels. She is…
Read more
Features

NTN: Janet O'Kane interviewed

By
If you’re looking for an alternative to the grim urban settings that predominate in Scottish crime fiction, then self-published author Janet O’Kane is one to try. Her first book No Stranger to Death offers a gentler setting – the Scottish Borders – but at the…
Read more
Features

NTN: An introduction to ThunderPoint Publishing

By
Edinburgh-based ThunderPoint Publishing is one of the youngest independent publishers out there and, with its line-up, an ideal partner for us during New Talent November. ThunderPoint’s first title was launched in April 2013, quickly followed by four more. The company’s mission statement is to publish…
Read more
KindlePrintReviews

The Hummingbird by Kati Hiekkapelto

By
Translated by David Hackston — Although Finland is often grouped with Scandinavia, its population, language and sensibility are all quite different. That holds true of its crime fiction as well. There is something unnerving and mysterious about the taciturn Finnish detectives, some of whom we’ve…
Read more
Features

CIS: Josephine Tey as author and protagonist

By
Back in the 1930s and 40s, Josephine Tey was one of the UK’s most celebrated playwrights and novelists. How times change. Nowadays it’s dedicated aficionados of Golden Age detective fiction who read her, and often only a couple of novels. Yet at least one of…
Read more