The Forger
Written by Cay Rademacher, translated by Peter Millar — Frank Stave begins this novel as a chief inspector in Hamburg’s Homicide division. But having been shot during a routine operation he has reconsidered his career and when he is fit to return to work he requests…
Boise Longpig Hunting Club
Written by Nick Kolakowski — Idaho bounty hunter Jake Halligan’s relationship with the Boise police force is difficult enough without any extra complications. The police take a dim view of bounty hunters as it is – trigger happy cowboys without the guts or discipline to carry…
Kiss of Death by Paul Finch
UK crime fiction stalwart Paul Finch has made an enviable career for himself, no doubt helped by his experiences as a policeman, crime beat journalist and screenwriter. His Heck series, featuring DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg of the National Crime Group’s Serial Crimes Unit, is now…
The War in the Dark
Written by Nick Setchfield — Christopher Winter works for British Intelligence, and although he’s a spy, his talents lie more in removing threats to the state than tradecraft or espionage; he is somewhat of a blunt instrument. It is London, in the autumn of 1963 and…
Death in the Woods by Bernie Steadman
The first book in the A West Country Crime Mystery series begins appropriately enough with a group of boys discovering the body of 16-year-old Carly Braithwaite in the woods behind St Andrew’s Academy, Exeter. Carly was an unremarkable pupil at the school and her murder…
How it Happened
American writer Michael Koryta is finding the transition from promising newcomer to established bestselling author and easy one. In How It Happened, FBI agent Rob Barrett returns to the Maine countryside of his childhood to investigate a double murder. His interrogation of an unreliable witness…