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Into the Flames by James Delargy

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James Delargy’s incendiary new crime thriller Into the Flames follows his two previous novels set in rural southeastern Australia. Inspiration for his latest may have been the terrifying 2019-20 bushfire season in New South Wales, and reminiscent of wildfires in Western Canada and the United…
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The Missing Family by Tim Weaver

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The Missing Family is the latest in British author Tim Weaver’s popular series of thrillers featuring missing-persons investigator David Raker. Here, Weaver presents an impossible crime, the unexpected tentacles of which stretch clear across the Atlantic and the North American continent. Sarah Fowler hires Raker…
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Jack & I by Laury A Egan

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Laury Egan’s new novel, Jack & I, is the dark tale of a 16-year-old New Jersey boy growing up in a state of utter confusion. Part of the turmoil around him is environmental and stems from a succession of foster homes with families of varying…
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The Serpent Dance by Sofia Slater

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This intriguing contemporary whodunnit is a mystery, but it’s also like a trip back in time to an era when Cornish midsummer revelry involved bonfires, ancient Celtic music, river offerings and wicker animals being consumed in the ritual pyre. American author Sofia Slater draws on…
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French Windows by Antoine Laurain

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Translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie — The unconventional short novel French Windows by French author Antoine Laurain proves once again that delving into another person’s psyche is tricky business. You know from the cover that the book is a murder mystery, but what is this…
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