The top 10 crime novels on Kobo, with Simon Brett
Kobo is Canada’s answer to the Kindle. It’s a device that millions of people prefer to use for their e-reading pleasure. The company has recently come through with a list of the 10 bestselling crime novels of the last five years via the Kobo Store. The…
Get a free ebook from Caffeine Nights
Today we got an email from the independent crime publisher Caffeine Nights, and it had a pretty tasty Christmas offer inside that you too can take advantage of. The company is giving everyone who has subscribed to its email newsletter their choice of a free…
Free ebook: Murder in Ancient China
If your bank balance is on the ropes after the financial pounding we call The Holiday Season, have no fear. You can still enjoy your crime fiction thanks to the University of Chicago Press. Every month, the publisher issues a free ebook, and once in…
Sistine
Written by Michael Hogan — If you love a comfortable murder-detection-solution book, then look away now. Oh, yes, there’s one other thing. Are you a devout Roman Catholic? Once again, you may wish to revisit something more warmly reassuring, like a Father Brown story, or…
Wake in Fright
Written by Kenneth Cook — Rural noir is big at the moment, if the interest in US writers like Donald Ray Pollock, Cormac McCarthy and Daniel Woodrell, is anything to go by. But while it is not be as well known, Kenneth Cook’s 1961 novel…
CIS: The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
Classics in September — Anyone over a certain age will know what I’m talking about. You’re listening to the radio when a song you’ve not heard for a while comes on. Soon you’re singing along – and you know all the words too. The kick…
Sparkle
Written by Rudy Yuly — In a luxurious house in the hills above Seattle, Assistant DA Silver, his wife and their six-year-old daughter Lucy are found brutally beaten to death. Detective George Louis and his partner Pinky Bjorgesen are assigned the case. Once the forensic…