City of Blood
Written by MD Villiers — South Africa – real life there can be so brutal that for some the country hardly needs crime fiction. Yet in this milieu of racial tension, huge divisions between rich and poor, widespread substance abuse and often mindless violence, crime authors…
Six Years
Written by Harlan Coben — Let’s face it, Harlan Coben has done just about everything an American crime author can do. His Myron Bolitar novels, in which an ex-basketball player solves crimes, won the author Edgar, Anthony and Shamus awards in the 1990s. Out of…
The Woman Who Walked into the Sea
Written by Mark Douglas-Home — It’s probably a bit easier for a journalist to launch a career in crime fiction. After all, they’ll be familiar with the editing process and are used to seeing their words cut, chopped, changed and rewritten. Having said that, with thousands…
The Flatey Enigma by Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson
Translated by Brian Fitzgibbon — Fortunately for us, two of the 10 Icelandic books selected for English translation by the new AmazonCrossing publishing initiative happen to be crime novels. One of them, The Flatey Enigma by Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson, was a welcome blip on the…
Voodoo Eyes
Written by Nick Stone — PI Max Mingus has settled into his routine of investigating cheating spouses when what would usually be a fairly standard case turns decidedly not-so-standard. However, that case takes a swift back seat when Max gets a call from his old…
The Weeping Girl
Written by Håkan Nesser — If you’re a lover of Scandinavian crime fiction, take warning. Most or the jacket quotes on the latest Håkan Nesser novel refer to the author’s Nordic Noir and Scandinavian crime fiction credentials. “Nesser is one of the best of the…
Eleven Days
Written by Stav Sherez — We first met Jack Carrigan and Geneva Miller last year, in Stav Sherez’s critically acclaimed and hugely successful A Dark Redemption. That book was set against a backdrop of Ugandan political unrest, while focusing on a grisly death on the…