The Last Whisper in the Dark
Last year’s literary crime thriller The Last Kind Words went down a storm with us. We reviewed it and gave it five stars, and MyBookishWays included it in her top five books of 2012. In that book career, thief Terrier Rand was called home to…
Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson
In a cutting which once carried a railway line that Dr Beeching took his knife to in the 1960s, a corpse is discovered. It is Gavin Millar, a disgraced former lecturer. Most oddly, despite his emaciated and scruffy appearance, he was carrying £5000 in cash….
Missing in Rangoon by Christopher G Moore
For well over 20 years Canadian lawyer turned crime writer Christopher G Moore has chronicled change in Thailand and the surrounding region through the character of Bangkok-based American private investigator, Vincent Calvino. Moore has penned 13 Calvino books. Most of them are set in Thailand,…
Redemption by Jussi Adler-Olsen
The miserable and sardonic Copenhagen police detective Carl Mørck is back, and this time he plays the main role in a story that has something for just about every stripe of crime fiction lover. Mørck is the head of Department Q, headquartered in the basement…
Graveland by Alan Glynn
Graveland is the final instalment in Alan Glynn’s loose trilogy of critically acclaimed thrillers charting the intersection of crime and big business. A few old faces make a return but the real link between the books is a mood of mistrust and cynicism, as well…
Poppet by Mo Hayder
Odd things have been happening at Beechway’s psychiatric unit, and AJ LeGrande, recently promoted from his nursing position, is becoming increasingly worried, not only about his staff, but about the patients. Workers have been calling in sick in order to avoid the nightshift and AJ…