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Close to the Bone

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Written by Stuart Macbride — Aberdeen, and the granite walls of the city frown down upon a wave of violent and macabre crimes. A body is found on waste ground, hideously disfigured by having a burning tyre hung round its neck. A succession of Asian men…
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Hit Me

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Written by Lawrence Block — Hit Me is the fifth collection featuring Block’s stamp collecting professional hit man, Keller, and the author has been talking about a special, philatelic collector’s edition. That special run of 500 copies has been put together by Mysterious Press but…
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Human Remains

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Written by Elizabeth Haynes — Eleanor Rigby is one of my favourite Beatles songs, with its haunting lyric, “All the lonely people, where do they all come from?” You might dismiss it as a sorrowful composition rooted in the 1960s, but that’s where you’d be…
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The Expats by Chris Pavone

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Moving to Luxembourg with her very average husband Dexter, Kate Moore, who is an ex CIA agent turned full time mum, expects a life of leisure looking after the kids and touring Europe on weekends. What she doesn’t bargain for is discovering that her new best…
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Dead Water

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Written by Ann Cleeves — Some books wouldn’t be the same if they were set somewhere else. Imagine, for example, Sherlock Holmes looking for clues in Bradford, or Morse meandering around Manchester. The same applies to Dead Water, which really wouldn’t work outside of the…
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Never Saw It Coming

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Written by Linwood Barclay — My introduction to the work of top-selling author Linwood Barclay is a slim volume, which I found somewhat off-putting, being one of those make ’em thick, read ’em quick kind of girls. But I hadn’t reckoned on Barclay’s consummate skill as…
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