Bloodland by Alan Glynn
A conspiracy thriller that moves with ease between recession-hit Ireland, the killing fields of Congo and the political wrangling of the United States, Bloodland is a fast, furious and depressingly plausible story. This is not the kind of book I would normally pick up, as I find conspiracy…
The Black Box
Written by Michael Connelly — This year, we crime fiction lovers have celebrated 20 years of acquaintance with LAPD Detective Hieronymus ‘Harry’ Bosch. Michael Connelly’s first little gift to us was the reissue of The Black Echo, the book in which Harry first appeared. Now…
NTN: Turn of Mind
Written by Alice LaPlante — For all of the artfully arranged tension and ever escalating gore in many crime novels it’s rare to put one down feeling genuinely disturbed. Rarer still to be thinking about it weeks later. But Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante…
NTN: Crusher
Written by Niall Leonard – Previously a screenplay writer, Niall Leonard wrote his first novel Crusher to take part in the NaNoWriMo novel-writing competition. The book was picked up by Random House and published this September. Finn Maguire is 17 years old. He works in…
NTN: White Heat by MJ McGrath
Melanie McGrath studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford, but instead of going on to join Britain’s governing class she decided to write excellent crime stories set in the far, far, far north of Canada. A commendable move on her part – and I’ll tell…
The Perils of Sherlock Holmes
Written by Loren D Estleman — Estleman is best known to crime fiction fans for his enduring series about Detroit PI Amos Walker. Indeed, we reviewed his latest, Burning Midnight, a few months back. However he’s also a noted Sherlockian, and his pastiches Sherlock Holmes…
NTN: The Dark Winter
Written by David Mark — We crime fiction lovers have a host of heroes. Whether it be Holmes or Hole, Rebus or Rhymes, our world is populated with canny crime fighters. In fact, our bookshelves and e-readers are packed to the gunwales with them. But…