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…
A Commonplace Killing
Written by Siân Busby — Siân Busby tragically passed away in 2012, but she gave us two non-fiction works (A Wonderful Little Girl and The Cruel Mother), a children’s book, and two works of fiction entitled McNaughten and A Commonplace Killing. The latter she finished…
The Silent Wife
Written by ASA Harrison – Publishers and readers alike have been searching for the ‘new’ Gone Girl, following the critical and commercial success of Gillian Flynn’s crime crossover hit about a warring couple who become headline news when she disappears. Official end-of-year sales UK figures…
The Preacher by Sander Jakobsen
The idea of the wicked preacher man is a powerful one in crime fiction and beyond – just think of Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter. However, The Preacher is not about a Bible-thumping baddie. Thorkild Christensen, the unassuming vicar of Roslinge in Denmark,…
Downfall by Jeff Abbott
Author of 14 previous novels, Jeff Abbott has been described as the thriller writers’ favourite. And some pretty big names – think Coben, Child and Connelly – heap praise on his work in the inside cover of this book. He also won the International Thriller…
The Outsider by Arlene Hunt
As the weather begins to thaw after a snowy Christmas in rural Ireland, a search party is methodically checking the soggy fields and pastures, looking for Gully Donovan, who hasn’t been seen for days. The discovery of a body face down in a swollen brook…