Cold Grave
Written by Craig Robertson — Random, Robertson’s first novel, is a firm fixture on my top 10 crimes novels. Genuinely chilling and with one of the most retch-inducing murders ever committed to paper it marked him out as an author to watch. His next, Snapshot,…
Ten-a-Week Steale
Written by Stephen Jared – Ten-a-Week Steale is a tale of old Hollywood written by someone who has spent his fair share of time in new Hollywood: actor Stephen Jared. Jared has previously written a pulp adventure story, Jack and the Jungle Lion, and his…
The Silence
Written by Alison Bruce — This is the fourth in the series of crime novels featuring DC Gary Goodhew. It is set in Cambridge, but not the Cambridge beloved of earlier novelists. Instead of stained glass, ancient college buildings, bright young things punting on the…
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
Stephen King made headlines a month ago when Hard Case Crime announced that they would be publishing his novel Joyland in June 2013. Joyland is an eagerly anticipated release, but it is not King’s first novel for Hard Case Crime. In 2005, the hardboiled imprint…
The Storm Without
Written by Tony Black — ‘Irvine Welsh’s favourite British crime writer.’ That is one hell of plaudit to live up to, but Tony Black has proven time and again that he is fully deserving of it. He’s a writer with an unflinching eye for brutality,…
Slip & Fall
Written by Nick Santora – Creative writing courses consistently tell their charges to write what you know. Nick Santora used to be a lawyer. Hopefully he’s never been a Mafioso, but after a career change he became a screenwriter on shows like The Sopranos and…
The Book of Souls
Written by James Oswald — James Oswald’s first foray into crime fiction, Natural Causes, has become a bona fide word-of-mouth hit. With over 100,000 downloads in a couple of months it dominated the Kindle free chart and received rave reviews. That all of this was…