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The Girl in Berlin

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Written by Elizabeth Wilson — It is the summer of 1951, and despite the manufactured optimism of The Festival of Britain, London is finding it hard to shake off the downbeat mood of austerity. Jack McGovern is a detective working with Special Branch. There is…
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Cop to Corpse

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Written by Peter Lovesey — This author has a long and distinguished history in British crime fiction and his belt sports just about every kind of dagger the Crime Writers’ Association awards. He even served as CWA chairman for a spell back in the 90s….
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A Detailed Man

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Written by David Swinson — The central character in A Detailed Man is a Washington policeman – detective Ezra Simeon. He is a loner, with a divorced wife and a platonic best friend, both back in California. He’s recently been afflicted by Bell’s Palsy, a…
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Taken

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Written by Robert Crais — The American-Mexican border has always been a fertile area for crime fiction. Mexican organised crime cartels battle each other, and various American government agencies, to control the area. At the same time they turn profitable businesses trafficking guns, drugs and…
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Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death

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Written by James Runcie — GK Chesterton brought us the Father Brown stories, Ralph McInery the Father Dowling mysteries and Anne Emery wrote about Father Brennan Burke. Clergymen turning into amateur sleuths may not be a new phenomenon but it’s definitely a formula that works…
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Winter at Death's Hotel

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Written by Kenneth Cameron — Winter at Death’s Hotel is a crime novel I saw reviewed in a national Sunday paper. I bought it expecting a cosy and warm few hours’ journey through the literary conventions of a pastiche Victorian detective story. I could not…
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Father Unknown

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Written by Fay Sampson – Genealogy is something that has enjoyed booming popularity lately thanks to programmes like Who Do You Think You Are? and widespread access to websites full of the kind of records you need to trace your family tree. With skeletons being…
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Bloodman

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Written by Robert Pobi — Canto XII of Dante’s Inferno takes place in the First Ring of the Seventh Circle of Hell where sinners who used violence against others suffer for all eternity in a boiling river of blood. Bloodman is Montreal writer Robert Pobi’s…
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