The Crime Interviews: Volume One
Written by Len Wanner — I was in the hairdressers last week and after the inevitable post-mortem of the previous night’s reality TV the conversation took a rather macabre turn when the girl in the next chair started talking about a book she was reading…
Death of a Kingfisher
Written by MC Beaton — Having penned over 100 books in a career spanning more than 30 years, Scottish writer MC Beaton is probably best known for her Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth novels. Her latest book, Death of a Kingfisher, takes us back to…
The Dispatcher
Written by Ryan David Jahn — The Dispatcher is an adrenaline- and fear-fueled adventure of hope and vengeance. It takes the reader on a journey through small towns across the country and into the souls of desperate and driven people. No quarter is given and…
Revenge of the Tide
Written by Elizabeth Haynes — Her debut novel, Into The Darkest Corner, has been translated into 10 languages, won two Amazon awards, selected for the 2012 Specsavers TV Book Club, and longlisted for the CWA John Creasy New Blood Dagger. Now police intelligence analyst Elizabeth…
Shut Your Eyes Tight
Written by John Verdon — This is the author’s second book, and the second outing for his detective Dave Gurney, a phenomenal investigator who has retired from the NYPD and lives with his wife Madeleine in the Catskill foothills in upstate New York. He must…
Hit and Run
Written by Doug Johnstone — Doug Johnstone’s previous novel Smokeheads was one hell of a read, a breakneck tear-up of a book following four blokes on a whiskey tour of Islay which descends into sex, drugs and extreme violence. Peat black and shot through with…
Raylan
Written by Elmore Leonard — This is the third novel, after Riding the Rap and Pronto, to feature US Marshall Raylan Givens. Having experienced only mixed success with film and TV adaptations of his work (anybody remember Karen Sisco, the short-lived spin-off from Out of…