The Contract
Written by JM Gulvin — The focus of JM Gulvin’s hardboiled crime series is Texas Ranger John Quarrie. He’s a Vietnam vet who rose to national prominence after he wrote to the president requesting clemency for a fellow soldier court-martialled for cowardice. In fact, Pious…
November Road by Lou Berney
Lou Berney’s 2015 novel The Long and Faraway Gone won a string of awards including the Edgar, Barry, McAvity and Anthony gongs. The author sets his latest novel in the aftermath of one of America’s defining moments, the assassination of John F Kennedy, and uses the…
Broken Windows
Written by Paul D Marks — Paul Marks’s second Duke Rogers PI thriller is a follow-up to the recently reissued White Heat, a Shamus award-winner in 2013. Rogers, principal narrator of this entertaining tale, has the sly humour of a modern-day Philip Marlowe and a…
A House of Ghosts
Written by WC Ryan — Blackwater Island lies of the Devon Coast. The year is 1917 and the Great War, still raging, has made the already rich arms manufacturer Lord Highmount even richer. However, the same conflict has also made him indescribably poorer. His two sons…
The Moving Blade
Written by Michael Pronko — Like Pronko’s debut crime novel The Last Train, The Moving Blade bills itself as a Tokyo mystery, a mystery intrinsically linked to one of the world’s biggest cities, written by an author who has lived there for an extended period…
All This I Will Give to You
Written by Dolores Redondo, translated by Michael Meigs — The first thing that grabs you about Spanish author Dolores Redondo’s latest novel is its unusual title. What does it mean? For most of the novel, it appears that more is being taken away from the…
The Birthday
Written by Carol Wyer — Carol Wyer arrived on the crime fiction scene just over a year ago, and since then readers have been treated to five books featuring Staffordshire DI Robyn Carter. Now the author has created a new central character for another series…