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Truth Dare Kill by Gordon Ferris

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Over the last five years, Gordon Ferris has established himself as a distinctive Scottish voice in crime fiction. He’s written one successful series featuring private detective Danny McRae, and another with investigative journalist Douglas Brodie. Truth Dare Kill was his debut, though it’s worth revisiting…
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Saint Homicide by Jake Hickson

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Saint Homicide opens with the narrator of this tale, Daniel, in prison. He explains that he’s guilty of the crime he’s been convicted for and this gritty noir novella explains how he ended up inside. Daniel is an anti-abortionist, somewhere in America’s Bible Belt. So…
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Treachery by SJ Parris

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It’s been two years since Sacrilege, the last book in critic and feature writer SJ Parris’ Giordano Bruno series. Set in Elizabethan times, Treachery picks up the story one year later and we find Bruno and his friend, Sir Philip Sidney, heading to Plymouth. Their…
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Never Look Back

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Written by Clare Donoghue — Detective Inspector Mike Lockyer, working in South East London, has his hands full with a triple murder. A serial killer is on the loose and the victims, all young women, have similar profiles. And it’s assumed the killer is just…
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Irène

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Written by Pierre Lemaitre, translated by Frank Wynne — The first Pierre Lemaitre book to be translated into English, Alex, was one of my top reads of 2013 and a deserving joint winner of the CWA International Dagger. It shared the award with the Ghost…
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Slow Horses by Mick Herron

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Written by Mick Herron — In October 2013, Mick Herron picked up the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger for his espionage thriller Dead Lions. Here on Crime Fiction Lover we agreed, and awarded the quirky espionage thriller five stars in our review. With such recognition for…
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