Ordinary Grace
Written by William Kent Krueger — William Kent Krueger is already well known for his Cork O’Conner mystery series, but he has given us something a little bit different in Ordinary Grace. It’s the summer of 1961 in the small town of New Bremen, Minnesota, where…
The Red Star of Cádiz
Written by Ōsaka Gō — This is an unusual book by any standards. Written in 1986 by one of Japan’s most versatile authors it has been translated here into English for the first time. Osaka Go’s work sells consistently well in his home country, and this novel…
The Boy From Reactor 4 by Rest Stelmach
The Boy From Reactor 4 is Orest Stelmach‘s debut novel, having had some success with his short stories in the past. The author is a first generation Ukrainian-American, and he’s put his background plus a good deal of research about his mother country to excellent…
The Killing Pool
Written by Kevin Sampson — Welcome to The Killing Pool, a book that’s so dark you may well need a torch to read it. Set in the mean streets of Liverpool, it features the lowest of lowlifes – and I don’t just mean the criminals. Liverpool…
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
In the sullen heat of backwoods North Carolina, an old general store has been converted into a church. But the windows are covered in newspaper, and what goes on during worship is hidden from view. The pastor is Carson Chambliss, a saturnine and secretive man…