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…
Malice in the Cotswolds
Written by Rebecca Tope — Fans of cosy crime fiction will probably already be familiar with the name of Rebecca Tope, but you needn’t feel you are missing out if this – the tenth book – is in fact your first encounter with the Cotswold mystery…
The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die by Colin Cotterill
The setting is Vientiane, Laos in the late 1970s. The country’s only coroner, Dr Siri Paiboun, now retired, is recalled to oversee the search for the body of the brother of a high-ranking minister. This was initiated when the corpse’s location was approximated by an…
The Ranger
Written by Ace Atkins — Army Ranger Quinn Colson is coming home. Home from Iraq. Home from Afghanistan. Home to Jericho, Mississippi, and his uncle’s funeral. Hampton Beckett was the County Sheriff until he put the barrel of a .44 in his mouth and pulled…
White Lilies
Written by RC Bridgestock — Authors Bob and Carol Bridgestock came to writing late. First there was the little matter of following a career, and both were employed by West Yorkshire Police – Bob as a copper for 30 years, holding every rank within the CID…
Dark Echoes
Written by Bruce Crowther — Harry Kenning and Billy Ross are former Hollywood actors who never quite hit the big time. Back in the 1950s, the glory days of Rialto Pictures Studios, they were better known as the Hurricane Kid and Smiley Browne, but they have…