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Tokyo Zangyo by Michael Pronko

By nagaisayonara

9 September, 2021

Zangyo – or overtime – is what keeps the corporate wheels turning in Japan, and American author Michael Pronko’s newest novel, the fourth in the Detective Hiroshi series, examines the cost of this pressure to succeed. When a top-level manager at Senden Central is found…

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The Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves

By DeathBecomesHer

7 September, 2021

It is two years almost to the day since Ann Cleeves launched Detective Matthew Venn into the cutthroat world of crime fiction. He was new and green and had some tough acts to follow. After all, Cleeves is the creator of the hugely popular Vera…

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Heatwave by Victor Jestin

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

6 September, 2021

Translated by Sam Taylor — French author Victor Jestin’s short yet forceful debut novel is part dark coming-of-age novel, part morality tale. Set over the span of a weekend, it tells the story of a 17-year-old who witnesses another teenager dying and chooses not to…

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Killing Evil by John Nicholl

By crimefictionlover

5 September, 2021

After working for the police and in child protection, John Nicholl became a crime author and Killing Evil is his 14th psychological thriller. The difficult issues he dealt with in his previous career come to the fore and inform the story in Killing Evil. It’s…

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The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin

By Paul Burke

3 September, 2021

Laidlaw’s first big case. When William McIlvanney died in 2015, the importance of his Laidlaw novels to Scottish crime fiction was just beginning to be properly recognised. He’s now rightly seen as the godfather of Tartan noir. Intriguingly, McIlvanney left behind a half-written manuscript for…

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A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

By Paul Burke

1 September, 2021

Paula Hawkins’ debut, The Girl on the Train, with its truly inspired creation, damaged narrator Rachel, was always going to be a tough act to follow. Perhaps it was inevitable that her second novel, Into the Water, would struggle to meet high expectations. So with…

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Wayward Girls by Claire Matturro and Penny Koepsel

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 August, 2021

A novel that sets out to make a political point runs the risk of straying into the polemical – less novel, more essay. That’s a fate that co-authors Claire Matturro and Penny Koepsel manage to avoid with their new crime thriller, Wayward Girls. A dedication…

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The Heights by Louise Candlish

By DeathBecomesHer

19 August, 2021

A full cast of hugely relatable characters populate The Heights, Louise Candlish’s latest standalone psychological thriller, but the main one, the mover and shaker at the heart of all that transpires, is the whimsically named Ellen Saint. Wife, mother, businesswoman, as we meet Ellen she…

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Tokyo Zangyo by Michael Pronko

The Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves

Heatwave by Victor Jestin

Killing Evil by John Nicholl

The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

Wayward Girls by Claire Matturro and Penny Koepsel

The Heights by Louise Candlish

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