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Vanda by Marion Brunet

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

20 April, 2022

Translated by Katherine Gregor — Following up from her 2018 Grand Prix de Littérature prize winning novel, Summer of Reckoning, Marion Brunet brings us a claustrophobic, unsettling and gut-punching new book about a woman and her young son living on the fringes of society in…

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After Everything You Did by Stephanie Sowden

By DeathBecomesHer

19 April, 2022

Crime fiction land is awash with whodunnits, but whydunnits are a little thinner on the ground. Time to swell those sparse ranks with this gripping and original debut novel by Manchester author Stephanie Sowden. The setting couldn’t be much further away from Sowden’s home city…

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The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

14 April, 2022

Translated by KL Seegers — The infamous police detective and recovering alcoholic, Benny Griessel, is back in South African author Deon Meyer’s 14th crime novel. This time the setting is Meyer’s home town, Stellenbosch, and real life events and fiction merge into a compelling, rip-roaring…

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Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J Farmer

By Erin Britton

14 April, 2022

Death of a Bookseller, the 100th title to be published in the British Library’s sublime Crime Classics series, marks a welcome return to print for Bernard J Farmer. As Martin Edwards notes in his informative introduction to this new edition, copies of the previously long…

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Cover Story by Susan Rigetti

By Vicki Weisfeld

12 April, 2022

Like a clever jigsaw puzzle, Susan Rigetti’s crime fiction debut, Cover Story, about a world-class financial swindler and con artist gives you a lot of pieces, and it takes a while for them to start fitting together, allowing the full picture to emerge. The story…

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The Corpse with the Turquoise Toes by Cathy Ace

By Erin Britton

11 April, 2022

In The Corpse with the Turquoise Toes, the 12th cosy mystery featuring Cait Morgan and Bud Anderson, Cathy Ace delights in derailing yet another holiday for her devoted detective duo. An internationally renowned criminal psychologist and a retired homicide detective, respectively, Cait and Bud are…

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1979 by Val McDermid

By DeathBecomesHer

7 April, 2022

What constitutes a historical crime novel? That’s something I mused upon while reading this book, the first in a new series from the queen of crime, Val McDermid, featuring journalist Allison ‘Allie’ Burns. Unsurprisingly, it is set in… 1979. But that’s only a handful of…

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Dead Wind by Tessa Wegert

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

6 April, 2022

In the third novel in Tessa Wegert’s Shana Merchant series, our protagonist and her colleague, Tim Wellington, are called out to Wolfe Island, Ontario, where the body of a middle-aged woman has been found at the base of a wind turbine at a wind farm…

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Vanda by Marion Brunet

After Everything You Did by Stephanie Sowden

The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer

Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J Farmer

Cover Story by Susan Rigetti

The Corpse with the Turquoise Toes by Cathy Ace

1979 by Val McDermid

Dead Wind by Tessa Wegert

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