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Airing in a Closed Carriage by Joseph Shearing

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First published in 1943 under the pseudonym Joseph Shearing, Marjorie Bowen’s Airing in a Closed Carriage combines historical fiction, psychological examination and crime writing. Now part of the British Library Crime Classics series, it is a quietly unsettling exploration of suspicion, cruelty and the suffocating…
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The End of the Sahara

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Translated by Alexander E Elinson — In The End of the Sahara, a murder mystery by Saïd Khatabi, the story of who killed Algerian nightclub singer Zakia Zaghouani is slowly turned and examined from all sides like a colourfully refracting glass ball. This is the…
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Red Star Down by DB John

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In 2018, Star of the North marked Welsh author DB John out as a first-rate thriller writer earning comparisons to Terry Hayes’ I Am Pilgrim. It was complex, multi-layered – a rare story that focussed on North Korea. It covered the mystery surrounding the disappearance…
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