I am Dust by Louise Beech
The work of Hull-based author Louise Beech is really difficult to categorise. This is a writer who isn’t constrained by genre and her free-flowing style is all the better for it. You won’t find all of her work in the crime section at the book…
The Secret Admirer by Carol Wyer
Fans of Carol Wyer’s series of police procedurals featuring DI Natalie Ward were left with their mouths agape at the end of her last book, The Blossom Twins. Ward had suffered a devastating loss, and as The Secret Admirer opens it is just three months…
Wild Dog by Serge Joncour
Translated by Jane Aitken & Polly Mackintosh — Novelist and screenwriter Serge Joncour brings us a dual narrative set in a small, rural town high up in the French mountains with Wild Dog, his first novel to appear in English. The year is 2017 and…
The Museum of Desire by Jonathan Kellerman
Visiting LA after reading a Jonathan Kellerman novel is a wonderful experience. Described in sparse but vivid prose, the city and its suburbs, strip malls and beach-side bars are such a part of his mysteries, that once you’ve read a few novels in the 35-strong…
You Don't Know Me by Sara Foster
Do you stick to reading in one genre or are there times when you like to explore something new? Crime fiction has so many tempting sub-genres, it’s easy to make a detour or two without straying too far from the usual bloodstained path. But what…
Seven Lies by Elizabeth Kay
Elizabeth Kay’s debut domestic noir novel is an immersive journey into a friendship of some 20 years’ duration. Jane and Marnie have been inseparable since age 11, through college, through their first London jobs, and while they could finish each other’s sentences, narrator Jane doesn’t…
Little Disasters by Sarah Vaughan
According to NHS statistics, postnatal depression affects more than one in 20 women within a year of giving birth. In Little Disasters, Sarah Vaughan takes on the unspoken, often stigmatised occurrence of postnatal depression and its potentially devastating effects. Liz Trenchard is senior registrar in…