Cross Purpose
Written by Claire MacLeary — You may think you know all there is to know about Tartan noir, but there is still tremendous appetite for crime fiction set in Scotland. So what can a debut novelist bring to the table that’s new and different from…
The Accusation
Written by Bandi — You won’t find a conventional thriller in this collection of modern-day short stories set in North Korea, and while you may find puzzlement, you won’t find much mystery. What you do find – on a vast, society-wide, top-to-bottom scale – is crime….
The Killing Bay
Written by Chris Ould — The Blood Strand, the first book in Ould’s Faroes series, was recommended for fans of Henning Mankell and Elizabeth George. The Killing Bay is book two and is also set on the remote Faroe Islands, featuring transplanted English policeman DI Jan Reyna. Reyna is…
A Banquet of Consequences
Written by Elizabeth George — Some books are a short, sharp satisfying experience – think that after-work pint you’ve been longing for all day. Others need a little time to sit and savour; a bottle of the red wine you’ve been saving since Christmas. A Banquet of Consequences definitely…
Written in Bones
Written by James Oswald — When the body of a man is discovered in Edinburgh parkland called The Meadows, Detective Inspector Tony McLean is called in to solve the puzzle. Because nothing is ordinary about the case central to James Oswald’s seventh DI McLean novel, Written in…
The Truth Itself by James Rayburn
By Roger Smith writing as James Rayburn — The South African crime novelist Roger Smith has written under a pseudonym before. In 2012 he wrote Vile Blood, a horror novel, under the name Max Wilde. In this latest book, Smith has again taken a step away…