You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott audiobook
Narrated by Lauren Fortgang – Known for her hardboiled and noir stories, Megan Abbott’s latest novel – reviewed here as an audiobook – captures a darker side of sporting competition to coincide with the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. America’s queen of noir has written a psychological thriller…
Skeletons in the Attic: A Marketville Mystery
Written by Judy Penz Sheluk — Abigail Barnstable disappeared without a trace 30 years ago, leaving behind her young husband Jimmy and six-year-old daughter Callie. Raised by her doting father, Callie reaches her mid-30s oblivious to a mountain of family secrets until Jimmy’s death in an…
Rage
Written by Zygmunt Miloszewski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones — East European characters are plentiful in Western crime novels – usually as villains – and it is past the point of being a cliche. However, we don’t see many crime novels translated from that part of the world. This is…
One Green Bottle by Chris Bausse
One Green Bottle is Curtis Bausse’s debut novel and came out last year. He is a British born writer who has lived in France for most of his life but now lives in Mayotte, a French dependency in the Indian Ocean. The book introduces Bausse’s…
Unquiet Souls by Liz Mistry
When the body of prostitute Sharon Asif is found in the snow dappled graveyard of a Bradford churchyard, DS Alice Cooper unwittingly opens a can of grisly worms. In the locked loft of the dead woman’s house are 20 children, two of them dead. It transpires…
I See You
Written by Clare Mackintosh — The simple things in life can transform into something terrifying when put in the hands of someone with a warped imagination. Take Alfred Hitchcock and his birds for example, or Stephen King’s car, Christine. Both take the day to day and turn it…
The Voices Beyond
Written by Johan Theorin, translated by Marlaine Delargy — Like the three previous books in Johan Theorin’s Öland Quartet, which are gothic thrillers rooted in the tradition of Nordic noir whose settings follow the passage of the seasons, the concluding book is set during a sleepy summer heat…