NTN: Tequila Sunset
Written by Sam Hawken — First off, let’s just point out that Sam Hawken’s second novel has a fantastic cover. This folk art-style treatment of a Dia de los Muertos skull is striking, not least of all because of its impressive gold foil teeth (which…
Killing Daniel
Written by Sarah Dobbs — This book starts off with a bang – one of the most gripping opening chapters I’ve read in a while. It captures perfectly that sense of nightmare-ish unease and fear which the two main protagonists experience throughout the book. Dark,…
Killer Move
Written by Michael Marshall — This is the latest offering from the British-born author whose bestselling first novel The Straw Men, published in 2001, took readers into a frightening vision of small town America. Conspiracy was layered upon conspiracy and nothing was what it seemed….
Death on the Pont Noir
Written by Adrian Magson — December 1963. A few short weeks since Kennedy was shot in Dallas and, in France, De Gaulle is no stranger to assassination attempts either. When the president’s chief bodyguard shows up at the Amiens police headquarters, Inspector Lucas Rocco finds…
Seconds Away
Written by Harlan Coben — I have it on good authority that most of today’s young adult fiction is about vampires, zombies or wizards, or fits into a category called ‘urban fantasy’. Thankfully, Seconds Away features none of these – and doesn’t comply with the…
The Gingerbread House
Written by Carin Gerhardson — This book is the first in an intended series of crime thrillers set in the Stockholm district of Hammarby. The publisher and the editing team previously brought us Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. Here, Hammarby’s Violent Crimes Unit is headed by…