iBookKindlePrintReviews

What It Was

By
Written by George Pelecanos — On a rainy afternoon, Nick Stefanos and Derek Strange are having drinks at Leo’s, two friends content enough to just sit down, barely talking. In the Rain by The Dramatics comes on the jukebox, igniting reminiscences about 1972, the year…
Read more
PrintReviews

Getting Off

By
Written by Jill Emerson — Returning to an old pseudonym, here the legend in the crime writing that is Lawrence Block goes back to what he describes as his ‘inner lesbian’. And in Getting Off, writing as Emerson, he regales us with a tale of sex…
Read more
KindlePrintReviews

Tom-All-Alone's by Lynn Shepherd

By
It seems rather apt that in the year we celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens that crime author Lynn Shepherd has chosen one of his books as the inspiration for her new novel, Tom-All-Alone’s. And it’s even more fitting that Crime Fiction…
Read more
KindlePrintReviews

Maxwell's Silver Hammer

By
Written by Andy Rivers — Maxwell’s Silver Hammer sounds like an odd name for a crime book, but here we have an excellent gangster-style novel, revealing what it’s like at the heart of council estates in the North of England. Billy Reeves has grown up…
Read more
KindlePrintReviews

Nights of Awe

By
Written by Harri Nykanen — With more than 30 published novels under his belt, Nights of Awe is the latest offering from Finnish crime journalist turned crime writer, Harri Nykanen, who has recently signed with Bitter Lemon Press. But it’s only the second of his books…
Read more
PrintReviews

Abide With Me

By
Written by Ian Ayris – The debut novel from Ian Ayris, a well known writer in online circles, Abide With Me will surely ensure that this author becomes well-known to a much wider audience, such is the quality of the book. Beginning in 1975, Abide With Me…
Read more