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The Man Who Never Returned

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Written by Peter Quinn — Fintan Dunne, Quinn’s private detective from his pre-WW2 mystery Hour of the Cat, is just about to reluctantly hang up his hat. Retirement beckons and wife Roberta is looking forward to their new life in Playa de Oro, Florida. However,…
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Cage Of Bones

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Written by Tania Carver — Cage of Bones is the third book from Tania Carver. Following up on the success of The Creeper and The Surrogate, this story promises to be the best in the series thus far. It opens with a couple of Colchester builders…
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Riot Act

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Written by Zoe Sharp — Riot Act is a tale of a damaged but strong woman thrust into events she initially tries to avoid. House sitting for a friend seems at first to be a simple favour, however as rampant property crime in the neighborhood…
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The Adjustment by Scott Phillips

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Best known for his first novel The Ice Harvest, which was adapted for the screen, Scott Phillips has at last brought out The Adjustment, his first novel since 2003. I’ll tell you right off the bat that I think it’s at least as good, if…
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Good as Dead

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Written by Mark Billingham – Good as Dead is the fifth Tom Thorne novel, and the first since last year’s TV dramatisation that fortified Mark Billingham as one of the UK’s premium crime fiction novelists. For fans of Billingham, this latest instalment exhibits all the…
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What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman

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This book comes from American author Laura Lippman – a newspaper reporter turned detective fiction writer. She was raised in Baltimore, a city with a strong connection to Edgar Allen Poe,  arguably the inventor of the genre we enjoy so much. This city provides the…
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Far South

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Written by David Enrique Spellman – Written as the casebook of Juan Manuel Perez, Far South follows his detailed investigation into the disappearance of enigmatic theatre director, Gerardo Fischer. But what makes it so new and experimental is that at certain points the story points you…
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