The Shot by Sarah Sultoon
Award winning CNN journalist Sarah Sultoon made her name reporting from trouble spots all around the world. For her first crime novel, The Source – winner of the inaugural CFL Award for best debut – she stuck close to home, with a story involving a…
Disappeared by Bonnar Spring
What makes the Morocco setting of Bonnar Spring’s new international thriller Disappeared so exciting is the heady combination of romance and menace. American sisters Julie and Fay, both adults and married, are on their annual girls’ getaway. Fay suggested Morocco this time. In fact, she…
Outside by Ragnar Jonasson
Translated by Victoria Cribb — Here on Crime Fiction Lover we’ve been following the career of this Icelandic author since he first appeared in English translation with Snowblind in 2015. That was the first in Ragnar Jonasson’s Ari Thor series, about a small town cop…
Say Her Name by Dreda Say Mitchell and Ryan Carter
Unlucky for some, 13 could be a good number for therecently married writing duo of Dreda Say Mitchell and Ryan Carter as they publish their 13th novel together. Say Her Name is an absorbing psychological thriller with a bit of a family history angle to…
Smoke and Cracked Mirrors by Karen Charlton
Anyone who has ever been to York will have been struck by the city’s palpable sense of history. It boasts Roman walls and medieval streets, with the ancient York Minster imperiously towering above it all. But it is more recent occurrences that have inspired Karen…
Vanda by Marion Brunet
Translated by Katherine Gregor — Following up from her 2018 Grand Prix de Littérature prize winning novel, Summer of Reckoning, Marion Brunet brings us a claustrophobic, unsettling and gut-punching new book about a woman and her young son living on the fringes of society in…
After Everything You Did by Stephanie Sowden
Crime fiction land is awash with whodunnits, but whydunnits are a little thinner on the ground. Time to swell those sparse ranks with this gripping and original debut novel by Manchester author Stephanie Sowden. The setting couldn’t be much further away from Sowden’s home city…