First look: Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty
There aren’t many trilogies around made up of five books, but it seems that Serpent’s Tail couldn’t get enough of Adrian McKinty‘s Sean Duffy series. After extending it to four books with Gun Street Girl last year, a fifth is on its way. Feast your…
Only We Know by Karen Perry
The author Karen Perry is, in fact, a crime-writing double act hoping to follow the success of Nicci French. Paul Perry and Karen Gillece are a poet and novelist who teamed up to pen psychological thrillers about familiy guilt and secrets. The Irish duo’s suspenseful…
Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty audiobook
Narrated by Gerard Doyle — One of the reasons I looked forward to listening to the audio version of this excellent police procedural was having heard Gerard Doyle’s version of Adrian McKinty’s first Sean Duffy book, The Cold Cold Ground. Like that earlier book, Gun…
The Killing of Bobbi Lomax by Cal Moriarty
Debut author Cal Moriarty was discovered after taking a course at the Faber Academy, and the publisher now has a fine writer on its hands who can weave a tale full of surprises and twists. Set in the early 1980s, the story begins when Bobbi Lomax is…
Win Code of a Killer on DVD
If you’ve missed ITV’s two-part drama Code of a Killer, which follows the true story of how DNA evidence was used for the first time to solve two Midlands murders in the mid-80s, then don’t worry. World Productions is releasing the DVD of the program on…
Fiddle City by Dan Kavanagh
When Julian Barnes’s pseudonymous PI novel Duffy was reissued earlier this year, the literary author found himself welcomed into the crime genre. Written under the name Dan Kavanagh, Duffy was a scandalously funny, violent and sordid debut from a writer who was clearly relishing a…
Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran
It’s an audacious move putting the name of your detective in the title of a novel, but Claire DeWitt is a big enough character to justify such confidence. The second novel in Sara Gran’s San Francisco crime series is a strange, heady narrative that draws…