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Collateral Death by J Kushley

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Crime fiction is a genre built on familiar tropes: the suspicious death, the damaged investigator, the institution that prefers easy answers over difficult truths. What makes a mystery novel memorable is not whether it uses these conventions but what it does with them. In Collateral…
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Six Mile Store by AM Belsey

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Six Mile Store, the engaging debut crime novella by AM Belsey, is narrated mostly by a young woman in her early 20s named Honey. The story at first appears to be almost a picaresque, as she colourfully describes her encounters with the customers of the…
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Phantom Pass by André M Louw

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South African author André M Louw makes a notable entrance to the crime genre with a debut that balances fully fleshed-out characters with a breakneck pace. The story commences with the discovery of Mark Whitcombe, a prominent 67-year-old retired lawyer whose mutilated corpse is found…
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The Peak by Sam Guthrie

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It’s been quite the decade for new spy fiction authors. David McCloskey has emerged as a real tour de force with four highly acclaimed novels, starting with Damascus Station while IS Berry, Charles Beaumont and Merle Nygate have also emerged as names to look out…
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