Sirens
Written by Joseph Knox — Disgraced Detective Constable Aidan Waits has been caught stealing drugs and publicly humiliated. His boss, Superintendent Parrs, is an uncompromising Scot with ambiguous motivations who takes the opportunity to make Waits an offer he simply can’t refuse. He can go to…
Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly
Written by Adrian McKinty — Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly is the sixth book in Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy series. It opens with RUC detective Duffy being led at gunpoint deep into the woods by a small group of thugs. His life cooly flashes before…
The Hanging Tree
Written by Ben Aaronovitch — The Hanging Tree is the sixth book in the highly entertaining Rivers of London series, which debuted back in 2011. Police procedural is mixed rather nicely with a heavy dose of urban fantasy, and a side order of humour. PC Peter…
NTN: Cambodia Noir
Written by Nick Seeley — This year has seen the rise of some impressive new stars in crime fiction, authors whose novels are set in far-flung European locales, Scandinavian landscapes, and urban America. Perhaps none is more stellar than Nick Seeley whose debut novel, Cambodia Noir, is set in…
Triple Crown
Written by Felix Francis — Carrying on his father’s series of horse racing mysteries from the year 2000 – when Dick Francis retired – Felix Francis has fallen into a perfect gallop with them. Triple Crown is his fifth novel writing solo, after having co-written several with his…
Shadows the Sizes of Cities
Written by Gregory W Beaubien — In this tension-filled debut thriller, you get rather quickly to the point where you don’t trust anyone – and that includes first-person narrator Will Clark, who claims to be a travel writer from Chicago. Yet it always seems possible that…