Good Girls Die Bored by Elizabeth Little
Do Good Girls Die Bored, as the title of Elizabeth Little’s new crime thriller suggests? One thing is certain, readers of this alternatingly funny and hair-raising book will not. The protagonist, Juno Hardwick, is a US Marine Corps veteran who learned a lot of ways…
Dirty Myrtle by Kennedy Weible
This new crime novel by Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, native Kennedy Weible is one of those books that makes me wish I took notes. Dirty Myrtle just has much going on! So many characters! It might have been easier to keep them straight if I…
First Look: The Art of Getting Hammered by Joanna Wallace
We loved You’d Look Better as a Ghost by Joanna Wallace – so much so that it earned a five-star review here on the site. Our readers loved it too, voting it the Best Debut Novel of 2023 in the Crime Fiction Lover Awards that…
Murder Mindfully by Karsten Dusse
Translated by Florian Duijsens — Criminal defence lawyer Björn Diemel is a character who finds maintaining a work-life balance slightly challenging in Murder Mindfully by German crime author Karsten Dusse. The fact that he represents Berlin’s most dangerous criminals, specifically the volatile mob boss Dragan…
An Enigma by the Sea by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini
Translated by Gregory Dowling — A lot of Italian crime fiction in English is dark, mafia-related or snowbound. Manzini, Carlotto, de Cataldo and Roberto Saviano spring to mind. The Fruttero and Lucentini novels are different, lighter, witty, slightly eccentric and colourful but no less steeped…
Murder Tide by Stella Blómkvist
Translated by Quentin Bates — It’s not for her loveable nature that Stella Blómkvist is the most popular and successful defence lawyer in Iceland, she is a winner, pure and simple, tenacious and formidable. A little and sometimes a lot scary, Stella is exactly who…
Everyone in the Group Chat Dies by LM Chilton
Love it or hate it, social media has inveigled itself into our lives and there’s little chance of escaping its all-encompassing reach. Take WhatsApp, for instance. Once you succumb to its charms, you’ll find yourself in group after group, each one pinging away as members…