DavidPrestidge: Top five books of 2013
As the year comes to a close, each of our writers will be revealing their five favourite crime novels of 2013. This December, we start with our stalwart writer and site administrator DavidPrestidge… Rather like ever-escalating grades in school exams, it seems that every crop…
Light of the World by James Lee Burke
This is the 20th in a long and successful series featuring Dave Robicheux, a haunted and intense police officer from the New Orleans area. The author gives us a change of scenery in, though, with Robicheux and his unpredictable friend Cletus Purcel leaving behind the…
CIS: The first female detectives
We’ve just been celebrating the 123rd birthday of Agatha Christie, who created spinster sleuth Miss Marple in 1926. But if you thought Marple was the first female literary detective – albeit, an amateur – you might be surprised to learn you were out by several…
New books from crime fiction's masters!
On the Radar — It’s something of a rarity to find seven – yes, SEVEN – new books by established masters of the genre hitting the shelves at around the same time. But this week, that’s just what we have. Seven of the biggest names…
PulpCurry: the five books that got me hooked on crime fiction
When it all comes down to it, I have to credit my late father for getting me hooked on crime fiction. My dad loved writers like Carter Brown, Mickey Spillane and Ian Fleming. He passed on his taste in books to me, particularly his love…
Grit Lit: An intro to Southern Noir
The American south is a hot, sticky, vast place with a rich history, spanning all the way from Texas, through to Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and on into North Carolina. Also called the Deep South, this was often used to refer to the seven states that…
DavidPrestidge: Top five books of 2012
It’s been a year when self-publishing and the rise of the digital book have made a huge impact on the range of crime fiction available to reviewers and the reading public. Anyone who has the stamina and bloody-mindedness to plan, plot and complete a book can…