Cast-Iron Men
Written by Dominic Kearney — As 2007 draws to a close, the city of Liverpool looks like a giant building site as it prepares to take centre stage as the 2008 European City of Culture. It’s a huge fillip for a city that has been…
Where the Dead Men Go by Liam McIlvanney
Somehow I managed to miss All the Colours of the Town, Liam McIlvanney’s debut, but after reading a couple of pages of his latest I went straight to Amazon and bought a copy, because this man writes up a storm. Where the Dead Men Go,…
Devil with a Gun by MC Grant
With all of the recent fuss about writers’ pseudonyms, perhaps MC Grant is justified in telling us up front that this name is a not so heavily disguised version of his actual name, Grant McKenzie, under which he has written a number of fast-paced international…
The Other Woman
Written by Hank Phillippi Ryan – The Other Woman is a title, and a phrase, shot through with double meaning in Ryan’s engaging thriller. Double meanings abound throughout Ryan’s tale, much to my delight. The publisher is billing the upcoming paperback release as a ‘beach…
Watch You Die
Written by Katia Lief – The phone rings while Darcy Mayhew is making dinner and suddenly her life is turned upside down. Her husband Hugo has been in an accident while driving on Middle Road and now he is dead. Nearly two years later she…
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
You’ve read this, right? If not there isn’t a better time. This is the crime thriller that exemplifies the now-popular sub-genre of Scandinavian crime fiction and begins the Millennium Trilogy. Damaged and seemingly semi-autistic Lisbeth Salander – she of said tattoo – brings her cold…