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On the Radar — Plenty to look forward to as March comes to a close, including John Connolly’s latest Charlie Parker mystery and new titles…

March 27, 2014
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Matt Scudder is back in new novella

18 Jan 2019

On the Radar — A new book from Lawrence Block is always big news, and this week we announce the arrival of A Time To…
Face your Nemesis

11 Jan 2019

On the Radar — Lots of themes and different styles this week, with a creepy occult thriller, The Murder House and a fish mystery set…

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First look: The Girl Who Danced with Death graphic novel

10 Jan 2019

Look away now if you think the work of dead authors shouldn’t be touched. But if you want to know what might have happened next…
The Crimson Rivers – new French crime drama

09 Jan 2019

Channel 4’s foreign crime drama service Walter Presents has announced plans to stream the French procedural crime show The Crimson Rivers. The first episode will…

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True Detective season 3 coming to Sky and HBO

01 Jan 2019

The first series was outstanding. The second series was so average that everyone wondered if a third would see the light of day. But if…
Luther season 5 comes to BBC One

28 Dec 2018

Remember the time DCI John Luther handcuffed London crime boss George Cornelius to a radiator and pretty much left him there to rot? Well, that’s…

Cold Breath
A mysterious Middle-eastern philanthropist, whisked into frigid Iceland under cover of darkness, is put up in a remote cabin. He’s a special guest of the…
Dark Sacred Night
Michael Connelly does a sterling job of melding old stager and newcomer together in this cracker of a book which finds the American crime author…
November Road
Edgar award winner Lou Berney’s latest stand-alone thriller has already appeared on numerous best of 2018 lists, including from two of our own contributors. November…
Beton Rouge
Simone Buchholz is one of the freshest, funniest voices in crime fiction to come out of Germany since Jakob Arjouni. In this story about caged…
101
Two clueless teenagers show up at a marijuana growing mecca in northern California’s Humboldt County, trailed by trouble in Tom Pitts’s excellent new thriller. A…
The Lost Man
This gives Jane Harper’s debut The Dry a run for its money in my book as the location returns to the Australian Outback after a trip to the…
Bleak Harbor
That ol’ chestnut, the missing teenager plotline, has been rolled out again but prepare for something a bit different in this stand alone tale from…
The Feral Detective
Many best-of-2018 lists include Jonathan Lethem’s quirky tale in which Manhattanite Phoebe Siegler’s search for a missing teenager takes her way out of her comfort…
When Trouble Sleeps
Leye Adenle takes you right to the heart of Nigerian corruption and electoral fraud in his topical political thriller. When Trouble Sleeps is an entertaining…
Good Samaritans
Will Carver makes his return to the crime fiction shelves with this audacious contemporary noir novel featuring four obsessive characters riding a veritable suburban rollercoaster…