Tastes Like Fear
Remember when Sarah Hilary’s debut novel Someone Else’s Skin was released to acclaim two years ago? We certainly do. And how quickly the West Country writer has become one of the UK’s leading voices when it comes to psychological crime fiction. Her third novel, Tastes…
Hard Light by Elizabeth Hand
You know you’re on a weird ride when out of the blue an 11-year-old girl in the story asks, “Do you want to see the dead babies?” That happens about two-thirds of the way into Hard Light, the third Cass Neary novel by American writer…
12 great British cities, 12 great UK crime novels
The UK seems to be in turmoil after the EU referendum, with outies fighting with innies across the land. Cat has turned on dog, husband on wife, and fish has turned on frog. There’s been no shortage of online abuse, the atmosphere has been toxic…
The Hanging Club by Tony Parsons
Our main character here, DC Max Wolfe, has appeared in The Murder Bag and The Slaughterman. He’s based at West End Central police station, which sits among London’s finest tailor shops on Savile Row. The case Wolfe faces in The Hanging Club bursts into gruesome life when the video of an apparent…
The Vinyl Detective by Andrew Cartmel
The Vinyl Detective isn’t actually a real detective. He’s just a young, single Londoner whose name is never revealed. A jazz fanatic, he makes his living digging through the crates at record fairs and in charity shops looking for rare vinyl being sold cheap. When…
The Detective and the Devil by Lloyd Shepherd
Melding real life and fiction is a delicate balancing act, but one that Lloyd Shepherd has successfully pulled off in three previous historical thrillers. This is his fourth to feature the indefatigable Constable Charles Horton of London’s River Police. It’s 1815, and Horton is called upon…