Interview: DE Meredith
When DE Meredith wrote her first novel, Devoured, she offered it to various UK publishers. Set in Victorian London, it introduced us to the earliest CSIs in the form of her sleuths Hatton and Roumande. Yet even though family history, British heritage and Victoriana have…
Frank's Wild Years by Nick Triplow
Frank Neaves is a barfly. He is pretty much down-and-out in the London postcode SE8, and the centre of his known world is the public bar of the John Evelyn pub in Deptford. When he’s in funds he can nurse a pint like a long-distance…
Baptism
Written by Max Kinnings — In the bathroom of an evangelical Christian commune in the Welsh hills, an elderly monk is found stabbed to death. Three of the younger members – an ex-soldier, and a brother and sister traumatised as children by a savage murder-suicide…
The Girl in Berlin
It’s summer 1951 and London is feeling the downbeat mood of austerity. Jack McGovern is a detective with Special Branch. High level British diplomats have defected to the Russians and he’s told to investigate Colin Harris, a British communist who has recently returned from East…
FREE magazine: Underground Book Club issue 2
Attention London commuters who love crime fiction! We’ve been working for a little while now with a start-up publication called Underground Book Club and today issue two of their free magazine is being distributed at stations in London. Its aim is to spread the word…
The Two
Detective January David is struggling to move on from the events of Girl 4, Carver‘s last book. Separated from his wife, he is drinking copiously and immersing himself in his mother’s journals, trying to find more clues about his sister’s disappearance. When bodies start turning…