Forty Thieves by Thomas Perry
Thomas Perry is an American thriller writer famous for his 1982 debut, The Butcher’s Boy, which we wrote about here in our feature on influential first novels. He also wrote the Jane Whitefield series about a Native American guide who helps the desperate disappear, and has…
The Crossing by Michael Connelly audiobook
Written by Michael Connelly, narrated by Titus Welliver — What a pleasure it is to enter the Los Angeles airspace of Harry Bosch and his half-brother Mickey Haller. Teaming up his two protagonists from the Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer series was a brilliant move by…
A Better Goodbye
Written by John Schulian — If you’ve always wondered what goes on in those sketchy massage parlours, this expertly written and well paced debut thriller is your chance to find out. Set in Los Angeles on the bitter fringes of the entertainment industry and reeking of fake…
NTN: Tim Baker interviewed
Tim Baker’s debut novel, Fever City, is due to be published by Faber & Faber in January 2016 but it’s already generating quite a buzz. Though it deals with the Kennedy assassination – widely treated in crime fiction by the likes of James Ellroy, Don…
The Crossing by Michael Connolly
I was never very good at maths but you need an abacus to crunch the numbers where Michael Connelly is concerned. A search of Google tells me he has now written 28 novels. The Crossing is the 20th to feature Hieronymus ‘Harry’ Bosch, and in…
Vortex by Paul D Marks
Vortex is a first-person narrated novella which readers can blast through in a couple of hours. It’s a hardboiled thriller with strong noir overtones, and is about the past – how you can’t change it or the mistakes you’ve made, and how the past changes…