Paid in Spades
Written by Richard Helms — In this fast-paced crime thriller, award-winning author Richard Helms guides you to the darker corners of New Orleans where the extravagant pleasures of the food, culture and music can turn deadly at any moment. Pat Gallegher has what can most…
Robicheaux: You Know My Name
Written by James Lee Burke — For a story setting that immediately and richly evokes a colourful geographic, cultural, moral, and culinary milieu, it’s hard to beat the hot, humid Cajun country of southern Louisiana. James Lee Burke has made Iberia Parish the primary home…
And So It Began
Written by Owen Mullen — It’s brave of a resident of Scotland and the Greek Islands to write a police procedural set in one of America’s most iconic cities, one with a strong and unique culture, history, and personality. Still, author Owen Mullen took the…
Sting
Written by Sandra Brown — What’s your guilty pleasure, when you’re not crime fiction loving? Mine’s Nora Roberts (and not in her JD Robb persona, either). I like her romantic novels, with their sharp characterisations and snappy dialogue. In Sandra Brown, I think I’ve found…
Slices of Night
Written by JT Ellison, Alex Kava and Erica Spindler–Slices of Night is a novella co-written by the authors JT Ellison, Alex Kava and Erica Spindler that traces a serial killer as he travels the country claiming victims. The authors use three separate locations and detectives…
If I Run
Written by Terri Blackstock — In a house in Shreveport, Louisiana, a journalist lies dead. He has bled out from savage stab wounds, inflicted by someone who knew exactly where to plunge the knife. A young woman flees the scene. Her bloody footprints surround Brent Pace’s…
The Bone Tree
This is the sequel to Greg Iles’ epic novel Natchez Burning and it tells the story of a decades-old battle in Louisiana and Mississippi between ruthless racist organisations and the forces of law and order. The Bone Tree itself is a semi-mythical dead tree in the…