Sleep Tight
Written by Rachel Abbott – Lost something recently? Forever wondering where you left your glasses/car keys/pen/boyfriend? Perhaps the last item in the list might sound a little far fetched – but not for Liv Hunt. Because one day, just a couple of months after she…
Gone on Kauai
Written by Bruce W Perry — On the Hawaiian island of Kauai, a beautiful American woman hires a paddle board from a beach outlet and pushes herself off into the calm and crystal clear ocean. Only her battered board returns. Amanda Wilcox is the daughter…
Therapy
Written by Sebastian Fitzek, translated by Sally-Ann Spencer — Sebastian Fitzek is going to be the next big name in crime fiction coming out of Germany. At least, that’s what the Sphere imprint of Little, Brown is betting on. The publisher has just acquired the…
Generation Loss
Our writer Crime Fiction Lover laps up Scandinavian crime novels like there’s no tomorrow, so it’s something of a departure to find his top book of 2013 is set in Maine. Photographer Cass Neary heads up to a remote island to interview another photographer who…
Lies of the Dead by Shauna Bickley
Tom Trethowan is content to lead a quiet life in a sleepy Cornish village. But his peace is shattered when the police arrive at his cottage door. Tom’s wayward brother, Liam, is missing. He was last seen aboard Tom’s boat, the Kalina – and the…
Interview: Helen FitzGerald
Helen Fitzgerald’s latest novel, The Cry, looks set to be one of 2013’s most talked about psychological thrillers. It’s he story of a young couple who suffer every parent’s worst nightmare, the disappearance of their baby. But are Joanna and Alistair as innocent as they…
Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indridason
Translated by Victoria Cribb — Sad news for fans of Iceland’s Arnaldur Indridason. Strange Shores is the last in the series featuring Detective Erlendur. After wonderful novels like Jar City, Silence of the Grave and Hypothermia, one of the great detectives of Nordic noir is bowing…