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Shifta by Miles Joyner

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Set in near future Washington, DC, Miles Joyner’s new technothriller, Shifta, seems almost too plausible, despite its futuristic touches. This is his second book about the Bazaarverse, a site on the Dark Web that functions as an assassination market. Because I hadn’t read the first…
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Faculty of Liars by RL Heber

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The new psychological thriller Faculty of Liars by RL Heber takes a close-in view of the world of a small, but prestigious New England university from the point of view of its new president’s wife. From the outset, you know she’s fallen prey to the…
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Lie To Me by DS Butler

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Every once in a while, it’s good to read outside of your comfort zone. Personally speaking, I have always been most interested in reading towards the more hard-boiled end of the crime fiction spectrum, for example the gritty realism of Don Winslow’s Cartel series, or…
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The Butterfly House by Teresa Solana

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Translated by Peter Bush — Teresa Solana’s The Butterfly House is an idiosyncratic crime novel in which murder, family complications, police politics and the economic woes of Barcelona become increasingly entangled. It follows Black Storms as the second instalment in Solana’s series featuring Deputy Inspector…
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The Vanishing Room by Andrew Lowe

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With British detective fiction so congested, crafting a compelling new detective, sidekick and ensemble seems a daunting prospect. Andrew Lowe managed this in fine style with the first entry in the Lennox and Blackwood series, The Whispering Bones, which introduced us to DCI Oswald Lennox…
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