An Act of Kindness by Barbara Nadel
Set in East London, An Act of Kindness sees PI Lee Arnold and his assistant Mumtaz Hakim struggling for work. It’s 2012 and Olympics fever is in the air. Lee has been hired by an old school gangster to investigate his young wife, whom he…
Trespasser by Paul Doiron
When winter slowly turns into spring in Maine, they call it Mud Season. It is both a curse and a blessing. Clothes, cars, sidewalks and driveways are covered in the stuff, but at least summer cannot be too far away. Amid the mud Game Warden…
Witness the Dead by Craig Robertson
Craig Robertson‘s first novel, Random, was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger and hit the Sunday Times bestseller list in 2010. Using Glasgow as a backdrop, he’s gradually built a strong cast of characters led by the no nonsense DS Rachel Narey. However in…
Season of Darkness by Maureen Jennings
The author of Season of Darkness is a British ex-pat living in Canada, who is well known for writing the seven books in the Murdoch Mysteries series. These have benefited from a popular TV adaptation. Tom Tyler is her new creation, making his first appearance…
I Can See in the Dark by Karin Fossum
Translated by James Anderson — The last month has been great for fans of Norway’s Karin Fossum fans. The very first Inspector Sejer novel – In the Darkness (or Eve’s Eye in the US) – has just appeared in English. Alongside a review of that…
Red Winter by Dan Smith
Dan Smith’s previous novel The Child Thief, an intense thriller set among the Bolshevik-infested forests of 1930’s Ukraine, was one of my novels of 2012, so I had high expectations for Red Winter. And I’m glad to say that it more than lived up to…
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
The mystery surrounding Robert Galbraith was solved this month when it was revealed that this debut novelist was in fact JK Rowling writing under a pseudonym. The Cuckoo’s Calling is the Harry Potter author’s first foray into crime fiction. So is it any good? After…