The Constant Lovers
Written by Chris Nickson — Alongside the current popularity of period drama, there seems to be a growing interest in historical crime fiction. Certainly plenty of books imagining various crime stories of the past are being published. The Constant Lovers is the latest in the…
The Piccadilly Plot
Written by Susanna Gregory — It’s the autumn of 1664, Charles II has been on the throne for four years and London is busy enjoying the Restoration, but behind the façade of sumptuous buildings and jollity, the rats are gathering and plots are being hatched,…
Interview: new crime author Claire McGowan
Claire McGowan is probably a new name to many crime fiction lovers with her first novel, The Fall, due out on 2 February. However, she is already well known to writers in the genre because she’s the director of the Crime Writers’ Association. The Fall…
FREE ebook: The Pineville Heist
Yesterday we brought you our review of The Pineville Heist, an action-packed crime book for young adults about a teenage boy called Aaron Stevens who gets mixed up in a bank robbery. The author Lee Chambers has dropped us a line to let us know…
The Dead Women of Juárez by Sam Hawken
It’s a tough sell setting a crime fiction book against a backdrop of real life horrors without coming across as sensationalist or trivial. But this is precisely what Sam Hawken attempts to do in his first book, The Dead Women of Juárez, and pulls it…