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…
Interview: new Victorian crime author Kate Williams
You might recognise author Kate Williams. She took part in the TV coverage of the Royal Wedding in 2011, working for the BBC. She’s also appeared with Caroline Quentin on Restoration Home, and worked on the BBC Timewatch documentary the Young Victoria. Her non-fiction books…
Ashes to Dust
Written by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir — In the early hours of 23 January 1973, the Eldfell volcano erupted on the island of Heimæy; the only inhabited island in the Vestmannæyjar volcanic archipelago, an area now known as The Pompeii of the North. The severity of the…
That Awful Mess at the Via Merulana
Written by Carlo Emilio Gadda — I’m going to get the bad part out of the way first – this book is unfinished. It’s also 65 years old and Italo Calvino considered it to be a landmark work of modern Italian literature. Still with me?…