I Know What I Saw
Once wealthy banker Xander Shute is living rough on the streets in I Know What I Saw by Imran Mahmood. He takes refuge in a flat, where he witnesses the murder of a woman at the hands of her lover. When he reports the vicious…
I Know What I Saw by Imran Mahmood
Xander Shute was a high-flying, wealthy banker – white, Oxbridge educated and privileged. But when I Know What I Saw opens, he’s been living rough on the streets of London for decades. As Xander tells us his story we learn much about him in the first…
Kiss the Detective by Élmer Mendoza
Translated by Mark Fried — Sometimes called the godfather of narco-lit, Mexican author Élmer Mendoza sets his latest book in Sinaloa state and Kiss the Detective is the fourth in the Lefty Mendieta series. Mendoza has a distinctive writing style, but for those with the…
The Waiter by Ajay Chowdhury
Some crime books have you hiding behind the cushions, while others make you cringe and shut your eyes in disgust… In a first for this reviewer, The Waiter made me hungry! Seems appropriate, then, that for the book’s online launch party, a number of reviewers…
The Final Round by Bernard O’Keeffe
What is it with fictional detectives and music? Inspector Morse, of course, was a huge opera fan, DCI Banks loves a bit of jazz with classical thrown in and it’s been the same score since Sherlock Holmes picked up his violin. Now we have a country…
Beyond the Headlines by RG Belsky
RG Belsky’s Clare Carlson is a New York City television news director, and her skill at getting to the truth doesn’t take a back seat to anyone’s. There may be delays, detours, and false starts, but she gets there in the end, as we’ve already…
Not Dark Yet by Peter Robinson
DCI Alan Banks may have been off the telly for five years, but the books that spawned the police procedural series about the Yorkshire-based detective keep coming. Not Dark Yet is the 27th novel Peter Robinson has written for fans of this stubborn officer. Banks,…
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones audiobook
Narrated by Shaun Taylor-Corbett — Crime fiction devotees wedded to gritty reality may have trouble with the premise of this book or be put off by its link to the horror genre. Don’t be. It starts with a crime, the kind of irresponsible daredevilry four young…