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Poppy Plays Fair by Leigh Russell

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Roll up! Roll up! The annual summer fair has arrived in Ashton Mead, bringing with it the customary mayhem, mistrust… and murder? While many villagers complain about the crowds of townies the fair draws in, to say nothing of the litter, vandalism and petty crime,…
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Gunner by Alan Parks

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Gunner is the opener for a new detective series set during World War II. As such, it delves a little deeper into the past than the author’s award-winning Harry McCoy series, which so vividly recreates 1970s Glasgow. It’s 1941 and former detective Joe Gunner is…
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Nightswimming by Melanie Anagnos

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Patterson, New Jersey, is the setting for this debut police procedural by Melanie Anagnos, a native of the town. It’s a bittersweet love letter to her native city, the former mill town that is one of the largest in the dense cluster of New York…
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Strange Houses by Uketsu

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Translated by Jim Rion — In January, we reviewed Strange Pictures by surrealist Japanese YouTuber and dapper mask-wearer Uketsu. That was the author’s second novel, and now his debut, Strange Houses, has also been translated into English. Focusing on the disturbing hidden meanings that can…
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Shatter Creek by Rod Reynolds

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You’d be tempted to believe British author Rod Reynolds was American, with five of his six novels set in the US, but he’s actually a Brit with a good feel for Americana. In Shatter Creek, Hampstead County Detective Sergeant Casey Wray returns after Black Reed…
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