Ill Will
Written by Dan Chaon — Past and present crimes haunt the two main protagonists of this beautifully crafted new literary thriller. In the present day, psychologist Dustin Tillman lives in suburban Cleveland, Ohio. One son is away at college, and his younger son, Aaron, is…
Wild Chamber
Christopher Folwer’s Bryant and May series reaches its 12th novel, but seems as fresh as ever. The powers that be want to close down the Peculiar Crimes Unit but, clearly, that would be folly. Why? Because who else is going to solve all the bizarre…
Lola
Written by Melissa Scrivner Love — Lola, the energetic protagonist of this Los Angeles-based crime thriller, is an eminently likeable young woman, flirting with death at the hands of rival drug operatives and flouting the legal establishment. She lives with Garcia, the supposed leader of the Crenshaw…
Wild Chamber
Written by Christopher Fowler — Last year Christopher Fowler won the prestigious CWA Dagger in the Library award which recognises a significant body of work, as chosen by library users. And rightly so. Fowler is a prodigious writer, from his excellent debut Roofworld to Spanky, on to his two…
Vicious Circle by CJ Box
From Alaska‘s misfits to Norwegian serial killers, and all the way to the Russian steppes, there are many flavours of cold climate crime fiction to savour. CJ Box uses his home state of Wyoming as the backdrop for his own brand of wilderness noir. The…
A Darkness Absolute
Written by Kelley Armstrong — As A Darkness Absolute opens, Detective Casey Duncan and her colleague Deputy Will Anders are on snowmobiles roaming the Canadian wilderness looking for Shawn Sutherland. Duncan and Sanders work for Rockton, an off-the-grid, secret town of 200 people. Sutherland has run away, which is…