Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite! by Douglas Lindsay
Relax Beatles fans. This isn’t a novel inspired by their epoch-making Sgt Pepper album, which had a track entitled Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite. However a Mr Kite does come into it and there are Beatles references inside… James Kite is a failed…
Interview: Emma Healey
Emma Healey has restored old books and designed and made new books. She’s seen books being printed, sold them in bookshops and issued them in libraries, and even met her partner, Andy, in a Waterstones! Now, after five years of writing, Emma has produced a…
The Human Flies by Hans Olav Lahlum
When you pick up this Norwegian crime novel, don’t expect something out of the Nordic noir tradition. Instead prepare yourself for a classic whodunit of the highest calibre, a deviously challenging murder mystery set in an apartment complex in 1960s Oslo. Kolbjørn Kristiansen, a rookie…
Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris is known as the writer of the Southern Vampire Mysteries which is the basis of the popular TV series True Blood. And the promotional material that came through with Midnight Crossroad does suggest that there is a supernatural element to the mystery. So,…
Never Look Back
DI Mike Lockyer has an autistic brother. He also has a failed marriage. The wedding ring on a chain round his neck is a constant reminder of the latter, while his visits to his brother’s care home remind him that life can be extremely unfair…
Talus and the Frozen King by Graham Edwards
Now here’s a book that provides us with a neat spin on historical crime fiction – by setting his novel in pre-history. The Neolithic era to be precise – when the first human communities formed, early farming began and people started making the first pottery….