Cloudthief by Nathaniel Rich
Here’s a book for people looking for a new take on the political thriller, beyond the familiar tropes of corrupt officials, property developers, police coverups and soulless oligarchs. Nathaniel Rich’s new heist thriller Cloudthief points its literary finger directly at the massive data centres working…
Meet the author: Jill Amy Rosenblatt
If you haven’t come across the Fixer novels by Jill Amy Rosenblatt yet, then you could be in for a treat. So far, the Long Island-based author has produced four in the series and more are on the way. These are books crafted just for…
The Meaning of the Murder by Walter B Levis
Billed as a literary approach to the topic of murder, Walter B Levis’s The Meaning of the Murder has a lot of plusses and, for me, a few minuses. He avoids all the cheap-shot cop story tropes, the too-easy slotting of characters into good cop/bad…
Two Kinds of Stranger by Steve Cavanagh
No good deed goes unpunished, according to the oft-quoted saying. So where does that leave us in these random-act-of-kindness days? In deep doo-doo, if Steve Cavanagh’s latest Eddie Flynn novel is to be believed. Two Kinds of Stranger opens with TikToker Elly Parker heading through…
Interview: James Comey
After being removed from his position as FBI director by Donald Trump in 2017, James Comey became a writer and there was a huge amount of interest in his book. People hoped he would shed light on what it was like in the corridors of…
Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle
Brooklyn native William Boyle sets his latest novel in Gravesend, a changing part of the New York borough. It has the hallmarks of a classic, reminiscent of great American novels like Dennis Lehane’s Mystic River, and cements Boyle’s reputation as a master of noir. 28-year-old…
The Oligarch's Daughter by Joseph Finder
There’s lots of advance praise for thriller author Joseph Finder’s new novel, The Oligarch’s Daughter, and it moves swiftly from its settings in Manhattan, small-town New Hampshire, the White Mountains, rural Pennsylvania and elsewhere. There’s even a short interlude in Moscow. Essentially, it’s a story…