A Ghostly Shade of Pale by Merle Temple
We are in the Deep South, strutting that well-worn stage set where almost anything can happen – the land where Mississippi meets Tennessee meets Arkansas. Bugs the size of golf balls clatter into the kerosene lanterns and, out there on the river, vines hang from…
This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
After a stunning critical reception for A Land More Kind Than Home last year, North Carolina author Wiley Cash faces the sternest challenge – the second novel. And he delivers… Bobby Pruitt has scores to settle. He once had high hopes of a professional baseball…
Interview: Adrian McKinty
Oxford, Denver, New York, Melbourne and even Israel – Adrian McKinty has lived all over the place. However, it’s the streets of Belfast, where he grew up, that form the rainy and menacing setting in his latest series of crime novels. The books centre around…
Interview: Wiley Cash
Wiley Cash is a native of North Carolina who now lives in West Virginia. His debut novel was A Land More Kind Than Home, where he dealt with religious obsession, childhood, disability, and a certain kind of rural deprivation. The book was enthusiastically received by…
A Commonplace Killing
Written by Siân Busby — Siân Busby tragically passed away in 2012, but she gave us two non-fiction works (A Wonderful Little Girl and The Cruel Mother), a children’s book, and two works of fiction entitled McNaughten and A Commonplace Killing. The latter she finished…
Seven of the best: paranormal mysteries for Halloween
The witching hour is nearly upon us. If you don’t feel like even twitching, let alone witching, why not sit in and read a crime fiction novel with a Halloween theme? We’ve got some terrifically terrifying treats just for as we select seven of the…
Classics in September 2013 - a recap
Our second annual month celebrating the classics of crime fiction has come to an end. We hope you’ve enjoyed it. It started off with one of the Queens of the Golden age, Dorothy L Sayers, and ended with a slightly lesser known Golden Age author…