Hot in December by Joe R Lansdale
Hot in December is the latest thriller from one of genre fiction’s most prolific and respected writers. Over a career spanning more than 30 years, Lansdale has written over 40 novels as well as 28 short story collections, usually in horror or crime fiction. He…
NTN: Ghostman by Roger Hobbs
There’s a new kid in town, crime fans, and his name is Roger Hobbs. Right out of the gate, his debut novel – the smart, high-octane thriller Ghostman – has already nabbed him the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger from the Crime Writers’ Association. It’s unusual…
Tatiana by Martin Cruz Smith
It’s over 30 years and six books since Arkady Renko first appeared in Gorky Park. In his exquisite first mystery, he swam against the current of Soviet corruption attempting to solve three Moscow murders. Today, the crimson of communism has turned a rustier shade of…
Under a Silent Moon by Elizabeth Haynes
After seven years as a police intelligence analyst, Elizabeth Haynes is currently taking a career break. And that’s great news for fans of her books, because it means she can concentrate on writing more novels. Her first, Into the Darkest Corner, won Amazon’s Book of…
Where the Dead Men Go by Liam McIlvanney
Somehow I managed to miss All the Colours of the Town, Liam McIlvanney’s debut, but after reading a couple of pages of his latest I went straight to Amazon and bought a copy, because this man writes up a storm. Where the Dead Men Go,…
The Last Whisper in the Dark
Is your brother a deranged serial killer? No? Well you can’t have everything in life. Terry Rand has. His brother Collie ticked all the psychotic and homicidal boxes. But even though Collie has been disposed of via lethal injection, there remain too many family complexities…