The Coral Bride
Written by Roxanne Bouchard and translated beautifully by David Warriner, The Coral Bride is the lyrical, haunting follow-up to We Were the Salt of the Sea, set once more in the enticing Gaspe Peninsular of Quebec and featuring DS Joaquin Morales. This time he is…
The Innocent Dead by Lin Anderson
The Innocent Dead is 15th in Scottish author Lin Anderson’s long-running series of police procedurals featuring forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod and the Glaswegian team she works with. Echoes of several of those earlier books appear rather frequently in the pages of this new one, although…
The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves
Can it really be 21 years since the first Vera Stanhope novel was published? There have been a further eight releases since The Crow Trap, and The Darkest Evening has been eagerly awaited by fans of this series. Many of those readers may have been…
One Eye Open by Paul Finch
Paul Finch’s latest novel is a standalone thriller, but like his bestselling Heck series, One Eye Open is a police procedural. On the face of it, the traffic police might not seem the most promising division to write a thriller in, but Finch has once…
The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Saenz
Translated by Nick Caistor — In 1996 the Basque city of Vitoria was terrorised by a serial killer, according to The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Saenz. Eight people were killed, including two babies. The killer placed his victims in pairs in…