Deep as Death by Katja Ivar
In this second book by Katja Ivar featuring investigator Hella Mauzer, it’s February 1953 in Helsinki, Finland, and someone believes that this cold, dark, snowy period is a propitious time to continue a nasty habit of murdering prostitutes. In the region there’s no shortage of…
Rolling Thunder by AJ Devlin
With a lurid magenta cover and a private detective who is larger-than-life, AJ Devlin’s Rolling Thunder is the right kind of contemporary pulp crime novel to read if you want to get your mind off COVID-19, Donald Trump, Brexit and all the other nonsense going…
The Blues Don't Care by Paul D Marks
Books are pretty amazing things, aren’t they? Open the cover and you can be transported to another place. Who needs an air ticket when you have a vivid imagination? Some books even take you time travelling too, and Paul D Marks’ The Blues Don’t Care…
Throwing Off Sparks by Michael Pool
The first book in a promising new collection, PI Tales, Throwing Off Sparks is also the first book in a new series featuring an East Texas-based female private investigator named Riley Reeves. It doesn’t exactly read like a first-in-a-series, though, and maybe at some future…
St Francis of Dogtown by Wm Stage
Francis X Lenihan is a process server in St Louis in the late 1980s. He is a free spirit who enjoys the independence and variety of his work, serving papers on people requiring them to attend civil court proceedings. While doing an out-of-town call…
Plender
Written by Ted Lewis — Northeast crime author Ted Lewis is credited with being one of the forefathers of British noir. His greatest commercial success was Jack Returns Home, adapted for film as Get Carter and starring Michael Caine. His last novel, GBH, is considered…