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The Poison Artist by Jonathan Moore

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Poison was once a popular feature in crime fiction of the Golden Age, particularly in the works of Agatha Christie. Jonathan Moore has revived that tradition with ingenuity in his debut novel. The Poison Artist arrives with a blurb from Stephen King, who ranks it…
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Siren by Annemarie Neary

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Roisin Burns left her old life behind her 20 years ago when she left Belfast to live in New York. She changed everything about herself but as hard as she tried Roisin, could never quite eliminate her guilt about the past, a fact which has…
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The Passenger by Lisa Lutz

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Lisa Lutz is the author of The Spellman Chronicles, a series with six entries so far about the comic adventures of a dysfunctional family of private investigators. The Passenger, billed as a dark psychological thriller in the vein of Gone Girl, therefore represents something of…
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The Quiet Ones by Betsy Really

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As Mark Billingham pointed out in an insightful essay a few years ago, the key to genuine suspense is to be found in character rather than relying on twists and cliffhangers. That ability to make readers empathise with a protagonist is part of the craft…
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Symbiosis by Guy Portman

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Talulah and Taliah are twins. Their father is a decent fellow, but not the most imaginative of souls, while their mother is a woman from the Caribbean who wears her heart on her sleeve at all times. The twins are inseparable and, much to the…
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Nausea by Ed Kurtz

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Although Ed Kurtz had been published previously, 2014 was something of a breakout year for him. His output included two well-received novels, The Forty-Two and Angel of the Abyss, as well as the excellent novella Freight. Last year was a bit quieter, but now we have…
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