Interview: Peter May
Novelist, TV writer and producer Peter May is best known for his highly acclaimed Lewis Trilogy, which to date has sold more than a million copies in the UK alone. His latest novel is Entry Island, a standalone novel set in Canada – but the…
Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
Since the return of Rebus last year in Standing in Another Man’s Grave, a serial killer investigation that took him on a sinister Scottish road trip, the formerly retired Detective Inspector has been as mischievous as ever while trying to maintain his authority in a…
Interview: Ian Rankin
Rebus is back! Just a year since the publication of Standing in Another Man’s Grave, the ex-cop’s comeback that had him working in a cold case unit, now Rebus is an Edinburgh detective once again for the latest book, Saints of the Shadow Bible. He…
The Chessmen
Those strange little figures – squat and grumpy, kings and bishops, still evocative after 800 years. They provide a haunting backdrop to this, the final book in Peter May’s Lewis Trilogy. Please don’t feel that you are coming late to the party, because this book…
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,…
Witness the Dead by Craig Robertson
Craig Robertson‘s first novel, Random, was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger and hit the Sunday Times bestseller list in 2010. Using Glasgow as a backdrop, he’s gradually built a strong cast of characters led by the no nonsense DS Rachel Narey. However in…