Uncoiled Lies
Written by Liz Mistry — Bradford, 5 November 1998 and Sadia Hussain is at a bonfire night celebration with her best friend, Jessica, which goes horribly wrong. Jessica’s mother, Millie Green, burns to death, witnessed by Jessica’s half brother, Shahid and Sadia’s policeman father. Fast…
The Intrusions
Written by Stav Sherez — Madison Carter is in hysterics in the Bayswater police station as she reports the abduction of her friend Anna Becker. Initially, DS Geneva Miller isn’t sure whether to believe her. Madison is rambling and clearly on narcotics, but something Madison says piques Miller’s interest…
Rattle
Written by Fiona Cummins — When a debut author is an award-winning former showbiz journalist on a national newspaper, you might expect them to write about what they know – vacuous celebrities, star-studded premieres – that kind of thing. But there’s precious little glitz and…
Candles and Roses by Alex Walters
Are you ready for a trip to the Highlands? Because bodies have started appearing on the Black Isle and it sounds like a creepy place. The peninsula between the Moray, Beauly and Cromarty Firths, actually isn’t an island at all, but what’s going down there is plenty…
Blonde Ice
Written by RG Belsky — This is the fourth crime mystery in the series featuring New York Daily News reporter Gil Malloy, dogged practitioner of a fading profession. Following on from The Kennedy Connection, it’s written in the first person and holds you close to the genial…
The Legacy of the Bones by Dolores Redondo
Translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia — Just how many secrets is it possible to have in one family? Well, if it’s Spanish author Dolores Redondo’s Baztan Trilogy, it appears the answer is very many indeed. After the disturbing revelations about her mother in The…
CIS: Georges Simenon's Dirty Snow revisited
If you’ve read Georges Simenon’s classic of existential noir Dirty Snow you will probably believe there was mutual influence between Simenon and his contemporary Albert Camus. Dirty Snow certainly belongs on the same shelf as Camus’ The Stranger. The influence of Dirty Snow’s existential musings is still prevalent…