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…
The Frozen Dead
Written by Bernard Minier — There is something disquieting about the icy wilderness of the Pyrenees. Diane Berg, a young forensic psychologist, is accustomed to mountains: after all, she is Swiss and has trained with the prestigious Professor Spitzner at the University of Geneva. But the…
Bad Tidings by Nick Oldham
It is a cold Lancashire New Year’s Day. Dark and early. Detective Superintendent Henry Christie of Lancashire CID is deeply asleep in his lady-friend’s bed. She is a pub landlady, and is exhausted after several days of seasonal festivities. But as it always does, the…
Generation Loss
Set on a wintry island off the coast of Maine, this book introduces us to a physically and mentally scarred bisexual photographer, Cassandra Neary, who travels to the island to write a piece for a pop culture magazine. She encounters missing teenagers, pets killed by…
Redemption by Jussi Adler-Olsen
The miserable and sardonic Copenhagen police detective Carl Mørck is back, and this time he plays the main role in a story that has something for just about every stripe of crime fiction lover. Mørck is the head of Department Q, headquartered in the basement…
21:37 by Mariusz Czubaj
Translated by Anna Hyde — What could be the meaning of the mysterious numbers marked in blood on the bodies of two young men found together by the Olympic Centre in Warsaw in April 2007? Well, if you are Polish, the numbers 21 and 37 mean much…
The Killing Game by JA Kerley
In the most random places in an Alabama city, people are dying. A rosy-cheeked college student is knocked off her bike and shot with a crossbow. A disabled black boy, with Immune Defficiency Syndrome, is stabbed through the side with a hunting knife. A genial…