The Peak by Sam Guthrie
It’s been quite the decade for new spy fiction authors. David McCloskey has emerged as a real tour de force with four highly acclaimed novels, starting with Damascus Station while IS Berry, Charles Beaumont and Merle Nygate have also emerged as names to look out…
Under Vixens Mere by Kit Fielding
Kit Fielding’s Under Vixens Mere takes the closed-circle trope to a whole new setting: a collection of houseboats and their residents near the village of Broome in the English countryside. On the surface, Vixen’s Mere is a peaceful community of people whose lives have grown…
Doll Parts by Penny Zang
Penny Zang’s atmospheric and claustrophobic debut novel has it all: suspicious deaths, a fractured female friendship and a Sylvia Plath suicide club set in the angsty, grunge-driven 90s. So let’s dive in… Twenty years after a mysterious rift ended their friendship, Nikki commits suicide, and…
Kill Them with Kindness by Will Carver
Will Carver’s latest book, Kill Them with Kindness, is a speculative thriller that will take you to totally unexpected places. As you’ll know if you’ve read books like Nothing Important Happened Today or Psychopaths Anonymous, this is an author who creates wildly original plots that…
Splintered Justice by Kim Hays
Kim Hays returns with Splintered Justice, the fourth book in her Polizei Bern series and we get to return to the seemingly serene yet sometimes shadowy Swiss city. In this latest instalment, detectives Giuliana Linder and Renzo Donatelli take on two cases that force them…
Fall by Tracy Clark
Political corruption, like death and taxes, is always with us, a fact that Chicagoans know better than most. Chicago has long been considered America’s most corrupt city, with one investigation suggesting more than $500 million leaves the system each year to pockets unknown. An incredible…
This Charming Man by CK McDonnell
Vampires are a myth, everyone knows that… Or do they? Look at what happened in Manchester last year as chronicled in The Stranger Times. The city was the epicentre of dark and disturbing events which proved the existence of monsters, in various guises including the…