The Poison Garden
Written by Alex Marwood — Earlier this year I read MW Craven’s Black Summer and marvelled at the brilliance of its first chapter. Alex Marwood must have been at the same training session, because The Poison Garden also opens in spectacular fashion. PC Nita Bevan…
The Darkest Secret by Alex Harwood
Alex Marwood’s latest domestic noir novel is one of those ones where you’ll definitely feel like screaming, “He’s behind you!” like an overexcited child at a pantomime. There were also times when I wanted to grab a character by the arm and ask, “Can’t you…
The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood
Big cities are anonymous places and it’s all too easy to pass unobserved, even among neighbours. This is the theme explored by Alex Marwood in her eagerly anticipated second novel, a standalone thriller which promises to be every bit as gripping as her much-praised debut…
NTN: Alex Marwood interviewed
Fresh from the success of her debut crime novel The Wicked Girls – which dealt with what things might be like for two women convicted of a murder back when they were 11 years old – Alex Marwood has come up with another fascinating premise…
NTN: The 10 best crime debuts of 2013
A debut novel is a bit like a first album for a band, or a first film for a director. No matter how much belief the author, musician or filmmaker has in their talent, the battle is getting the work done, convincing everybody of how…