The Girl Who Wouldn't Die by Marnie Riches
Georgina (George) McKenzie is a Cambridge University student on exchange in the lurid city of Amsterdam. When a bomb goes off outside the university where she is studying politics, no-one seems able to explain why it was targeted. George can’t help herself but get involved…
Death Sentence by Sheryl Browne
If, like in physics, there was a First Law of Crime Fiction, then it would state that all police detectives are cynical, misanthropic and have a tragic personal history. Sheryl Browne’s DI Matthew Adams – a young English copper working near London – ticks the…
Disintegration by Richard Thomas
Anyone familiar with Thomas’s neo-noir anthology The New Black will know the author is a fan of the dark stuff. So you won’t be surprised to learn that Disintegration, subtitled A Windy City Dark Mystery, is pitch black in tone. The un-named protagonist of Thomas’…
The Storm by Neil Broadfoot
Last year, Neil Broadfoot’s debut novel Falling Fast was shortlisted for the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year, in the hallowed company of such names as Peter May, Louise Welsh and Chris Brookmyre – and deservedly so, as you will gather from our review here….
Rumrunners by Eric Better
Eric Beetner might just be noir’s James Brown. The hardest working man in crime fiction not only curates the LA chapter of the Noir at the Bar reading series, but produces a prodigious amount of short fiction for the likes of Crime Factory, Thuglit, and…
Silent Scream
Set in England’s Black Country – so named because of its sooty industrial past – this is a serial killer novel with a difference. Five people stand round an open grave. Each one swears a vow of silence regarding the grave – and its occupant….