iBookKindlePrintReviews

Silent Bones by Val McDermid

By
Opening one of Val McDermid’s police procedurals – especially those featuring Police Scotland’s Karen Pirie and her dedicated team in the Historic Cases Unit – is like being driven to a rewarding destination in a luxury limo. Everything works flawlessly, with no plot holes or…
Read more
News

On the Radar: The stars are out

By
The stars of crime fiction are out this week here in our new books column. Michael Connelly, Sophie Hannah, Val McDermid and Vaseem Khan are all names dedicated crime fiction lovers are aware of. And in JK Flynn and Nick Kolakowski, two of our favourite…
Read more
KindlePrintReviews

Past Lying by Val McDermid

By
Publication of a new police procedural featuring Val McDermid’s intrepid Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is something to get excited about. The streets of Edinburgh have never been so ominous – or empty – as when this story takes place in April 2020, at the…
Read more
News

On the Radar: A dead author's story

By
Yes, it’s true, we are too close to our subject, but we do love it when mysteries themselves entwine authors, manuscripts, plot lines and other literary elements so that crime fiction begets crime fiction begets crime fiction… and so on. Anthony Horowitz is a master…
Read more
Features

Best crime author of 2022 shortlist

By
What’s your poison when it comes to crime fiction books? Do you flit about like a butterfly from author to author or do you enjoy nothing more than getting stuck into a juicy series? Whatever your approach, there are some writers whose latest releases just…
Read more
KindlePrintReviews

Marple: Twelve New Stories

By
While Agatha Christie eventually grew tired of Hercule Poirot, describing him as ‘an egocentric creep’ and devising a deeply divisive ending for him, she retained her affection for the far more personable Miss Jane Marple. From her first appearance in The Tuesday Night Club, a…
Read more
iBookKindlePrintReviews

1989 by Val McDermid

By
The 1980s are having something of a renaissance right now thanks to TV series like The Newsreader and Stranger Things. Just ask Kate Bush, whose 1986 hit Running Up That Hill took on a new life after featuring in the latter show on Netflix. Val…
Read more