I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
I Let You Go might be Clare Mackintosh‘s crime debut, but as a journalist she is an established writer. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Sainsbury’s Magazine, Good Housekeeping and WI Life. If you’re into suburban or kitchen sink noir, this sounds like a very…
The Lie by CL Taylor
There are so many crime fiction book series these days that it’s refreshing to come across an author who likes writing one-off psychological thrillers. The Lie is CL Taylor’s second novel, and is a book that will grab you from the very first sentence, never…
The Case of the Dotty Dowager by Cathy Ace
Cathy Ace has made a name for herself with her cosy mysteries set in foodie-heaven locations like the South of France, Canadian vineyards, Las Vegas and Mexico. The books in her The Corpse… series have all starred intrepid academic Cait Morgan and we’ve reviewed a few…
The Bones Beneath
Written by Mark Billingham — In Tom Thorne’s last outing, The Dying Hours, having been busted down to uniform for one too many indiscretions, our hero ends up hospitalised with a bullet wound. His boss says, “I’ve got good news and bad news….” Not far…
Rubbernecker
Patrick Fort is an anatomy student with Asperger’s Syndrome who stumbles across a crime among the cadavers in his class in Cardiff. He has a death fixation and at first you wonder if he’s got criminal tendencies. We have cadavers and severed heads, a teenage…
First look: The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths
Have a look at this early proof of Harry Bingham’s next Fiona Griffiths novel, from Orion. And what could be more startling – aside from that magenta lettering – than the title itself: The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths? Has Bingham killed off his main…
NTN: Ann Cleeves writing competition
Pan Macmillan has announced that the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series by Ann Cleeves – first released between 1986 and 1996 – is to be published in ebook format under its Bello imprint. But what’s even more exciting for would-be crime authors is that the…