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Criminal Classics – Liz Avey
Liz Avey is a Scandi-crime specialist and reviewer at Crime Fiction Lover. You can also find her over at her excellent blog Spriteby’s Bokhylle. Here’s Liz on Martin Cruz Smith’s Gorky Park…...
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Criminal Classics – Zoe Sharp
Zoe Sharp is the woman Lee Child wishes he was – Google it, it’s true – she’s the author of the kick-ass Charlie Fox series, which is now on its ninth installment; Fifth Victim, and features in Childs’...
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Criminal Classics – Craig Robertson
Craig Robertson’s latest book Cold Grave is out in June but until then you can catch up with his debut Random, a tricky and sharply written serial killer novel, and the follow-up Snapshot. You can...
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Criminal Classics – Russel D. McLean
Russel D. McLean is an author, blogger and international jetsetter. His latest novel Father Confessor is out in September, but until then you can catch up with the travails of Dundee PI J McNee with...
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Criminal Classics – Gerard Brennan
Gerard Brennan is a Belfast-based author and ex-rockgod. His novella The Point garnered rave reviews, and his debut novel Wee Rockets has been justifiably compared to The Wire and City of God....
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True Brit Grit – the Luca Veste Interview
As if he hasn’t already earned enough good karma for the baddest Scouse bastard going with Off The Record, this month sees Luca Veste release another charity anthology for child literacy, in...
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Interview – HJ Hampson
HJ Hampson’s debut The Vanity Game is one part satire, one part crime novel, plunging into the murky hinterland of football fixers who will go to extraordinary lengths to protect a cash-cow...
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Brighton Belle by Sara Sheridan
Brighton Belle is the first crime novel from critically acclaimed author Sara Sheridan. Her back catalogue is a combination of sharply written contemporary fiction and historical novels, impeccably...
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Settled Blood by Mari Hannah
Mari Hannah’s debut The Murder Wall was, for my money, one of the strongest debuts of 2012 and signalled the arrival of a major new talent on the crime scene. Settled Blood sees DCI Kate Daniels back...
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The Next Big Thing
So it’s my turn in this Next Big Thing chain letter – not sure of the details but apparently if you refuse every book on your shelf is spontaneously transformed into Pippa Middleton’s Celebrate (if you...
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Spring 2013 – Essential Pre-orders
So the top crime books of 2012 is done and dusted, time to start thinking about what’s coming up next… Gone Again – Doug Johnstone ‘It’s just to say that no-one has come to pick Nathan up from school,...
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Interview – Chris Ewan
With his first standalone thriller, Safe House, riding high in the charts Chris Ewan might have been expected to take things easy, but December saw the release of The Good Thief’s Guide to Berlin, a...
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Runaway Town by Jay Stringer
Old Gold, Jay Stringer’s 2012 debut, was one of the strongest first novels I’ve read in years. Introducing half-Romani cop, turned underworld detective, Eoin Miller it combined a hardboiled...
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Gone Again by Doug Johnstone
After the drink fuelled violence of Smokeheads and Hit and Run’s sexy, pill-popping rough and tumble Doug Johnstone was my go-to author for manchild hijinks, but his latest novel Gone Again signals...
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Jay Stringer
Jay Stringer is among the noir new guard’s most exciting voices, an author whose hard and fast crime writing comes with real political and social depth. His second novel, Runaway Town, featuring...
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Eleven Days by Stav Sherez
A Dark Redemption, the first book in the Carrigan and Miller series was the book of 2012 for me, a politically astute and truly unsettling work, written in some of the most beautiful prose you could...
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City of Blood by MD Villiers
City of Blood by MD Villiers South African crime fiction has enjoyed a long-overdue boost of late, with Roger Smith and Lauren Beukes’ eye catching, but very different novels, throwing the spotlight...
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Plan D by Simon Urban
There is something irresistible about ‘what if’ historical thrillers, and World War Two has provided fertile ground for the likes of Robert Harris and, more recently CJ Sansom with the excellent...
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Guest post – Andrez Bergen
It’s my pleasure to welcome Andrez Bergen back to the blog. September sees the release of Andrez’s next novel, Who Is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa, a typically inventive and playful take on the...
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Guest post – JH Everington
Nottingham based author JH Everington is responsible for some of the most unsettling short stories I have ever read, the kind of poised and elegant tales which turn the everyday world inside out,...
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