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December 1, 2020

The Lost and the Damned by Olivier Norek

Translated by Nick Caistor Reviewed by Gill Davies This is the first novel by Olivier Norek to be translated into English. It was first…

December 1, 2020

Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the world by Mark Aldridge

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long When I was younger and read every Agatha Christie book I could lay my hands on, she always produced a…

August 25, 2020

My Summer Reading: Broken Harbour by Tana French

Reviewed by Harriet I was very late in the day in discovering the novels of Tana French. I’d tried her first novel, In the Woods,…

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August 6, 2020

Grave’s End by William Shaw

Review by Annabel William Shaw, former award-winning music journalist has, in recent years, become one of the UK’s must-read crime authors. Although he’d already…

January 30, 2020

Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide, by Barry Forshaw

Review by Basil Ransome-Davies When I started teaching popular fiction courses forty years ago, having always been more drawn to Jesse James than to…

January 21, 2020

Happy Ever After by C. C. MacDonald

Review by Basil Ransome-Davies Adultery. It crops up everywhere. Few grown-up pastimes are as popular as disobeying the sixth Commandment. Where would novels, plays…

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October 10, 2019

Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke

Review by Gill Davies This powerful and engrossing novel continues a series of crime novels in which Attica Locke uses plot and suspense to…

Sanctuary Luca d'andrea maclehose
September 5, 2019

Sanctuary by Luca D’Andrea

Translated by Howard Curtis and Katherine Gregor Review by Basil Ransome-Davies Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ‘em/And little fleas…

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July 25, 2019

Big Sky by Kate Atkinson

Reviewed by Harriet He wished that he could just once hear his sister play a solo again. Or help his sister pin up the…

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June 4, 2019

Cold For the Bastards of Pizzofalcone by Maurizio de Giovanni

Translated by Antony Shugaar Reviewed by Gill Davies This is the third book in a series of police procedural novels by the successful Italian…

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March 5, 2019

Winterman by Alex Walters

Review by Rob Spence East Anglia has quite a lot of previous when it comes to crime fiction: Colin Watson’s chronicles of Flaxborough, James…

Slow Motion Ghosts by Jeff Noon
February 12, 2019

Slow Motion Ghosts by Jeff Noon

Reviewed by Annabel I first discovered Jeff Noon’s weird take on our world when his debut novel Vurt was picked up by a major publisher after…

The Lost Man by Jane Harper
February 7, 2019

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

Reviewed by Annabel I’ll say it up front, Jane Harper’s third novel, The Lost Man, was totally unputdownable! Not having read her first two,…

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January 15, 2019

The Infinite Blacktop by Sara Gran

Review by Basil Ransome-Davies At times crime fiction seems a genre so powerful that it sucks in and revitalises other forms. At others, literary…

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October 18, 2018

The Second Rider by Alex Beer

Translated by Tim Mohr Review by Gill Davies The Second Rider is the first novel in a projected new series by the Austrian writer,…

September 27, 2018

By the Pricking of Her Thumb by Adam Roberts

Reviewed by David Harris Roberts seems to have been very busy lately so I’m glad he managed to include a return to the world of The Real-Town…

February 6, 2018

Force of Nature by Jane Harper

Reviewed by Gill Davies Following on from her highly-acclaimed first novel, The Dry, Jane Harper has written a second gripping story featuring the harsh…

Zen and the Art of Murder by Oliver Bottini
January 16, 2018

Zen and the Art of Murder by Oliver Bottini

Translated by Jamie Bulloch Reviewed by Terence Jagger We are not in Japan, but Germany; set in the snowy Black Forest, not far from…

Nine Lessons by Nicola Upson
November 7, 2017

Nine Lessons by Nicola Upson

Reviewed by Harriet Nine Lessons is the seventh of Nicola Upson’s crime novels featuring the mystery writer Josephine Tey (1896-1952). I normally have a…

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October 12, 2017

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

Reviewed by Gill Davies This is Attica Locke’s fourth novel and a stunning follow-up. Black Water Rising was set in 1981; Pleasantville in 1996 and both used the…

May 4, 2017

Murder on the Pilgrims Way by Julie Wassmer

Reviewed by Victoria If you are like me and enjoy the format of traditional cosy crime – an atmospheric setting, a great cast of…

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano
March 23, 2017

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano

Translated by John Brownjohn Reviewed by Annabel I’m very glad to have met the irrepressible Auntie Poldi! Our narrator, her beloved nephew, tells us…

March 21, 2017

She Died Young by Elizabeth Wilson

Paperback review by Gill Davies She Died Young was published in hardback last year and is now available in paperback. It is the fourth novel…

February 16, 2017

Paradise City by Joe Thomas

Review by Annabel Joe Thomas lived and taught in São Paulo, the most populous city in the Americas and Southern Hemisphere, for ten years….

February 16, 2017

The Pledge, by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Translated by Joel Agee Reviewed by Eleanor Franzén In a mountainous Swiss canton not far from Zurich, a little girl’s body is found. She…

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