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Interview: Harry Bingham
Last year, Harry Bingham introduced us to the wayward and totally original Detective Constable Fiona Griffiths in Talking To The Dead, which got a five-star review here on Crime Fiction Lover. Fiona was abandoned as a child, brought up by a benevolent Welsh crime boss and his wife, but suffered severe mental illness in her[...]
The Cold Nowhere
Written by Brian Freeman – In a rickety frame house, at the end of a track, hidden deep in the Minnesota woods, a six-year-old cowers under the porch. Above her, behind her, all around her, she can hear the screams of a woman being butchered. Her mother. A decade later the girl is turning tricks[...]
Steps to Heaven
Written by Wendy Cartmel – A soldier sharpens his knife on a whetstone. He says a silent prayer to his God. And then he commits an act of appalling savagery. But this is not Afghanistan, or Iraq. It is the garrison town of Aldershot. Sergeant Major Tom Crane, of the Military Police Special Investigation Branch[...]
The Tooth Tattoo
Written by Peter Lovesey – An award-winning crime fiction veteran, Peter Lovesey is back with a new novel in his Peter Diamond series, set in the Georgian city of Bath. In The Tooth Tattoo, we meet Mel Farran, a freelance viola player who is on his way home from a concert. He is mugged by an[...]
Swear Down
Written by Russ Litten – Swear Down is the difficult second novel for Hull-based author and scriptwriter Russ Litten. His first was Scream If You Want To Go Faster, which poignantly studied a series of different characters attending the last day of the Hull Fair, Europe’s biggest travelling carnival. Swear Down is a different sort of[...]
A Land More Kind Than Home
Written by Wiley Cash – In the sullen heat of backwoods North Carolina, an old general store has been converted into a church. But the windows are covered in newspaper, and what goes on during worship is hidden from view. The pastor is Carson Chambliss, a saturnine and secretive man who can whip up the[...]
The Ranger
Written by Ace Atkins – Army Ranger Quinn Colson is coming home. Home from Iraq. Home from Afghanistan. Home to Jericho, Mississippi, and his uncle’s funeral. Hampton Beckett was the County Sheriff until he put the barrel of a .44 in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Colson finds that six years is a long[...]
The Killing Room
Written by Richard Montanari – Winter grips Philadelphia. Ice floes clunk in the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, but Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano of the Homicide Unit have, for once, a clean plate. Three recent cases – three suspects in custody. All seems good, but when Balzano picks up the phone and receives a[...]
A classic revisited: Cop Hater
“The city in these pages is imaginary. The people, the places are all fictitious. Only the police routine is based on established investigatory technique.” It’s just 24 words, but no three sentences have ever held so much significance on the flyleaf of a book. Each of the 54 novels in the 87th Precinct series by[...]
Sistine
Written by Michael Hogan – If you love a comfortable murder-detection-solution book, then look away now. Oh, yes, there’s one other thing. Are you a devout Roman Catholic? Once again, you may wish to revisit something more warmly reassuring, like a Father Brown story, or one of the Cadfael books. Hogan has the Church of[...]
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