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The Flatey Enigma
Written by Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson – Fortunately for us, two of the 10 Icelandic books selected for English translation by the new AmazonCrossing publishing initiative happen to be crime novels. One of them, The Flatey Enigma by Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson, was a welcome blip on the CFL radar. The year is 1960. Kjartan, a rather[...]
Fallen Angel
Written by Jonelle Patrick – In recent years, the seedier underbelly of Japanese nightlife and hostess clubs has been exposed by Mo Hayder in her novel Tokyo (aka The Devil of Nanking) and Susanna Quinn’s Glass Geishas. The popularity and also potential dangers of this system, particularly for foreign girls, were starkly highlighted following the gruesome[...]
Voodoo Eyes
Written by Nick Stone – PI Max Mingus has settled into his routine of investigating cheating spouses when what would usually be a fairly standard case turns decidedly not-so-standard. However, that case takes a swift back seat when Max gets a call from his old partner, Joe Linton, who’s at a murder scene of a[...]
The Weeping Girl
Written by Håkan Nesser – If you’re a lover of Scandinavian crime fiction, take warning. Most or the jacket quotes on the latest Håkan Nesser novel refer to the author’s Nordic Noir and Scandinavian crime fiction credentials. “Nesser is one of the best of the Nordic Noir writers…” says the Guardian. However, although the author[...]
Eleven Days
Written by Stav Sherez – We first met Jack Carrigan and Geneva Miller last year, in Stav Sherez’s critically acclaimed and hugely successful A Dark Redemption. That book was set against a backdrop of Ugandan political unrest, while focusing on a grisly death on the mean streets of London – a heady mix which made[...]
Cold Killing
Written by Luke Delaney – Say hello to DI Sean Corrigan, latest recruit to the psychological police procedural fold – you’ll be hearing more from him in the future. Corrigan is the creation of debut author Luke Delaney, an ex-London Metropolitan Police detective who certainly has the inside track on how an investigation works. Not[...]
Chilled to the Bone
Written by Quentin Bates – It appears the weather is conspiring to keep us reading Nordic crime fiction – or at least crime fiction set in colder climates. Or is it just me who needs rain, snow and grey clouds to curl up with Scandinavian writers? Quentin Bates, however, is an English writer, albeit one with[...]
Mayhem
Written by Sarah Pinborough – As a setting Victorian London seems to be a mainstay in crime fiction. It will always of course be associated with that most famous of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, but there is also Sexton Blake, Dickens’ Bleak House, and The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. More recently, a new generation of authors[...]
Deadly Deceit
Written by Mari Hannah – It’s a strange law of nature in publishing, but the third novel is very often the breakout novel for a new crime fiction author. Deadly Deceit is no exception. Good though the previous two books in the Kate Daniels series were, Mari Hannah really hits her stride with this one. This[...]
The Carrier
Written by Sophie Hannah – When I read Sophie Hannah’s first novel, Little Face, I was shocked and amazed. It was as though the author had rummaged around in the deepest, darkest recesses of my mind, and unearthed all the items I try to keep well-hidden, even from myself. Ever since, I have been addicted to 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[...]
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