Interview: Forensic mystery author Daniel Laz
Whodunnit. It’s a word we use to describe mystery novels. It’s also a question. However, the Hungarian author Daniel Laz approaches things slightly differently. In his Frankie Voss Investigations series the question isn’t ‘who did it?’ but ‘what does the evidence actually tell us?’ Then,…
The Dead Ringer by Dane Bahr
In 2024, Stag put Dane Bahr firmly on the radar of crime fiction lovers – a retro serial killer thriller that mixed violence and dread with a poignant relationship between the two older protagonists assigned to investigate the murders. It was Bahr’s second novel and…
The Case of the Hydegild Sacrifice by David Cairns
The Case of the Hydegild Sacrifice takes a pivotal event from US history – the assassination of Abraham Lincoln – and reimagines it as fertile ground for mystery, doubt and moral uncertainty. In so doing, David Cairns delivers a novel that is as much about…
Appointment in Paris by Jane Thynne
Jane Thynne is best known for her series of novels following Clara Vine, an Anglo-German actress working for British intelligence during World War II. She started a new series in 2024 with Midnight in Vienna, which followed cast-out spy Harry Fox and Stella Fry, fresh…
The End of the Sahara
Translated by Alexander E Elinson — In The End of the Sahara, a murder mystery by Saïd Khatabi, the story of who killed Algerian nightclub singer Zakia Zaghouani is slowly turned and examined from all sides like a colourfully refracting glass ball. This is the…
Len Deighton (1929-2026) remembered
Len Deighton was a writer who, alongside the likes of John le Carré, helped redefine the British spy novel in the 1960s and beyond. The Ipcress File and its nameless protagonist the basis for an era defining film with Michael Caine. le Carré died in…
Interview: Alex Gerlis
Over the last 15 years, Alex Gerlis has become something of a specialist when it comes to espionage novels set during World War II, and his writing is going from strength to strength. In 2024, he began an exciting new series with Every Spy a…