The Hotel Manager's Guide to Murder by Erlander Arason
Translated by Quentin Bates — The Hotel Manager’s Guide to Murder is the first in a trilogy featuring detectives Hauker and Dagný. You may be familiar with the stories of the big London hotels that discreetly take care of everything for their guests, even the…
Meet the Author: Kate Kaminski
Based in Maine, Kate Kaminski is an indie filmmaker and also an indie author of crime fiction. With her novel I Am Danvers released in May 2026, she reimagines Mrs Danvers – the creepy housekeeper who was the antagonist in Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca. The…
Interview: Erlendur Arason
The tourism boom in Iceland has resulted in all sorts of shiny new hotels popping up in Reykjavik. It seems an unlikely source of inspiration at first, but just think of all the criminal capers that could go on in a hotel. The camera-shy Iceland-based…
Collateral Death by J Kushley
Crime fiction is a genre built on familiar tropes: the suspicious death, the damaged investigator, the institution that prefers easy answers over difficult truths. What makes a mystery novel memorable is not whether it uses these conventions but what it does with them. In Collateral…
The Devil is Waiting by Gregory W Beaubien
If you’re a devotee of noir fiction, you’ll definitely find it in Gregory W Beaubien’s new crime thriller, The Devil is Waiting. Set in Chicago mainly in the 1970s and 1990s, his story eventually tracks five generations of men in one family who, in their…
Interview: Saima Mir
Saima Mir is a British crime author who offers readers something different and challenges perceptions. Get this – her trilogy featuring Jia Khan is antihero noir with a Muslim woman leading a crime syndicate. The idea of it immediately made me want to find out…
Interview: Percival Hoover and J Kushley
The great thing about crime fiction is that you never know what’s going to happen next, and this interview is an example of that. We’d set it up to talk to author J Kushley about his recent novel, Collateral Death, but to our surprise, its…