James Grady’s debut novel Six Days of the Condor, was a smash hit in 1974, the basis for the classic Robert Redford film Three Days of the Condor. Since then, he has written a string of successful novels, covering espionage, noir and more. At 77,…
Universities are supposed to be places of quiet scholarship, polite disagreement and excessive footnotes… not suspicious deaths. Yet in RO Thorp’s Marked for Death, the cloistered world of academia proves just as dangerous as any dark alley, picturesque English village or research trip to the…
First published in 1960 and now included in the British Library Crime Classics series, Jack on the Gallows Tree is part of the long-running Carolus Deene series. Written by Leo Bruce, the pen name of Rupert Croft-Cooke, the series blends the puzzle mystery traditions of…
Translated by Vanessa Liu — Rio is a Taiwanese writer and artist and this is the first in her very successful manga series, which has already won awards across Europe and Asia. Curiously, Rio says there is no support group culture in Taiwan, so the…
It’s always big news when a new Michael Connelly novel is announced. This week the creator of detective Harry Bosch is back with the second in his new series, which focuses on Detective Sergeant Stilwell, another California cop with villains to collar. We’re on the…
Lawyer Michael Cowan’s new crime novel, John B Peoples, is a fascinating trip through the ambiguous places where the ragged edges of law, ethics and justice meet up. For a book of fewer than 250 pages, it packs in a lot! John Peoples is a…
