Translated by Rachel Ward — Sharks is the eighth novel featuring our intrepid, acerbic and tough Hamburg state prosecutor Chastity Riley, and frankly, I can’t get enough of her. Sharks is just as dark and gritty as other books in the series, from Blue Night…
From the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Mars Attacks to Silent Hill, IDW Publishing has released comics across genres – even Dungeons & Dragons. Now, America’s fourth biggest comics publisher has announced a range of crime titles. Unlike many of the franchise-based series IDW has…
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…
When you’re about to interview a crime fiction author, you can never really tell what they did before writing mysteries. It’s always interesting to know, but Sarah Yarwood-Lovett has one of the most fascinating backstories we’ve come across. She’s an ecologist. Now, how do we…
Following closely on the heels of the French crime show The Eclipse, Channel 4 and Walter Presents have announced that the dark Dutch production Sphinx is coming with English subtitles. It too centres on the disappearance of a teenage girl but has a much creepier…
From And Then There Were None to Shutter Island, you know when you’re surrounded by ocean the only way out is to catch the killer… It’s a time-worn setup in crime fiction but it works a treat. So, let’s start our news report stuck on…
