Crime Fiction Lover

The Yorkshire city of Leeds has its fair share of leafy suburbs – but there’s little sign of them in AA Dhand’s latest novel, The Chemist. Instead, pharmacist Idris Khan plies his trade in Headingley, an area heavily populated with students, not too far from the…

Here in our new books report this week there’s a fine seam of great reading. Crime fiction gold, you could say. And one of the books literally involves the Yukon gold rush of the late 19th century. We’ve got award-winning American crime author SA Cosby’s…

Translated by Jai van Essen — Readers of domestic noir will revel in Dutch writer Saskia Noort’s dark new thriller that unravels the psychological aftermath of a mother’s sudden disappearance. Set against the backdrop of Amsterdam, The Grown-Up combines the suspense of a missing persons…

Timothy Jay Smith is a writer and a wanderer, who has travelled all over the US and the rest of the world. His previous career put him in close contact with major global events, from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…

The Paisley-born author Andrew Raymond is the author of the Novak and Mitchell political thriller series, and the Duncan Grant spy thriller series. Crime fiction, however, he saw as an avenue to explore characters on the margins of society, dealing with social equality and injustice…

Serial killers. Hate mongers. Gangs at war. Dark secrets. That’s why you’re here and today’s new books report starts with murder and winds its way all the way through to one about a ghostwriter with skeletons in their closet, so to speak. So, plenty of…