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Review of White Dog by Peter Temple
Sarah Longmore is about to stand trial for the murder of her former lover, a property developer who’s business was in trouble. Jack Irish has been hired to look into her defence and the veracity of...
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Review: Fred Vargas - The Ghost Riders of Ordebec | Crimepieces
Most of the books that I review on this blog are either by writers who I already enjoy, or ones that I’m keen to try. However, like all readers I have my favourite authors and Fred Vargas is one of...
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Review of White Bones - Graham Masterton | Novel Heights
Title – White Bones Author - Graham Masterton Published - 1 March 2013 Genre – Crime fiction This was a review copy I received from Head of Zeus. The story is set in Ireland and opens with the...
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Review - Gone Again by Doug Johnstone | Eurocrime
Doug Johnstone's books go from strength to strength. His latest novel, GONE AGAIN, is several notches up from his last one, HIT & RUN, and, as that was my Number 1 book choice for 2012, this is...
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Euro Crime: Review: Baksheesh by Esmahan Aykol
BAKSHEESH is the second of the Kati Hirschel mysteries, following on from HOTEL BOSPHORUS. Kati Hirschel is the forty-something owner of a specialist crime bookshop in Istanbul. Her parents are German...
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Review - A Man Without Breath by Philip Kerr
A MAN WITHOUT BREATH is the ninth book in the Bernie Gunther series. This series, which has previously taken the reader from the difficult days of Weimar Germany through the Second World War to the...
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Review - The Golden Calf by Helene Tursten
This is the fifth of the Irene Huss novels to be translated into English and the second translated by Laura A Wideburg - there are 10 in total published in Swedish thus far. Irene Huss is a...
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Dead Lions, by Mick Herron | International Noir Fiction
A few years ago, a review copy of a book by an author I hadn't heard of, Mick Herron, arrived in my mailbox courtesy of Soho Crime publishers. The book was Slow Horses; its sequel, Dead Lions, arrived...
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Review: THE ROBBERS, Paul Anderson | Mysteries in Paradise
The Victoria Police Armed Robbery Squad has long been considered the hardest and most feared group of Victorian detectives. They operate without fear or favour. Newspaper journalist Ian Malone, new to...
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Review: Catriona McPherson - Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses...
It's good when you read a book without any preconceptions at all. Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses looked like a light-hearted fun read, based only on the book cover and the accompanying...
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Review: Last Will by Liza Marklund | The Game's Afoot
Last Will, the sixth instalment in the series featuring crime reporter Annika Bengtzon, takes place shortly after the events related in the previous book, Red Wolf. Annika is covering the Nobel Banquet...
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Review of Kevin Sampson, The Killing Pool | Raven Crime Reads
Detective Chief Inspector Billy McCartney discovers a headless corpse in the scrubland close to Liverpool docks. The slaying carries all the hallmarks of a gangland hit - a message from the underworld...
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Review: A Not So Perfect Crime by Teresa Solana | Crime Segments
A Not So Perfect Crime is the first of three in a series of novels featuring twin brothers Eduard Martínez Estivill and Jose Martínez Estivill, the latter known as Borja Masdéu-Canals Sáez de Astorga...
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Review: DOGSTAR RISING by Parker Bilal | Reactions to Reading
DOGSTAR RISING takes place during the Egyptian summer of 2001. Makana is an exiled Sudanese policeman now working as a private detective in Cairo and he is hired by the owner of a struggling...
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Ishmael Toffee by Roger Smith | Col's Crimimal Library
This is the second time I’ve tasted Roger Smith’s violent prose, after reading the excellent Mixed Blood late last year. Mixed Blood was my favourite book of November 2012, so I’ve been meaning to get...
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Review: William Ryan - The Twelfth Department | Crimepieces
William Ryan's historical mysteries featuring Captain Korolev, a Moscow Militia police investigator, are becoming another 'must read' for me. The books are packed with a wealth of period detail; set in...
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Hakan Nesser- The Weeping Girl | Raven Crime Reads
Winnie Maas died because she changed her mind . . . A community is left reeling after a teacher – Arnold Maager – is convicted of murdering his female pupil Winnie Maas. It seems the girl had been...
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Review: David Mark - Original Skin | Raven Crime Reads
Simon and Suzie are two pleasure seekers defined by their flamboyant tattoos. Peter Tressider is a politician on the fast track to the top. DS Aector McAvoy is a policeman with scars to his body...
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Review: The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan | Reactions to Reading
Really you should just head over to Petrona Remembered and read Laura Root's review of the book which prompted me to immediately seek out my library's copy. All I really need to say in addition is:...
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Review of ‘A Delicate Truth,’ by John le Carré | NY Times
In John le Carré’s new novel, “A Delicate Truth,” shortsightedness, hypocrisy, lies and unfettered greed plague the “post-imperial, post-cold-war world.”See it on Scoop.it, via Blue House & Co...
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