GUEST POST: My Love Affair with Detectives by Elspeth Latimer

THE LOST DETECTIVE Elspeth Latimer (Instagram / Facebook) Story Machine (storymachines.co.uk) £10.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop or through Zoe’s Book Tours Why do detectives have such a hold on me? I discovered Philip Marlowe in my teens, and VI Warshawski in my twenties, and ever since I’ve been hooked on detective fiction. Whether contemporary […]

THE LOST DETECTIVE by Elspeth Latimer

THE LOST DETECTIVE Elspeth Latimer Story Machine (storymachines.co.uk) £10.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop or through Zoe’s Book Tours Dan Hennessy is ex-police, a man trying to find his way in a world that was upended in a single, devastating moment when his fiancee – the woman he loved and with whom […]

THE FRIEND OF THE FAMILY by Dean Koontz

THE FRIEND OF THE FAMILY Dean Koontz (deankoontz.com) Thomas & Mercer (brilliancepublishing.com) £19.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Alida is a “human oddity”, what many might call a freak. For the first seventeen years of her life, she is the property of Captain Forest Farnam, the star attraction in his “Museum of the […]

CRUCIBLE by John Sayles

CRUCIBLE John Sayles (johnsaylesblog.com) Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop As the Roaring Twenties approach their end, October 1929 brings the Wall Street Crash and the start of what will come to be known as the Great Depression. In Detroit, Michigan, the Ford Motor Company continues to pay its […]

DARKER DAYS by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

DARKER DAYS Thomas Olde Heuvelt (oldeheuvelt.com) Translated by Lia Belt (smarttranslations.nl) Bantam Books (penguin.co.uk) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop In the small town of Lock Haven, Washington you’ll find a secluded cul-de-sac called Bird Street. There are half a dozen houses on Bird Street, a handful of families who harbour a […]

KING SORROW by Joe Hill

KING SORROW Joe Hill (joehillfiction.com) Headline (headline.co.uk) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop It’s 1989 and Arthur Oakes is in his third year at Rackham College, with his best friend Donovan “Van” McBride and Van’s twin sister, Donna, Allison Shiner and Colin Wren. His mother is incarcerated in Vermont’s House of Correction […]

THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT by Christopher Golden & Brian Keene

THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW ITNew Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand Edited byChristopher Golden (christophergolden.com)Brian Keene (briankeene.com) With an Introduction byStephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Almost 50 years after its first publication (and 35 since its re-release in a much […]

GOING HOME IN THE DARK by Dean Koontz

GOING HOME IN THE DARK Dean Koontz (deankoontz.com) Thomas & Mercer (amazon.com) £19.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Rebecca, Ernie, Bobby and Spencer have always been the “four amigos”, ever since bonding as outcasts, four nerdy teens against the rest of the school, the town, the world. When they grow, Rebecca, Bobby […]

NEVER FLINCH by Stephen King

NEVER FLINCH Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Welcome back to Buckeye City, Ohio, where the Chief of Detectives at the city’s Police Department has just received a disturbing letter from someone promising to kill thirteen innocent – and one guilty – people to atone […]

TO SAVE THE MAN by John Sayles

TO SAVE THE MAN John Sayles (johnsaylesblog.com) Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop In September 1890 Antoine LaMere – son of an Ojibwe mother and a French father – boards the eastbound train. His destination is Captain Richard Henry Pratt’s Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, a military-style academy whose […]