KNOCK KNOCK Anders Roslund (andersroslund.se) Harvill Secker (penguin.co.uk) £12.99 Seventeen years ago Detective Inspector Ewert Grens arrived at a crime scene to discover a birthday party interrupted. A 5-year-old girl dances around her apartment singing happy birthday to herself as the rest of her family lie dead, two bullets in each of their heads in […]
Read More KNOCK KNOCK by Anders RoslundRAGE Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman (stephenking.com) Currently unavailable Today is the day that Charles Everett Decker is going to “get it on.” Charlie, as he’s known by those around him, arrives at his early-morning algebra class with his father’s pistol and a pocketful of ammunition. After shooting dead his teacher, he takes his […]
Read More RAGE by Richard BachmanTHE WHOLE TRUTH Cara Hunter Penguin Books (penguin.co.uk) £7.99 A sexual assault and harassment complaint seems an unusual case to land on Detective Inspector Adam Fawley’s desk, but that’s where it ends up. A university student’s word against a well-respected professor. Except there’s a twist. Strapping rugby player Caleb Morgan claims that the diminutive Marina […]
Read More THE WHOLE TRUTH by Cara HunterDON’T TURN AROUND Jessica Barry Vintage (penguin.co.uk) £7.99 Start from Chapter 1 at A Little Book Problem. Or find Chapter 13 at Shaz’s Book Blog. CHAPTER 14 TWO YEARS EARLIER The cut and scrape of silverware on good china. The tinkling of champagne glasses clinking together in a toast. The murmur of polite conversation, gentle […]
Read More An Extract From DON’T TURN AROUND by Jessica BarryEMPIRE OF WILD Cherie Dimaline (cheriedimaline.com) Weidenfeld & Nicolson (weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk) £14.99 Thanks to the lovely people at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, I have a copy of Cherie Dimaline’s Empire of Wild to give away. Let’s have some fun with it: at its heart, Empire of Wild is a werewolf story, relying on the stories and legends […]
Read More COMPETITION: Win a copy of EMPIRE OF WILD by Cherie DimalineEMPIRE OF WILD Cherie Dimaline (cheriedimaline.com) Weidenfeld & Nicolson (weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk) £14.99 Stepping outside to cool off after an argument, Victor disappears into the forest and his wife, Joan, spends eleven months and six days trying to find him. On the seventh day of that fateful twelfth month, a hungover Joan pulls into the parking lot […]
Read More EMPIRE OF WILD by Cherie DimalineTHE FALL OF KOLI (The Rampart Trilogy, Book 3) M. R. Carey Orbit Books (orbitbooks.net) £9.99 And so Koli Faceless – who we’ve known by many names over the course of his tale: Woodsmith, Rampart, Witless – and his friends come to the source of the broadcast claiming to be the Sword of Albion. From […]
Read More THE FALL OF KOLI by M. R. CareyTHE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET Catriona Ward Viper (serpentstail.com/viper) £12.99 Ted Bannerman lives in the house at the end of Needless Street with his cat, Olivia. Sometimes his daughter, Lauren, comes to stay; sometimes the visits are fun, and often they’re stressful. Delilah Walters has one mission in life: to find and punish the […]
Read More THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET by Catriona WardKID: A HISTORY OF THE FUTURE SEBASTIAN DE SOUZA ( offlinerpress.com ) OFFLINER PRESS (offlinerpress.com) £9.99 CHAPTER 1 CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA I’m definitely coming up. They must be too. The CD in my Walkman skips a little before finding itself again. Liam Gallagher singing about a champagne supernova and being caught beneath a landslide… The Roxi […]
Read More An Extract from KID by Sebastian de SouzaLATER Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hard Case Crime (hardcasecrime.com) £8.99 Looking back on it, I sometimes think my life was like a Dickens novel, only with swearing. From a young age Jamie Conklin has been able to see dead people. Sometimes it’s difficult to tell, because they don’t look like anyone’s conventional idea of a ghost, […]
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