MINE by Susi Fox

MINE Susi Fox Penguin (www.penguin.co.uk) £7.99 Sasha Moloney awakens from a general anaesthetic to discover that she has delivered a baby boy – not the girl she was convinced she was having – by caesarean section almost a month early. It takes a single glance at the child in the nursery to convince Sasha that […]

THE OUTSIDER by Stephen King

THE OUTSIDER Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £20.00 When Frank Peterson’s young body is found, abused and mutilated, all of the eye-witnesses agree that the last time they saw him alive, he was with Terry Maitland, coach of Flint City, Oklahoma’s Little League team and all-round upstanding citizen. Forensic evidence also points to […]

THE HOUSE ON HALF MOON STREET by Alex Reeve

THE HOUSE ON HALF MOON STREET Alex Reeve Raven Books (www.bloomsbury.com) £12.99 Leo Stanhope works as a coroner’s assistant, spending his days writing reports and sewing up the autopsied bodies of the dead. Madly in love with Maria, he longs for the day when they can be together, for the day when she can leave […]

A BREATH AFTER DROWNING by Alice Blanchard

A BREATH AFTER DROWNING Alice Blanchard (aliceblanchard.com) Titan Books (titanbooks.com) £8.99 Celebrated child psychiatrist Kate Wolfe is still reeling from the suicide of one of her more stable patients when a new young girl is abandoned at the hospital where she works. It doesn’t take long for Kate to work out that this new girl […]

THE SEVEN DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE by Stuart Turton

THE SEVEN DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE Stuart Turton Raven Books (www.bloomsbury.com) £12.99 A man wakes in the middle of the woods and can remember nothing except the name “Anna”. Hearing noise nearby, he believes that Anna is being murdered, but has no idea why he believes this to be the case, or why she might […]

NOT THAT I COULD TELL by Jessica Strawser

NOT THAT I COULD TELL Jessica Strawser (jessicastrawser.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £18.99 An intimate get-together in the back garden of a house in Yellow Springs, Ohio may seem inconspicuous – a group of friends and neighbours gathered together for drinks and gossip – but when one of the women and her twin children have […]

MY LITTLE EYE by Stephanie Marland

MY LITTLE EYE Stephanie Marland (crimethrillergirl.com) Trapeze (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £7.99 There’s a serial killer on the loose in London. The Lover has already killed three women, leaving them made-up to look like someone else. The Metropolitan Police are struggling to find any leads. Meanwhile, the members of the True Crime London social network, including PhD student […]

EXTRACT: THE DARKNESS THAT DIVIDES US by Renate Dorrestein

THE DARKNESS THAT DIVIDES US Renate Dorrestein (renatedorrestein.nl) Translated by Hester Velmans (hestervelmans.com) World Editions (www.worldeditions.org) £11.99 As part of the Dutch Book Week celebrations, I’m very pleased to present an extract from Renate Dorrestein’s The Darkness that Divides Us. Follow the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #BoekenweekUk. We must at some point have […]

An Interview with EVA DOLAN

Name: Eva Dolan Author of: LONG WAY HOME (2014) TELL NO TALES (2015) AFTER YOU DIE (2016) WATCH HER DISAPPEAR (2017) THIS IS HOW IT ENDS (2018) On Twitter: @eva_dolan Eva Dolan was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger for unpublished authors when only a teenager. The four novels in her Zigic […]

THIS IS HOW IT ENDS by Eva Dolan

THIS IS HOW IT ENDS Eva Dolan Raven Books (www.bloomsbury.com) £12.99 During a party to celebrate the achievement of a major milestone in her anti-gentrification campaign, Ella Riordan finds herself in an apartment with a dead man. She calls on the only person she knows who might be able to help her: seasoned campaigner and […]