UNTIL THY WRATH BE PAST Åsa Larsson Translated by Laurie Thompson MacLehose Press (www.maclehosepress.com) £12.99 Released: 4th August 2011 In the early spring thaw, the body of a young woman is discovered floating in the river Torne, in the northern extremes of Sweden. It doesn’t take long for police to discover that it’s the […]
Read More UNTIL THY WRATH BE PAST by Åsa LarssonKILLER MOVE Michael Marshall (michaelmarshallsmith.com) Orion (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £12.99 Michael Marshall is something of a cult writer. His first three novels, as well as the vast majority of his short stories, were published under the name Michael Marshall Smith and were mainly classified as science fiction (the novels) and horror (the stories). In 2002 he dropped […]
Read More KILLER MOVE by Michael MarshallGUN: A NOVELLA Ray Banks (www.thesaturdayboy.com) eBook £0.86 Here’s this week’s shameful secret: while I’ve been aware of Ray Banks for a number of years (a signed copy of his The Big Blind has been sitting on my shelves for close to five years), he’s not an author I’m at all familiar with. Gun, a […]
Read More GUN: A NOVELLA by Ray BanksTABOO Casey Hill (www.caseyhillbooks.com) Simon & Schuster (www.simonandschuster.co.uk) £6.99 “First in a new series featuring forensic investigator Reilly Steel,” the review copy informs me and I’m immediately on my guard. In my experience, this means one of two things: the author has already planned out the first twenty-seven books in the series and none of […]
Read More TABOO by Casey HillTHE RED HOUSE MYSTERY A. A. Milne Vintage Classics (www.randomhouse.co.uk/vintage/vintageclassics/) £7.99 Anyone who has perused Reader Dad at any point during its so-far short life could not help but notice that I like my fiction dark and, if at all possible, violent. So, it will probably come as something of a surprise (as it does […]
Read More THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY by A. A. MilnePLUGGED Eoin McNamee (www.eoincolfer.com) Headline (www.headline.co.uk) £12.99 Irish crime fiction is going through a golden era at the minute. Look at the wealth of crime fiction coming out of Ireland – both North and South – over the past handful of years, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more buoyant market anywhere else. From […]
Read More PLUGGED by Eoin ColferNO-ONE LOVES A POLICEMAN Guillermo Orsi Translated by Nick Caistor MacLehose Press (maclehosepress.com) £7.99 Argentina, December 2001. Against the background of a country in economic free-fall, we meet Pablo Martelli, a sixty-something bathroom appliance salesman with a history in the National Shame, an elite branch of the police force which lived up to their nickname […]
Read More NO-ONE LOVES A POLICEMAN by Guillermo OrsiALTAR OF BONES Philip Carter Simon & Schuster (www.simonandschuster.co.uk) £12.99 Thrillers and I have had something of a rocky relationship this year, going from one extreme (The Obelisk) to the other (Sanctus). Philip Carter’s Altar of Bones, I’ll say right at the outset, comes somewhere close to the Sanctus end of the spectrum. Carter is, […]
Read More ALTAR OF BONES by Philip CarterSanctus Simon Toyne (www.simontoyne.net) HarperCollins (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk) £12.99 Released: 14 April 2011 Welcome to Ruin in Southern Turkey. Home of the Citadel, a thousand-foot-high black mountain that houses a secretive holy order, around which the city has grown, and which is the most-visited historical site on the planet. The monks within the mountain serve a single […]
Read More SANCTUS by Simon ToyneThe Facility Simon Lelic (www.simonlelic.com) Mantle (mantle.panmacmillan.com) £12.99 Simon Lelic’s first novel, the quietly horrific RUPTURE, made him an instant “must-read”. THE FACILITY, his second novel, bleaker and tougher than the first, but no less enjoyable, has cemented that impression, leaving […]
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