DIRTY GEESE by Lou Gilmond

DIRTY GEESE Lou Gilmond (lougilmond.com) Fairlight Books (fairlightbooks.co.uk) £9.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Harry Colbey has just been promoted to the Cabinet as Minister for Personal Information, much to the delight of his social-butterfly wife. A general election is looming on the horizon and the Prime Minister wants Harry to shepherd […]

CENTRAL PARK WEST by James Comey

CENTRAL PARK WEST James Comey Aries / Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £20.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Former New York governor Tony Burke has been murdered in his Central Park West penthouse. All the evidence, including damning videos and the testimony of the building’s doorman, suggests that the culprit is none other […]

RELENTLESS MELT by Jeremy P. Bushnell

RELENTLESS MELT Jeremy P. Bushnell (jeremypbushnell.com) Melville House Books (mhpbooks.com) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Artie Quick is a 17-year-old Bostonian who wants to know everything there is to know about crime. By day, Artie is a shopgirl in Filene’s department store; by night, she dresses in men’s clothes so she […]

THE LAST PASSENGER by Will Dean

THE LAST PASSENGER Will Dean Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When Caz Ripley steps onboard the RMS Atlantica with her boyfriend Pete, it’s the start of the holiday of a lifetime. Caz is a homebird, a café owner slowly repaying a debt run up by her father […]

CUT AND SHUT – Jonathan Peace

CUT AND SHUT Jonathan Peace (jpwritescrime.com) Hobeck Books (hobeck.net) £9.99 Three young lads steal a car belonging to a Pakistani family and go for a joyride. The car, a “cut-and-shut” job, suffers a catastrophic failure and all three die horribly. The same night, two young Pakistani men make the mistake of going into a pub […]

Cover Reveal: THE GIRL IN THE EAGLE’S TALONS by Karin Smirnoff

THE GIRL IN THE EAGLE’S TALONS Karin Smirnoff Translated by Sarah Death MacLehose Press (maclehosepress.com/) £16.99 Coming 29th AUGUST 2023 In April last year, MacLehose Press announced that Lisbeth Salander would be returning to a bookshelf near you in 2023, penned by Scandinavian superstar Karin Smirnoff. Here at Reader Dad we’re huge fans of Stieg […]

THE SANCTUARY by Emma Haugton

THE SANCTUARY Emma Haughton (emmahaughton.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Zoey wakes in a strange room with no recollection of how she got here. Vague memories of a standard New York night out, clubbing with friends and then. ..nothing. Now, a strange room, in a house she’s […]

THE POLITICIAN by Tim Sullivan

THE POLITICIAN Tim Sullivan (timsullivan.co.uk) Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £20.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When Peggy Frampton is found, murdered, in the bedroom of her Bristol home it seems, at first glance, to be a robbery gone wrong. But something doesn’t ring true for Detective Sergeant George Cross, who is convinced […]

THE AXE WOMAN by Håkan Nesser

THE AXE WOMAN Håkan Nesser (nesser.se) Translated by Sarah Death Mantle (panmacmillan.com) £18.99 Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti returns to work following the sudden death of his wife as they slept in bed together. In order to ease him back into things, his boss hands him a cold case file and asks him to investigate: a man […]

THE INVISIBLE by Peter Papathanasiou

THE INVISIBLE Peter Papathanasiou MacLehose Press (maclehosepress.com) £16.99 Buy a copy at your favourite independent bookshop Following the accidental death of a teenage boy during an arrest-gone-wrong, Detective Sergeant George Manolis decides he needs a break. Arriving at the Greek town from whence his parents came, Manolis discovers that Lefty – a friend of the […]