DARK OBJECTS by Simon Toyne

DARK OBJECTS Simon Toyne (simontoyne.net) HarperCollins (harpercollins.co.uk) £14.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop The body of a wealthy woman is found in the living room of her ultra-modern, ultra-secure Highgate home, surrounded by four strange objects. DCI Tannahill Khan catches the case and discovers that one of the objects is a book […]

An Extract from KID by Sebastian de Souza

KID: 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 […]

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 […]

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HER DISAPPEAR (2017) THIS IS HOW IT ENDS (2018) On Twitter: @eva_dolan Eva Dolan was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger for unpublished authors when only a teenager.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 […]

LITTLE BOY FOUND by L.K. Fox

LITTLE BOY FOUND L.K. Fox (http://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/) Quercus (https://www.quercusbooks.co.uk/) £0.99 As he does every morning, Nick drops his son at school. As he is pulling away from the school gates, he is involved in a minor collision with a car that doesn’t stop. Nick acts quickly, snapping a picture of the receding car on his phone […]

An Interview with ANTONIN VARENNE

Name: ANTONIN VARENNE Author of: BED OF NAILS (2012) LOSER’S CORNER (2014) RETRIBUTION ROAD (2017) Antonin Varenne was awarded the Prix Michel Lebrun and the Grand Prix du Jury Sang d’encre for Bed of Nails, his first novel to be translated into English. His second, Loser’s Corner was awarded the Prix des Lecteurs […]

RETRIBUTION ROAD by Antonin Varenne

RETRIBUTION ROAD Antonin Varenne Translated by Sam Taylor (samtaylorwriter.wixsite.com/sam-taylor-writer) MacLehose Press (www.maclehosepress.com) £18.99 Sergeant Arthur Bowman is a fifteen-year veteran of the East India Company’s private army when he and his team are taken prisoner in Burma in 1852. Six months of torture leave him mentally and physically scarred when he is released along with […]

GUEST POST: World Building in the RELICS Universe by Tim Lebbon

Name: TIM LEBBON Author of: COLDBROOK (2012) THE HUNT (2015) RELICS (2017) On the web: http://www.timlebbon.net On Twitter: @timlebbon I love world building. A few years ago I wrote a series of fantasy novels for Bantam in the USA, and also a couple for Orbit in the UK. Four of these––the Noreela novels––all […]

DUST AND DESIRE by Conrad Williams

DUST AND DESIRE (A Joel Sorrell Novel) Conrad Williams (conradwilliams.wordpress.com) Titan Books (titanbooks.com) £7.99 London-based private investigator Joel Sorrell has gotten himself entangled in a most bizarre missing person case. Hired to look into the disappearance of his client’s brother, Sorrell begins to believe that he may be on a wild goose chase, especially when […]