TO SAVE THE MAN by John Sayles

TO SAVE THE MAN John Sayles (johnsaylesblog.com) Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop In September 1890 Antoine LaMere – son of an Ojibwe mother and a French father – boards the eastbound train. His destination is Captain Richard Henry Pratt’s Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, a military-style academy whose […]

SERAPHIM by Joshua Perry

SERAPHIM Joshua Perry Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When 16-year-old Robert Johnson confesses to the murder of a minor local celebrity, he finds himself in the care of Ben Alder and Boris Pasternak (really), public defenders who specialise in helping children. Ben is also defending one Robert McTell, […]

CINNAMON GIRL by Daniel Weizmann

CINNAMON GIRL Daniel Weizmann (danielweizmann.com) Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Adam Zantz, L.A.-based Lyft driver and private detective, is hired by his old piano teacher – and a very close friend of the uncle who raised him – to help with a case. Emil Elkaim, the piano teacher’s […]

SMOKE KINGS by Jahmal Mayfield

SMOKE KINGS Jahmal Mayfield (jahmalmayfield.com) Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Following the racially-motivated murder of one of their number, a small group of New Jersey friends decide to take the law into their own hands. But rather than seek revenge on the boys who killed their friend, they […]

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 […]

GOERING’S GOLD by Richard O’Rawe

GOERING’S GOLD Richard O’Rawe Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £12.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Ex-IRA member, and the man who robbed a Belfast bank and got away with £36.5 million, James “Ructions” O’Hare, is living in hiding with his girlfriend, in a small French village. When his hiding place is discovered by the […]