CRUCIBLE by John Sayles

CRUCIBLE John Sayles (johnsaylesblog.com) Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop As the Roaring Twenties approach their end, October 1929 brings the Wall Street Crash and the start of what will come to be known as the Great Depression. In Detroit, Michigan, the Ford Motor Company continues to pay its […]

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 […]