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 […]

THE LATECOMER by Jean Hanff Korelitz

THE LATECOMER Jean Hanff Korelitz (jeanhanffkorelitz.com) Faber & Faber (faber.co.uk) £8.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop The Oppenheimer triplets…had been in full flight from one another as far back as their ancestral petri dish. Not one of the three – Harrison (the smart one), Lewyn (the weird one), or Sally (the girl) […]

FIRST BORN by Will Dean

FIRST BORN Will Dean Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £14.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Molly Raven lives her life assessing and avoiding risks wherever possible. One half of a pair of identical twins, Molly feels that she is the darker of the two, the twin who ended up with all of the […]

GUEST POST: So it’s a Historical Book by JOHN STEELE

RAT ISLAND John Steele Silvertail Books (silvertailbooks.com) £12.99 ‘So it’s a historical book.’ The NYPD sergeant stood in the Fifth Precinct, in Elizabeth Street in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown. He had delivered a statement of fact with all the blunt authority you’d expect from a New York cop. I blanched for a […]

THE DEFENCE by Steve Cavanagh

THE DEFENCE Steve Cavanagh (stevecavanagh.com) Orion Books (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £12.99 “Do exactly as I tell you or I’ll put a bullet in your spine.” Pushing the gun hard into my back, he said, “I’ll follow you out of the bathroom. You’ll put on your coat. You’ll pay for breakfast, and we’ll leave together. We’re going to […]

THE FIRST STONE by Elliott Hall

THE FIRST STONE Elliott Hall (elliott-hall.co.uk) John Murray (www.johnmurray.co.uk) £7.99 Elliott Hall’s 2009 debut novel, and the first in his Felix Strange trilogy, The First Stone, is the subject of the latest Hodderscape Review Project. Don’t forget to check out the thoughts of my fellow reviewers, to which you’ll find links on the Hodderscape website. […]

A TAP ON THE WINDOW by Linwood Barclay

A TAP ON THE WINDOW Linwood Barclay (linwoodbarclay.com) Orion (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £16.99 Heading home from an out-of-town job on a wet and miserable night, Cal Weaver stops at a red light close to Griffon, New York’s local hangout spot. When a teenage girl taps on his window and asks for a lift, Cal knows it’s the […]

WE ARE HERE by Michael Marshall

WE ARE HERE Michael Marshall (www.michaelmarshallsmith.com) Orion Books (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £16.99 On a visit to New York to meet his publisher, David bumps into a man on the street – the sort of innocent collision that happens all the time on busy city pavements – who follows him back to Penn Station and confronts him. He […]

GUN MACHINE by Warren Ellis

GUN MACHINE Warren Ellis (www.warrenellis.com) Mulholland Books (www.mulhollandbooks.co.uk) £13.99 On playing back the 911 recording, it’d seem that Mrs. Stegman was more concerned that the man outside her apartment door was naked than that he had a big shotgun. John Tallow is a New York City detective, riding on the coattails of his much more […]

THE INQUISITOR by Mark Allen Smith

THE INQUISITOR Mark Allen Smith (www.markallensmith.com) Simon & Schuster (www.simonandschuster.co.uk) £12.99 Geiger is a man without a past; his life started with his arrival, several years before, in New York. Before that, a black hole. After chance leads him to the local Mafia boss, he decides to go into Information Retrieval – torturing subjects to […]