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 […]

An Extract from THE DYING SQUAD by Adam Simcox

THE DYING SQUAD Adam Simcox Gollancz (gollancz.co.uk) £16.99 Winter hated Lincolnshire. It sprinkled frost on its fields, squatted on the remains of its abandoned crops and draped everything in a sea of compacted fog, almost as if it were embarrassed by the place. The flatness of its Arctic landscape had always made Joe think of […]

An Excerpt From WYCHWOOD by George Mann

WYCHWOOD George Mann (george-mann.com) Titan Books (titanbooks.com) £7.99 As a child he had practised on birds. He’d grown quite adept at it: finding just the right kind of smooth-sided pebble, fitting it to the pouch of a catapult he’d stashed in his secret place in the woods, choosing exactly the right target. He’d started with […]

LOW TOWN: THE STRAIGHT RAZOR CURE by Daniel Polansky

THE STRAIGHT RAZOR CURE (LOW TOWN 1) Daniel Polansky (www.danielpolansky.com) Hodder (hodder.co.uk) £7.99 Warden is a drug dealer and hard man on the streets of Low Town. Ex-soldier, ex-lawman, it is only his past that keeps him above suspicion when he stumbles upon the body of a young girl. When a second body is found, […]

THE BLACK PATH by Åsa Larsson

THE BLACK PATH Åsa Larsson Translated by Marlaine Delargy MacLehose Press (maclehosepress.com) £18.99 Late last summer, MacLehose Press published Åsa Larsson’s Until Thy Wrath Be Past. Despite multiple attempts in my review to convince people that it was the third book in the series, it turns out that it was, actually, the fourth. MacLehose’s latest […]