4+ hour, 36+ min ago  (252+ words) Crime Fiction Lover The Bone Mother by Suzy Aspley In 2024, The Crow Moon was an intriguing debut by British author Suzy Aspley and The Bone Mother is its sequel. Both books are gothic mysteries featuring Martha Strangeways as she investigates…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (886+ words) Crime Fiction Lover On the Radar: Gimme some of that sweet, sweet mystery Some crime authors are just too darned sneaky! I mean, getting us to read their books by tempting us with delectable delights " that really is criminal. But…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (149+ words) Crime Fiction Lover First Look: The Tailor by Tim Sullivan Tim Sullivan's neurodivergent detective, George Cross, returns for an eighth case in The Tailor on 16 July 2026. Once again, the Bristol-based detective sergeant will be working a murder. He's solved cases…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (773+ words) Universities are supposed to be places of quiet scholarship, polite disagreement and excessive footnotes" not suspicious deaths. Yet in RO Thorp's Marked for Death, the cloistered world of academia proves just as dangerous as any dark alley, picturesque English village…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (477+ words) Crime Fiction Lover Shadows on Sidewalks by James Grady Successful writer James Traven returns to his small Montana hometown after some time away to care for his elderly mother. He finds at once that much has changed and nothing at…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (530+ words) This is a book-length graphic novel and the cutting between scenes is as sharp as a movie. Its monochrome panels are raw and immediate, pared back to the essentials. There is a sense of an urban California setting going by…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (792+ words) Crime Fiction Lover On the Radar: Michael Connelly's Ironwood, and more It's always big news when a new Michael Connelly novel is announced. This week the creator of detective Harry Bosch is back with the second in his new series,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (335+ words) Astronaut! is a satirical police procedural and coming-of-age story set in the final months of Nicolae Ceau'escu's dictatorship in 1989 Romania. At the centre of the story are Constantin, a weary police detective, and Lia, a rebellious schoolgirl. Both have to…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (380+ words) Lawyer Michael Cowan's new crime novel, John B Peoples, is a fascinating trip through the ambiguous places where the ragged edges of law, ethics and justice meet up. For a book of fewer than 250 pages, it packs in a lot!...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (171+ words) Having previously written historical mysteries set in 1920s Calcutta, Abir Mukherjee changed track in 2024 and came up with Hunted "a thriller set in the United States with an explosive, toxic politics-infused plot line. He slam dunked it, winning Thriller of the…...