Latest Reads: Person’s Unknown Susie Steiner

Publication Date: Available Now from The Borough Press Source: Purchased Copy Manon has settled back into life in Cambridgeshire with her adopted son Fly. She’s perfectly happy working on cold cases until a man is stabbed to death just yards from the police station, and both the victim and the… Continue reading

Latest Reads: I Still Dream James Smythe

Publication Date: 5th April from Borough Press Source: Review Copy 1997. 17-year-old Laura Bow has invented a rudimentary artificial intelligence, and named it Organon. At first it’s intended to be a sounding-board for her teenage frustrations, a surrogate best friend; but as she grows older, Organon grows with her. As… Continue reading

Latest Reads: The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland. Nicolai Houm

Publication Date: 26th April from Pushkin Press Source: Review Copy An American woman wakes up alone in a tent in the Norwegian mountains. Outside a storm rages and the fog is dense. Her phone is dead. She doesn’t have a map or a compass or any food.  How she ended… Continue reading

Latest (Early) Reads: Orchid and the Wasp Caoilinn Hughes

Publication Date: June 7th from OneWorld Source: Review Copy Orchid & the Wasp brings to life the charged, compulsive voice of Gael Foess – daughter of a self-interested investment banker and a once-formidable orchestral conductor, and sister to a vulnerable younger brother – as she strives to build a life raft… Continue reading

Latest Reads: Good Friday Lynda La Plante

Publication Date: Available Now from Bonnier Zaffre Source: Review Copy On the way to court one morning, Jane passes through Covent Garden Underground station and is caught up in a bomb blast that leaves several people dead, and many horribly injured. Jane is a key witness, but is adamant that… Continue reading

Latest (Early) reads: Murder at the Grand Raj Palace Vaseem Khan

Publication Date: 3rd May from Mulholland Source: Review Copy For a century the iconic Grand Raj Palace Hotel has welcomed the world’s elite. From film stars to foreign dignitaries, anyone who is anyone stays at the Grand Raj. The last thing the venerable old hotel needs is a murder… When… Continue reading

Latest Reads: Night Moves Jonathan Kellerman.

Publication Date: Available Now from Headline Source: Review Copy ALEX DELAWARE RETURNS . . . A brilliant criminal psychologist, Alex works with the police to help solve the most complex of crimes in Los Angeles, city of illusions, glamour and infamy. An affluent family returns home from Sunday dinner only… Continue reading

Latest Reads: The Darkness Ragnar Jonasson

Publication Date: Available Now from Michael Joseph Source: Review Copy. At sixty-four, Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir of the Reykjavik Police is about to take on her last case before she retires: A young woman, an asylum seeker from Russia, found murdered on the seaweed covered rocks of the Vatnsleysuströnd in… Continue reading

Latest Reads: Tangerine Christine Mangan

Publication Date: 22nd March from Little Brown Source: Review Copy The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the accident at Bennington, the two friends—once inseparable roommates—haven’t spoken in over a year. But there Lucy was, trying to… Continue reading