The Smack by Richard Lange
Rowan Petty is a grifter on a downward roll. He’s eeking out an existence in Reno, pulling phone scams for a guy who he had originally brought into the business.…
The Susan Effect by Peter Hoeg, trans. Martin Aitken
The ‘effect’ is extreme empathy, and while Susan Svendsen is a strong example of the surprising results of being an empath, if she is together with her twins their power…
Guardian Thriller Roundup
Karen Slaughter’s response when her books are accused of being too dark and violent? Dial up those very qualities a notch or two. And her formidable new novel, The Good…
Death at the President’s Lodging by Michael Innes; The Incredible Crime by Lois Austen-Leigh
These two books are period pieces, and require some distance from today’s readers. Their archaic vocabulary habits, utter freedom from educating the young, except for admiring them as sportsmen, and…
Continental Crimes, The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books by Martin Edwards
Martin Edwards, The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (British Library Crime Classics) ISBN-13: 978-0712356961/Continental Crimes (British Library Crime Classics) ISBN-13: 978-0712356794 Of course most crime novels are ephemeral,…
Detective drama featuring Belgium’s most eccentric criminologist
Professor T launches on More 4 (courtesy of Walter Presents) on Friday 18th August at 9pm. Belgium’s most neurotic and endearing detective: PROFESSOR T. This gripping crime thriller will air…
The Freedom Broker: KJ Howe talks to Crime Time
Former hostage Peter Moore spent almost a 1000 days in captivity in Iraq. He was taken with four British military men, and tragically, Peter was the only person to survive.…
Crime Time Roundup
When I met the mother-and-daughter duo who were ‘P.J. Tracy’ (sadly, the mother died recently), I found that — rather like the male and female components of ‘Nicci French’ —…
CWA Daggers Shortlist Announced
The CWA Daggers shortlists were announced at an event at Waterstones Piccadilly on the 26th July.The winners of all the above CWA Daggers will be announced at the Dagger Awards…
ANNOUNCING THE KILLER WEEKEND
The Killer Weekend: October 28 & 29, 2017 at Browns, St Martin’s Lane, London, WC2N 4AG Want to write a crime novel? Got an idea but unsure how to progress…