Bloomsbury, 2009, ISBN 9780747589488, £10 A couple of years ago, a friend passed me a copy of In the Miso Soup, with the warning that it wa...
Bloomsbury, 2009, ISBN 9780747589488, £10 A couple of years ago, a friend passed me a copy of In the Miso Soup, with the warning that it wa...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008, ISBN 978-0151014088 Declan Burke has been on quite a trip with his hugely-acclaimed second novel, The Big O...
Russel has been a little slow with reviews lately. However, for some of his top reads of the year, and also those of other respected critics...
About a year ago, we reviewed one of the best new thrillers this reviewer had read in years. THE CLEANER was a breath of fresh air, a real a...
Two Ravens Press , £8.99, ISBN 978-1906120313 There is a theory that the best of novels engage in an ongoing dialogue with their readers....
Transworld, June 2008 , £17.99, ISBN978-1848270275 , SANCTUARY is the seventh, and possibly final, installment in the Galway-based Jack Tayl...
Three Rivers Press, 2008, 978-0307382795, $13.95 Jackson Donne is back. The Jersey PI, last seen in Dave White’s debut novel, When One Man...
A documentary on the making of Tony Black's Edinburgh based noir debut, Paying For It .
Walking the Perfect Square , 978-0-9792709-5-6 $13 And Redemption Street 978-0-9792709-5-6 (dec’08), $13 By Reed Far...
Preface Books, July ’08, 9781848090705, £16.99 We’re living in a new age of noir for the UK . Derek Raymond, Ted Lewis and their ilk were...
Charlie Stella's Sixth Novel Mafiya is the latest from one of Crime Scotland's favourite writers. We've described him as "l...
Bantam Press, 2008, $6.99, 9780553590845 Chase has been a getaway driver all his life. After the death of his parents, he’s been raised by h...
Dorchester Books, 2008, 978-0843960747 When you think of Hardboiled, you probably don’t think of Vancouver. Canada never seems – to us outsi...
Tony Black's excellent debut novel, Paying For It has its own trailer which we ripped from youtube for your viewing pleasure. A review ...
Sawbones by Stuart MacBride, Barrington Stoke, £5.99, 978-1842995297, July 2008 Flesh House by Stuart MacBride, HarperCollins, £12,99, 978-...
As ever, 2007 was a year where we ended up playing Catch Up and missed out on some reviews we wished we’d got round to sooner. Here’s our se...
Mark Billingham's DEATH MESSAGE was the last Thorne novel, while Billingham takes a break for a superb standalone IN THE DARK (we hope t...
Pegasus Books, $25, 978-1933648651 In tems of tone, Stella’s previous novels have been mostly described as darkly humorous, bearing particul...