Around The Internet: James Lee Burke on Rain Gods

If you haven't read James Lee Burke, you should know he is a big favourite here at Crime Scene Scotland and the best argument for crime ...

No ordinary crime...

We know we’ve been quiet for a while, but here is a collection of generally shorter reviews on recent novels that bend the crime genre. Most...

BURY ME DEEP by Megan Abbott

Simon and Schuster, 2009 ISBN 978-1416599098 Bury Me Deep, Megan Abbott's fourth novel, is a 1930's set tale of abandonment, lust an...

TOWER by Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman

Busted Flush Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1935415077 Tower is the real deal; a collaborative novel that feels absolutely cohesive. Two voices that ...

THE TWELVE by Stuart Neville

Harvill-Secker, 2009, 978-1846552793 , £12.99 In the last couple of years, it feels like all the best new crime fiction has been coming out...

THE DISSASEMBLED MAN by Nate Flexer

New Pulp Press, 9780981557908 Nate Flexer's debut is a modern psycho noir in the tradition of Jim Thompson that is one of the first book...

GUTTED by Tony Black

Preface, June 2009, £16.99, ISBN 9781848090521 Gus Dury knows this much: he's a rager. His life is fuelled by anger, both impotent and j...

LOSER'S TOWN by Daniel Depp

Simon And Shuster, March 2009, 9781847374073 Ex-stuntman turned PI David Spandau knows the truth about tinsel-town, understands the egos and...

More we missed in 2008

Every year at Crime Scene Scotland we get sent more books than we can handle. Not that we're complaining, mind you. We try and give ever...

BEAST OF BURDEN by Ray Banks

Polygon, 2009, ISBN 9781846970986, £9.99 Please note that this review contains spoilers for previous books in the Cal Innes series. For thos...

Red Riding

Tonight, 9pm, Channel 4, the first of three film adaptations of David Peace's incredible Red Riding Quartet (yes, three films, although ...

BLEED A RIVER DEEP, Brian McGilloway

MacMillan, April '09, ISBN 978-0230701366, £12.99 In the last few years, Ireland has been consistently upping the stakes with its contri...

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE by Steig Larsson

Maclehouse Press, an imprint of Quercus Books, January 2009, ISBN 9781847245564, £16.99 The second in Larrson's Millennium trilogy, The ...

Donald E Westlake (Richard Stark) passes

The creator of Dortmunder and (under the name Richard Stark) master criminal Parker has passed away. He died on wednesday 29 December, 2008 ...

PARIAH by Dave Zeltserman

Serpent's Tail, 2009, ISBN 978-1846686436, £7.99 Its rare that a meta novel ends up being entertaining as well as clever, but Dave Zelts...