Review Round Up November 2011

ALREADY GONE by John Rector, Amazon Encore, ISBN 9781439276006 With THE COLD KISS, Rector made an immediate impact upon us here at Crime Sce...

CHOKE HOLD by Christa Faust

Hard Case Crime, ISBN 9780857682857, $7.99, $9.95 Faust has long been a favourite here at Crime Scene Scotland. From the sheer bravura of MO...

Round up July 2011

We're still here, you know. Still reading the best crime books. We've made a decision recently that in order to keep the reviews goi...

THE DEPUTY by Victor Gischler

THE DEPUTY by Victor Gischler Tyrus Books, 9781935562009 (pb) / 9781935562016 (hb) Victor Gischler’s THE DEPUTY is one of those hick-town h...

DR YES by Bateman

DR. YES By Bateman Headline, £14.99, 9780755378609 MYSTERY MAN was one of those books that grabbed me from the opening page. Bateman’s Books...

DON'T LOOK BACK by Laura Lippman

DON’T LOOK BACK by Laura Lippman Avon Books – March, 2010, £6.99 978147560940 Laura Lippman impressed us here at Crime Scene Scotland when w...

Private Eyes From the Hardboiled Guys

INNOCENT MONSTER by Reed Farrel Coleman Tyrus Books, $24.95, ISBN 9781935562207 A DROP OF THE HARD STUFF by Lawrence Block , Mulholland Boo...

FOURTH DAY and KILLER INSTINCT by Zoe Sharp

FOURTH DAY, Alison and Busby, £19.99, 9780749008154 (HB) KILLER INSTINCT, Busted Flush Press, $15, 9781935415138 (PB) First time I met Charl...

2010 summer roundup

Yes, its been a hiatus for a while here at Crime Scene Scotland, but we're back with a heaping helping of reviews to let you know what w...

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...