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...