REVIEWS 2019/20/21

JANUARY

M. W. Craven- The Puppet Show

Dov Alfon- A Long Night In Paris

Peter May- The Man With No Face

FEBRUARY

Hanna Jameson- The Last

Christine Mangan- Tangerine

Alex Michaelides- The Silent Patient

Fergus McNeill- Ashes of America

MARCH

Eamonn Griffin- East of England

Ilaria Tuti- Flowers Over The Inferno

Craig Russell- The Devil Aspect

Mari Hannah- The Scandal

Kjell Ola Dahl- The Courier

David F. Ross- Welcome To The Heady Heights

APRIL

James Delargy- 55

Olivier Barde- Cabucon- Casanova and the Faceless Woman

Rafael Bernal- The Mongolian Conspiracy

MAY

Iain Maitland- Mr Todd’s Reckoning

William Shaw- Deadland

Chris Carter- Hunting Evil

Helen Fitzgerald- Worst Case Scenario

Doug Johnstone- Breakers

JUNE

Orlando Ortega-Medina- The Death of Baseball

Helga Flatland- A Modern Family

A. A. Dhand- One Way Out

Gunnar Staalesen- Wolves At The Door

JULY

 Sergio Olguin- The Fragility of Bodies

Oliver Bottini- The Dance of Death

M. P. Wright- A Sinner’s Prayer

AUGUST

Parker Bilal- The Divinities

Adrian McKinty- The Chain

Alex North- The Whisper Man

Trevor Mark Thomas- The Bothy

Guillaume Musso- The Reunion

Luca D’Andrea- Sanctuary

Sayaka Murata- Convenience Store Woman

Georgina Harding- The Gun Room

Cho Nam-Joo- Kim Jiyoung Born 1982

Carys Davies-West

Kevin Barry- Night Boat To Tangier

Valeria Luisella- Lost Children Archive

Max Porter- Lanny

Bernadine Evaristo- Girl, Woman, Other

Professor Patricia Wiltshire- Traces

Professor Angela Gallop- When The Dogs Don’t Bark

Dr. Richard Shepherd- Unnatural Causes

Hallie Rubenhold- The Five

SEPTEMBER

Clare Carson- The Canary Keeper

Rob Hart- The Warehouse

Laura Sims- Looker

Neil Broadfoot- No Man’s Land

Becky Chambers- To Be Taught, If Fortunate

OCTOBER 

A. D. Flint- The Burning Hill

NOVEMBER

G. D. Abson- Black Wolf

Will Carver- Nothing Important Happened Today

DECEMBER

Nicolas Obregon- Unknown Male

REVIEWS 2020

JANUARY

Jesper Stein- Die For Me

Doug Johnstone- A Dark Matter 

2020 Petrona Award For Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year

FEBRUARY

Jorn Lier Horst/ Thomas Enger- Death Deserved

Seishi Yokomizo- The Honjin Murders

Seishi Yokomizo- The Inugami Curse

Chris McDonald- A Wash Of Black

C. J. Skuse- The Alibi Girl

Kate Atkinson- Big Sky

Monisha Rajesh- Around,The World In 80 Trains

Sigri Sandberg- An Ode To Darkness

MARCH

Riku Onda- The Aosawa Murders

Michael Farris Smith- Blackwood

Vanda Symon- Containment

Amy Engel- The Familiar Dark

APRIL

Alan Parks- Bobby March Will Live Forever

A. Yi – Two Lives: Tales of Life, Love and Crime

Trevor Wood- The Man On The Street

Marion Brunet- Summer Of Reckoning

Vaseem Khan- Bad Day At The Vulture Club

Kjell Ola Dahl- Sister

MAY

Russell Day- King Of The Crows

Author Spotlight- Anna Jaquiery

Iain Maitland- The Scribbler

Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir- The Creak On The Stairs

Helen Fitzgerald- Ash Mountain

20 Books Of Summer 2020

JUNE

Gabriel Bergmoser- The Hunted

Craig Robertson- Watch Him Die

Lesley Kelly- The Health Of Strangers

David Jackson- The Resident

Rod Reynolds- Blood Red City

JULY

Eve Smith- The Waiting Rooms

Quentin Bates- Cold Malice

Nick Bradley- The Cat And The City

Awais Khan- In The Company Of Strangers

Judith O’Reilly- Killing State

Andrew James Greig- Whirligig

Tom Bale- Survive

Helen Callaghan- Night Falls, Still Missing

Doug Johnstone- The Big Chill

AUGUST

Chris Carter- Written In Blood

Will Carver- Hinton Hollow Death Trip

Steve Cavanagh- Fifty Fifty

J. J. Connolly- Layer Cake

Lin Anderson- The Innocent Dead

S. A. Cosby- Blacktop Wasteland

John Vercher- Three Fifths

SEPTEMBER

Parker Bilal- The Heights

Max Seeck- The Witch Hunter

Mikael Niemi- To Cook A Bear

Agnes Ravatn- The Seven Doors

Amer Anwar- Stone Cold Trouble

OCTOBER

Ben Creed- City of Ghosts

C. J. Cooke- The Nesting

NOVEMBER

Juris Jurjevics- Play The Red Queen

Gunnar Staalesen- Fallen Angels

Anthony J. Quinn- Turncoat

DECEMBER

Sólveig Pálsdóttir- The Fox

Castle Freeman- Children Of The Valley

REVIEWS 2021

John Barlow- Right To Kill

Books On The Hill- Open Dyslexia Kickstarter April 2021

Camilla Bruce- Triflers Need Not Apply

Will Carver- The Beresford 

Will Carver- Psychopaths Anonymous

Steve Cavanagh- The Devil’s Advocate

Ajay Chowdhury- The Waiter

 Bethany Clift- Last One At The Party

Andrew Cotto- Black Irish Blues

Nadia Dalbuono- The Devil (Leone Scamarcio 5)

Kjell Ola Dahl- The Assistant 

Will Dean- The Last Thing To Burn

James Delargy- Vanished 

A. A. Dhand- The Blood Divide

Eloísa Díaz- Repentance

Joel Dicker- The Disappearance Of Stephanie Mailer

Thomas Enger/ Jørn Lier Horst- Smoke Screen (tr. Megan Turney)

John Fullerton- Spy Game

Natalia Ginzburg- The Dry Heart

Tim Glister- Red Corona

Sara Gran- Come Closer

Oskar Gudmunsson- The Commandments

Mari Hannah- Without A Trace

Bogdan Hrib- Resilience

Sairish Hussain- The Family Tree

Ragnar Jonasson- The Girl Who Died

Ragnar Jonasson- Winterkill

Vaseem Khan- The Dying Day

Jérôme Leroy- Little Rebel (tr. Graham Roberts)

Nadine Matheson- The Jigsaw Man

Robbie Morrison- Edge Of The Grave

Abir Mukherjee- The Shadows Of Men

Mikael Niemi- To Cook A Bear

Sergio Olguín- The Foreign Girls

Sólveig Pálsdóttir- Silenced 

Stan Parish- Love and Theft 

Alan Parks- The April Dead

Rod Reynolds–Black Reed Bay

Mercedes Rosende- Crocodile Tears

William Shaw- The Trawlerman

Anita Sivakumaran- Cold Sun

Christina Sweeney-Baird- The End Of Men

P. J. Vernon- Bath Haus

Jen Williams- Dog Rose Dirt

Trevor Wood- One Way Street

M. P. Wright- A Traitor To His Blood

Phoebe Wynne- Madam