It’s another stand-out month for new crime fiction. From high-concept thrillers to murder mysteries, July’s new releases are brimming with intensity, intrigue, and unexpected twists. These stories ...

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Shari Lapena, author of Not A Happy Family: A book that I thoroughly enjoyed recently is Richard Osman’s The Man Who Died Twice. The main characters live in a posh retirement village in England, and ...

1. Titus Andronicus You don’t get much more of a blood bath than Titus Andronicus and it’s number one for crime. Thought to be Shakespeare’s first tragedy, it features executions, assassinations, rape ...

Ragnar Jonasson, author of The Mist: There were so many great crime novels in 2020, so it’s very difficult to choose. I absolutely loved Eight Detectives (Alex Pavesi) and Rules for Perfect Murders ...

Looking for up to date recommendations? Click here for the new crime TV shows you shouldn’t miss in 2022. 2020 saw us all spending much more time at home than ever before, for fairly obvious reasons.

Or the Bull Kills You by Jason Webster This first in Webster’s crime series is set against a beautiful Spanish backdrop and introduces Max Cámara, our series protagonist. In the city of Valencia, ...

Thomas Morris Thomas Morris is a writer and historian. His first book, The Matter of the Heart, a critically-acclaimed history of heart surgery, was published in 2017 and won an RSL Jerwood Award for ...

Cause For Alarm by Eric Ambler This 1938 classic takes fish-out-of-water protagonist Nicholas Marlow from Wolverhampton, England to Milan, Italy to work at the Spartacus Machine Tool Company. On ...

At a star-studded ceremony at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, the great and the good of the crime community came together to see the inaugural Dead Good Reader Award ...