Books

Part Welsh, part Canadian, Cathy Ace has made her name synonymous with modern cosy crime fiction – winning awards and adding to her series year in, year out. Her latest is soon to arrive and The Corpse with the Iron Will is first up in this week’s new books report. But what if you don’t
0 Comments
Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung for $1.99 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton for $2.99 Hunger by Roxane Gay for $2.99 The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel for $1.99 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by
0 Comments
the Jessica James mysteries, a series of fast-paced, funny, feminist mysteries. Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by the Jessica James mysteries, a series of fast-paced, funny, feminist mysteries. Today’s Featured Deals $1.99 Well Played by Jen DeLuca Get This Deal $1.99 All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Get This Deal $2.99
0 Comments
Ontario screenwriter and novelist John McFetridge is best known for the well-crafted, classic, hardboiled fiction which makes up his Toronto and Eddie Dougherty series. In his latest novel, billed as the first Gordon Stewart Mystery, he has tried something different. Every City is Every Other City a private eye mystery with strong buddy and romance
0 Comments
Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals The Boston Massacre by Serena R. Zabin for $3.99 Seed to Harvest: The Complete Patternist Series by Octavia E. Butler for $3.99 The Likeness by Tana French for $1.99 Dear Mrs. Bird by AJ Pearce for $1.99 Anna K by Jenny
0 Comments
We’re at book 20 in the Temperance Brennan series (the first, Deja Dead, came out in 1997, for heaven’s sake!), and crime fiction’s favourite forensic anthropologist is stuck in South Carolina when a massive storm hits. Luckily she and her cat, Bird, escape unscathed. The same cannot be said for a medical waste container that
0 Comments
Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Anna K by Jenny Lee for $2.99 The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai for $4.99 The Red Tent by Anita Diamant for $2.99 The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons for $1.99 The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi for
0 Comments
RG Belsky’s Clare Carlson is a New York City television news director, and her skill at getting to the truth doesn’t take a back seat to anyone’s. There may be delays, detours, and false starts, but she gets there in the end, as we’ve already seen in Yesterday’s News, Below the Fold and The Last
0 Comments
Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai for $4.99 The Red Tent by Anita Diamant for $2.99 The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons for $1.99 Whisper Network by Chandler Baker for $2.99 The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi for
0 Comments
Crime Fiction Lover HQ is in the United Kingdom, and as spring progresses we’re fortunate to be emerging from lockdown. We hope things are easing where you are too, although we know that some places still have it pretty tough. Stay safe, and keep reading crime fiction is our advice. This week’s new books column
0 Comments
Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Whisper Network by Chandler Baker for $2.99 The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi for $2.99 Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for $1.99 Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust for $2.99 Fates and Furies by Lauren
0 Comments
Floodland is a Belgium-Netherlands co-production set in modern day Flanders-Zeeland, the borderland region between the two countries either side of the Scheldt river. It’s a blackly comic police drama that draws heavily on the clash of cultures between city, cosmopolitan liberal values and an out-of-touch rural community. Floodland began streaming in the UK on All4,
0 Comments
Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff for $2.99 Skyhunter by Marie Lu for $2.99 The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery for $2.99 You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson for $1.99 Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust for
0 Comments
Translated by Allison Markin Powell and Marie Iida — Lady Joker, Kaoru Takamura’s 1997 epic and the first of her novels to be translated into English, is part crime fiction and part social commentary. The publication in Japan came at a turning point in the author’s career, moving from crime fiction to literary fiction. Lady
0 Comments
Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson for $1.99 Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust for $2.99 The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo for $2.99 Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
0 Comments
In her 2020 psychological thriller, now available in paperback, Irish author Siobhán MacDonald explores the consequences of a tragedy that occurred a decade-and-a-half before the story begins. The perpetrator, Dr Luke Forde, a paediatric cardiothoracic surgeon, has tried to put it behind him, but his failure to do so is evidenced nightly by his patchy
0 Comments
Gallery Books. Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Gallery Books. Today’s Featured Deals $1.99Wolf Rain by Nalini Singh Get This Deal $2.99Skyhunter by Marie Lu Get This Deal $1.99You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson Get This Deal $2.99The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery Get This Deal In case you
0 Comments
Earlier in 2021, we reviewed Silenced, the second crime novel to appear in English from Icelandic crime author Sólveig Pálsdóttir. Following on from The Fox, also reviewed on our site, Silenced sees Reykjavik detective Gudgier Fransson investigating the death of a woman in prison. Both novels demonstrate Sólveig’s unique, soft and rather contemplative approach to
0 Comments
Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro for $2.99 It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura for $1.99 Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo for $2.99 Still Lives by Maria Hummel for $1.99 The Walls Around Us
0 Comments
With strikingly designed covers, new editions of five novels by Chester Himes have appeared the shelves. Featuring Coffin Ed and Gravedigger Jones, the reprinting of these hardboiled detective stories is good news – Himes was an American crime fiction genius who is still underappreciated. When it comes to hardboiled crime fiction, critics regard Chandler and
0 Comments
Stark House Press does a grand job bringing classic American pulp novels to a new audience and occasionally publishes contemporary tales that catch the spirit of those mid-20th century originals. Timothy J Lockhart’s A Certain Man’s Daughter, the title drawn from a poem, is in that vein. It’s pacy, lean and peppered with cynicism but
0 Comments
No, no, we’re not talking about independence. This isn’t a political column. It’s Scots author Val McDermid’s new graphic novel, Resistance, which leads off our new books roundup this week. Her compatriot Denise Mina has previously adapted Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to the format, and now McDermid has her own original
0 Comments
Calling all diverse women writers! LitUp—a writer’s fellowship from Reese’s Book Club—is accepting fee-free applications from unpublished, underrepresented women writers. Reese’s Book Club, along with We Need Diverse Books, have created this fellowship to aid diverse emerging writers so “more diverse stories are seen, heard, and read by all.” LitUp has partnered with Hello Sunshine
0 Comments
If you’re going away to college, don’t forget to pack this cookbook filled with delicious recipes for all the foods you love. “College Cooking 101: Fast Food Without a Kitchen” contains over 80 recipes for the grab-n-go meals that fuel today’s student. This book was born out of necessity when the author’s daughter did not
0 Comments
Translated by Alexandra Fleming — In 1959, the whole population of a mining village in Norrland, Sweden, disappeared. Only two people were left behind – the body of a woman stoned to death in the village square and a baby in the school classroom. No-one has been to Silvertjärn since and no explanation was ever
0 Comments
Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah for $2.99 Fun Home by Alison Bechdel for $2.99 The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho for $2.99 The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer for $2.99 Long Bright
0 Comments