It’s a thrill to discover how Swanson braids the various books’ plots together as Malcolm grows ever more uneasy and the murderer ever bolder.
Finch’s plotting is excellent, his characters well developed, but it is his prose that truly shines.
There is a free-form stream-of-consciousness element to this first-person narration that is very appealing—world-weary yet cautiously optimistic.
It’s a mystery that will keep you up late at night, haunted by the events within its pages.
Engberg’s English language debut promises a gritty, unflinching procedural series, and will leave readers craving Kørner and Werner’s next adventure.
Unraveling at a breakneck pace and seemingly custom-built for a big-screen adventure, The Rabbit Hunter is a chase you’ll want to get in on.
Armstrong has created a unique milieu for setting her suspense novels, which is no easy task nowadays. Read one, and you will want to read the rest.
Rutledge is one of the most complicated and finely drawn characters in contemporary crime fiction.
First Cut is a fascinating, entertaining series kickoff, with a particularly kickass heroine.
Sakawa scams abound, overlaid with a witch doctor (or two) and a trio of likable, if occasionally gullible, protagonists. We will be seeing Emma Djan again.
Historical, atmospheric (in a frigid sort of way) and exceptionally well-written, The Body Outside the Kremlin is a first-rate debut.
A fabulous test of Kubu’s legendary deductive talents, Facets of Death is easily one of the best heist novels since Gerald Browne’s classic 11 Harrowhouse.
An English manor house becomes the scene of a locked-room murder mystery that rivals the best of Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell or P.D. James.
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