Want you dead – Peter James
I’ve been looking forward to this: the moody shots of a pier in the half-light, the dark shadows lurking around the fairground… It’s got to be the cover of the newest book to feature Brighton’s DSI Roy Grace. Want You Dead by Peter James is the tenth book in this series and it’s out just ...
Interview with Khaled Talib (author of Smokescreen)
Today we have the pleasure to interview Khaled Talib, author of Smokescreen. Q: Hi Khaled, welcome to Thrillerbooksjournal.com. Our first question is very easy: who is Khaled Talib as a person and as a writer? A: Hi Giuseppe, thank you for hosting me… it’s a great pleasure to be here. Well, I was born in ...
The Skin Collector – Jeffery Deaver
I’m not sure if I’m allowed to begin a post with a woohoo, but I’m going to do it anyway. Woohoo! If The Skin Collector by Jeffery Deaver sounds a bit like a long-awaited follow-up to The Bone Collector, well that’s because that’s exactly what it is. We now live in a world where tattoos ...
A Dark and Twisted Tide – Sharon Bolton
Like all the very best trilogies, the Lacey Flint Trilogy is now up to part four, with A Dark and Twisted Tide by Sharon (formerly SJ) Bolton. Former detective Lacey Flint left CID for a safer, quieter life with the river police – or that’s what she thought. She moves into a houseboat on a quiet Thames ...
Wolf – Mo Hayder
Wolf is Mo Hayder’s tenth novel, and like its predecessors, it’s most definitely not for the faint-hearted. An author who prides herself on her honesty, Mo doesn’t gloss or steer our emotional reactions to events; she simply describes them in chilling and visceral detail. Her debut, Birdman, was described by The Guardian as a ‘first-class ...
Death on a Galician shore – Domingo Villar
I have already visited Spain in the course of my crime fiction ‘world tour’, and thoroughly enjoyed authors as different as Manuel Vazquez Montalban and Alicia Gimenez Bartlett. Yet I couldn’t resist the temptation to add Domingo Villar to my collection, for three reasons. Firstly because he writes in gallego (Galician), a hybrid language which ...
A Lovely Way to Burn – Louise Welsh
Yay! The start of a brand new trilogy. We thriller fans are serial readers: we have our signatures, our readerly modus operandi and we indulge ourselves for as long as we can get away with. The start of a trilogy always gets us excited. A Lovely Way to Burn by Louise Welsh is the first ...
Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder – Shamini Flint
Around the world with crime fiction: my ‘tour’ aimed at reading crime novels from authors from as many different countries as possible – it’s now 21 countries… about 180 still to explore for crimes and criminals – has brought me to Malaysia, the birthplace of writer Shamini Flint. She enjoyed a successful legal career and ...
