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An enigmatic anti-heroine investigates a series of macabre killings in 1930s London
Two private investigators are persuaded by a disturbed young man to look into a crime he thinks he saw as a child
An evocative homage to Raymond Chandler finds his tough hero showing skill and courage even in the autumn of his life
In this controversial Polish novel, an elderly lady attempts to solve the murders besieging her village
The novelist talks about a world vision shaped by a sense of Scottishness and the business of popular series fiction
An authoritative psychological thriller embellished with the author’s characteristic narrative twists
Borrowing its title from a Mick Jagger song, Memo from Turner is every bit as viscerally violent as that 1970 film
An entertaining history of financial crime that reveals why we’re still suckers for a scam
A theatrical murder is at the heart of this nostalgia-filled 1950s seaside detective romp
More a ‘why-dunnit’ than a whodunnit, the novel is dark, harrowing, horribly claustrophobic, but hard to put down
A sophisticated examination of western society’s attitudes to the collision of fundamentalist Islam and terrorism
An enjoyable historical crime novel that investigates the imperial legacy in India
Barry Forshaw selects his mid-year reads
An undercover policeman risks revealing his identity when a runaway teenager steals his wallet
A rich cast of characters and tense situations are marshalled with panache
A Mumbai detective and his baby elephant sidekick investigate the death of a wealthy American
A couple’s clandestine erotic strategy leads to disastrous consequences for both
A combustible cocktail of the erotic and the malign
An efficient exercise in Nordic noir
A Norwegian crime writer’s noirish retelling of ‘Macbeth’
A crime novel that climbs inside the mind of a psychopath
A murder mystery that brilliantly evokes the texture of life in medieval England
‘Groundhog Day’ meets Agatha Christie in this high-concept country-house whodunnit
The saturnine inspector intervenes in a colleague’s case in this newly translated novel
An effort to uncover the story behind a secret London murder trial
