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This impressive debut novel is a timely addition to the canon of international thrillers
A well-heeled mother’s perfect family life is torn apart when her daughter is kidnapped
This debut novel by a young British writer has set the bar high for historical crime fiction in 2019
Two cops investigate the disappearance of a young woman in the secluded Spanish town that bears her name
The author cannily subverts the clichés of the legal genre in his all-too-topical narrative
Barry Forshaw selects his must-read titles
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
