Silvia Moreno-Garcia has the uncanny ability to jump effortlessly between genres. Gothic horror, fantasy adventure, historical fantasy or sci-fi, magic realism, vampire noir, crime noir, coming-of-…

Even though Sudanese-American writer Fatin Abbas’ debut novel was originally published in 2023, a new paperback edition was released in January of this year. Ghost Season is set in the early 2000s …

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Outstanding crime fiction from Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden longlisted for the 2026 Petrona Award. Twelve crime novels from Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have made the longlist for t…

Embargoed until 8am 27 August 2026 (UK time).   OUTSTANDING CRIME FICTION FROM FINLAND, ICELAND, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 PETRONA AWARD Twelve crime novels from Finland, Icel…

In two months’ time, an asteroid named Telo is due to hit Fukuoka, Japan, with a kinetic energy equivalent to 45 billion megatons of TNT. “It’s the end of the world as we know it,”‘ as Michael Stip…

A new name on the Nordic Noir horizon, arriving alongside a brand new publisher—a double treat for lovers of all things moody, cold, and murderous. Hopefully, this signals the beginning of many mor…

Penny Zang’s atmospheric and claustrophobic debut novel has it all: suspicious deaths, a fractured female friendship and a Sylvia Plath suicide club set in the angsty, grunge-driven 90s. So let’s d…

South Korean author Se-Ah Jang’s crime debut, A Twist of Fate, draws inspiration from classic gothic fiction. While utilising many of the genre’s tropes—family secrets, unexplained deaths, and a si…

Francis Harlan Fox is a popular literature teacher at the elite Langhorne Academy in New Jersey, beloved by scholars and admired by colleagues. Francis Harlan Fox is also a sociopath, paedophile an…

Zoë Apostolides’s debut novel, The Homecoming, is a gothic tale that masterfully blends a strong sense of place with a classic horror atmosphere. It follows Ellen, a ghostwriter sent to a remote ma…

Japanese puzzle mystery meets time-loop caper in Yasuhiko Nishizawa’s first novel translated into English. Japanese novels playing with the concept of time have been popular recently. Last year, we…

Olivia Dumont is a ghostwriter, but a public spat with another writer has left her career in ruins. Her luck changes when acclaimed horror author Vincent Taylor requests Olivia to ghostwrite his me…

Glasgow author Andrew Raymond is well-known for his political and spy thrillers, but The Bonnie Dead is his first venture into the crime genre – a police procedural set in his home city. You’ll fin…

Translated by Nicholas Glastonbury — It’s not often we come across Turkish crime fiction, much less examples influenced by Nabokov and Highsmith, but Yiğit Karaahmet has produced an original, atmos…

Translated by Quentin Bates— In Broken, the first instalment of a trilogy set in Iceland, Atli Jónasson introduces two new, flawed and multi-layered characters to the Nordic Noir landscape: Dóra an…

Renowned South African crime author Irma Venter plunges readers into the arid expanse of the Great Karoo where the little town of Carnavon harbours old grudges, secrets and an unsolved murder that …

White King concludes Spanish crime author Juan Gómez-Jurado’s the popular trilogy featuring Antonia Scott, which was adapted for television in Amazon’s Red Queen series last year. Is it a goodbye …

An isolated island, a lighthouse, and an unexplained death – what more could a crime fiction reader ask for? Perhaps some secrets or even pagan rituals? And surely, a threatening storm leaving ever…

Six months ago, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido were demoted from their posts as part of Cape Town’s elite crime-fighters, The Hawks, after an incident with the corrupt State Security A…

Brooklyn native William Boyle sets his latest novel in Gravesend, a changing part of the New York borough. It has the hallmarks of a classic, reminiscent of great American novels like Dennis Lehane…

Jacqueline Faber’s debut novel is a dark academic thriller perfect for readers who enjoyed Joanne Harris’s St Oswald trilogy or Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House and Hellbent. The story centers around th…

Popular Swedish novelist, Arne Dahl, is back with a new series revolving around Detective Eva Nyman and a team of investigators known as the NOVA squad. The story kicks off with seemingly accidenta…

the setup… It’s the week of Christmas but the holiday season isn’t any reason for Paige, a professional assassin, to slack off on the job. But when she enters the home of her target, she’s surprise…

Sarah Sultoon - Blackwater (blog tour) Published by Orenda Books, paperback £9.99, also available in ebook. I received a proof copy of the novel from the publisher for review purposes. Many thanks to Anne Cater at Random Things Tours for inviting me to take part in the blog tour. You can buy the book direct from the publisher here: …

Helene Flood’s new novel, translated by Alison McCullough from Norwegian, centers on Evy, a woman in her early sixties whose husband, Erling, unexpectedly dies while cycling. On the surface, …

Translated from the Japanese by Emily Balistrieri—Imagine you stumble upon a time machine and can travel to any place and time in the past. What would you do? Go back to change history, meet your g…

Subterfuge, deep fakes, grisly deaths and a family curse. Californian writer Sara Sligar whiplashes between Gothic family drama and outrageous high-tech caper in Vantage Point, her latest thriller …

Body horror has recently regained popularity, particularly in literature. However, this form of horror has existed for much longer than we realise. One of the first examples is Mary Shelley’s…

Amsterdam. The city of red lights, weed, canals and stroopwafels. The perfect setting for Ruth Kelly’s latest destination thriller and the new home of her main character, Becca. Becca and Nath…

Grady Hendrix has carved a unique niche for himself in the horror genre with works like The Final Girl Support Group and My Best Friend’s Exorcism. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls has no knife-w…

Broken (Reykjavík Outliers Book 1) eBook : Jónasson, Jón Atli, Bates, Quentin: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Ørjan Karlsson’s first novel in the Arctic Murders series takes us all the way to Bodø and Røst, on the Lofoten archipelago in northwest Norway. The most prevalent form of crime here, just inside t…

Three years have passed since Investigator Augusta (Gus) Monet’s partner, Howard Baylis, vanished during a family camping trip in Southern Ontario. Gus and Bly, her 13-year-old daughter, have searc…

Eve Shaw, a valuer at an auction house, is defined by a twenty-three-year-old tragedy. At the age of four, on the day of her sister Bella’s birthday party, Eve left the garden gate open. Bella wand…

Outstanding crime fiction – twelve crime novels from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have made the longlist for the 2025 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. T…

Twelve crime novels from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have made the longlist for the 2025 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.They are:Samuel Bjørk – Dead I…

Few things have changed in the Stella-verse. She still loves her whiskey and espresso. She still has a razor-sharp tongue and a zero tolerance for bullshit. She still despises the “boys in black.” …

The Women’s Prize for Fiction is underpinned by its mission to change the world through books by women, opening up pathways into reading and writing, and encouraging storytelling and a love of books f...