Limitless Obsession, Self-Delusion and Greed The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith introduces her famous antihero, Tom Ripley. He will continue his insidious tramp across Europe in four more novels -- The Ripliad. Tom Ripley is possibly the most profoundly unpleasant character you will ever encounter. Get a Copy ★★★ Synopsis Thomas Ripley is a charming, intelligent and well-educated failure. He scratches a livelihood in 1950s New York by defrauding taxpayers, sponging off his friends and living in somebody else's flat. Ripley is a man with one eye looking over his shoulder while the other is looking for a sucker. Events take a turn for the better when he meets Herbert Greenleaf, the wealthy father … [Read more...] about The Talented Mr Ripley
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Six Four
Realpolitik in the Japanese Police Force Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama recounts the story of a kidnapping and murder. The New York Times Book Review called it one of the best books of 2017. Yokoyama provides a damning insight into the bureaucracy of the Japanese Police Force. Get a Copy ★★★ Synopsis It was January 1989 (the sixty-fourth and last year of the rule of the Showa Emperor). Someone had kidnapped the seven-year-old daughter of a provincial Japanese pickle factory owner. Three days after paying the ransom, the police found her dead in the trunk of a car. Someone had bound her hands behind her back with a washing line, and tape covered her mouth and eyes. The Japanese police never found the kidnapper. … [Read more...] about Six Four
Dead Souls
The Sins of The Parents Curse the Children Dead Souls by Ian Rankin was the winner of the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 2005, six years after it was published in the U.K. Detective Inspector John Rebus ties together the suicide of one of his colleagues, an investigation into a paedophile ring, the release of a convicted killer and the disappearance of a former girlfriend's son in a literary slice of tartan noir. Get a Copy ★★★★ Synopsis Carry Oakes is a nasty character. Convicted in the U.S. of multiple charges of murder, the Americans have released him on a technicality after serving fifteen years of a life sentence and then deported him back to his home town of Edinburgh, where he has scores … [Read more...] about Dead Souls
We Know You Remember
Tragic Injustice in Small-Town Sweden We Know You Remember by Tove Alsterdal won the Glasnyckeln or Glass Key award for the best Scandinavian novel of 2021. The award is given jointly by the Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish Crime Writers' Associations. A tragic tale of lost youth, blame and remorse in small-town Sweden. Get a Copy ★★★★★ Synopsis One evening, whilst driving through picturesque Ådalen in Northern Sweden, Olof Hagström makes an impulsive decision. He visits his family home in a small town he hasn't seen in twenty years. When he arrives, he finds his estranged father lying dead in a bath of cold water. Police investigator Eira Sjödin has lived in Ådalen for most of her life. … [Read more...] about We Know You Remember
Troubled Blood
Plenty of Plot, People and Pages Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith is the fifth in the Cormoran Strike series. It won the book of the year in the British Book award, and the CWA shortlisted it for their prestigious Steel and Gold Dagger Awards for best thriller and novel, respectively. Perfectly plotted with a clever ending, but it took a long time to get there. Get a Copy ★★★ Synopsis One rainy night in the 1970s, Dr Margot Bamborough walked out of her surgery to meet a friend in a pub. She didn’t arrive, and nobody ever saw her again. Forty years later, Bamborough’s daughter seeks the help of Private Detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott in a last-ditch attempt to discover what … [Read more...] about Troubled Blood
The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
A "Detective Story With a Difference" or Too Clever for Its Own Good? The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor by Cameron McCabe is a crime fiction cult novel and a critic's dream. Get a Copy ★ Synopsis Cameron McCabe is an editor at a 1930s motion picture studio. It was long before the digital era, so McCabe physically cuts celluloid and sticks it back together, making sense of yards and yards of film. Bloom — his boss — enters the editing suite and tells him to edit Estella Lamare out of their latest film. No easy feat in a movie about a girl meets boy meets girl love triangle, but McCabe dutifully starts the task of cutting the starlet out of the film. The following morning Lamare is … [Read more...] about The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
Dirty War
Frivolous, Fanciful, Far-Fetched and Phoney; but Fun Dirty War by Dominique Sylvain is one of three Lola and Ingrid novels available in English. The French literary magazine, Lire proclaimed Dirty War the best crime novel of 2011. It is a light-hearted romp through the back streets of Paris as a pair of unlikely investigators race against the police to find a murderer. Get a Copy ★★★ Synopsis Commandant Sacha Duguin of the Brigade Criminelle is called to a murder in a suburb of Paris. The victim, Florian Vidal, is a young lawyer and protégée of “Mr Africa”, a power broker in the Franco-African arms trade. Somebody had placed a tire around M. Vidal’s neck, filled it with petrol and then set light to it. To … [Read more...] about Dirty War
You
Savage, Bleak, but Elegantly Phrased, Brutality You by Zoran Drvenkar is the second of his thrillers to be translated into English. A surreal murderous romp across northern Europe as “you” slaughter the innocent and guilty alike. How does it feel to be a dead man sitting in a freezer? Taja wedges two packs of sirloin between your shoulder and the wall. That’s better, even though you’re leaning slightly backward and looking up. Taja tries to free the remote control from your hand. Nothing to be done, you won’t let go of it. She bends down to you in the freezer, strokes your head, and promises she’ll be back soon. “I’ll be back soon.” There’s a whup. It’s dark. You’re sitting in the cold. Get a … [Read more...] about You
The Chalk Pit
Character-Driven Intrigue and Subterfuge The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths is the ninth in her Dr Ruth Galloway series. A light and easy read, packed with real characters, subtle humour, an entertaining plot and some truly dastardly behaviour. A great stand-alone novel and perfect if you enjoy reading a series and watching the characters' backstories develop. Get a Copy ★★★★ Synopsis After a surveyor investigates the groundworks of a subterranean restaurant in Norwich, building work grinds to a halt. He finds a series of old chalk passageways and a selection of human bones, so the police call local archaeologist Ruth Galloway to investigate. The bones aren't as old as the developer hoped. They also look as if … [Read more...] about The Chalk Pit
Chris Whitaker
Recommended Reading Three of Chris Whitaker's books to try: Get a Copy We Begin at the End: Whitaker's third novel won; the C.W.A. Gold Dagger, Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and the Ned Kelly Best International Crime Fiction Award. (Review) ★★★★★ Get a Copy All the Wicked Girls: Young women are disappearing in Grace, a bleak, bigoted, Alabama bible belt town, and all the police have to go on are the outbursts of the local preacher. (Notes) ★★★★ Get a Copy Tall Oaks: Whitaker‘s first novel. It is a Twin Peaksesque mixture of mystery and bizarre comedy and won him the ‘First Blood Dagger’ for the best crime novel by a first-time author. (Notes) Image … [Read more...] about Chris Whitaker
Martin Cruz Smith
Recommended Reading Three of Martin Cruz Smith's books to try: Get a Copy Gorky Park: The epic crime novel that put Martin Cruz Smith on the map. It was one of seven novels nominated by the C.W.A. for its Dagger of Daggers or “best of the best” award.(Review) ★★★★★ Get a Copy Nightwing: The first book published under the pseudonym Cruz Smith was nominated for an Edgar and earned a significant fee when Hollywood bought the film rights. (Notes) ★★★★ Get a Copy Tokyo Station: Published in the U.S. under the title December 6 — the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbour — Cruz Smith explores the Japanese aversion to “loss of face”. (Notes) ★★★ Image by Mark … [Read more...] about Martin Cruz Smith
The Man Who Was Thursday
Notes In The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, a secret policeman investigates anarchists, and what starts as a thriller becomes a surreal novel. Get a Copy Publisher's Synopsis In a colorful neighborhood of West London, two poets are at each other’s throats. Gregory is an anarchist who longs to upend civilization with the power of his words, while Syme is a man of reason, convinced his opponent’s beliefs are nothing but a fashionable pose. To prove his seriousness, Gregory introduces Syme to the central council of European radicals, where the newcomer is given the codename “Thursday.” Though none will admit it, every man in the council is a liar—and each is deadly in his own way. Gregory has no inkling … [Read more...] about The Man Who Was Thursday