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The Dark Heart of Florence by Tasha Alexander: Cover Reveal + Excerpt

By Crime HQ

October 16, 2020

Get an early look at the gorgeous cover of The Dark Heart of Florence (Minotaur Books, March 2021), by critically acclaimed author Tasha Alexander. Read on for an excerpt of the latest Lady Emily mystery that transports readers to the legendary city of Florence, where Lady Emily and Colin solve a murder with clues leading…

Book Review: The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne by Elsa Hart

By Janet Webb

August 5, 2020

The time is 1703, the dawn of a new century. Amateur botanist Lady Cecily Kay has traveled from Smyrna to London. Her diplomat husband encouraged her to leave Turkey; theirs is not an amicable marriage. Cecily has arranged to stay in London at the house of noted collector Sir Barnaby Mayne. Access to his research…

The Safe Place by Anna Downes: New Excerpt

By Anna Downes

May 21, 2020

Prologue When the car bypassed the main terminal building and pulled up next to a sign that said PRIVATE JET CENTER, Emily breathed in so fast she almost choked. “You’re kidding me,” she said to her driver (her very own driver!), who smiled and opened the door for her like she was Cinderella. A security…

Book Review: Betrayal in Time by Julie McElwain

By Doreen Sheridan

July 16, 2019

Betrayal in Time is the fourth book in Julie McElwain’s Kendra Donovan series. Donovan’s adventures in nineteenth-century England continue when she is called upon to investigate the murder of a spymaster. My only regret in picking up this novel is that I hadn’t been able to read the three others in the series first. And…

London’s Serial Killers: Why They Were Caught

By Sandie Jones

June 11, 2019

With centuries of history to dive into, the U.K. has borne some of the most notorious serial killers the world has ever seen. But it’s the streets of London that have seen the grisliest goings-on. From as far back as the early 1800s, the once poverty-stricken areas either side of the River Thames have witnessed…

Throw Me to the Wolves by Patrick McGuinness

Book Review: Throw Me to the Wolves by Patrick McGuinness

By Alyssa Gammello

April 30, 2019

In Patrick McGuinness’ Throw Me to the Wolves, a classic police procedural is turned upside-down when the investigating detective realizes that the man accused of murder is someone from his past.

The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear

Book Review: The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear

By Susan Amper

March 27, 2019

The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear is the 15th installment of the Maisie Dobbs series, and now Maisie must balance her dangerous new case while her own feelings of love and grief threaten to overwhelm her. Intrepid investigator Maisie Dobbs drives an ambulance during the London Blitz, investigates a sensitive case of murder, hopes to adopt an orphan,…

Ben Aaronovitch, author of Lies Sleeping

Q&A with Ben Aaronovitch, Author of Lies Sleeping

By John Valeri

November 20, 2018

Ben Aaronovitch is a HUGO Award-nominated author. He began his career as a screenwriter and contributed to the original two seasons of the television show, Doctor Who, among others. Aaronovitch later became a bookseller before returning to writing with his Sunday Times bestselling Rivers of London series of contemporary urban fantasy/crime fiction novels. He was born and…

Review: The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris

By Angie Barry

July 5, 2017

The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris is a darkly satirical look at the deep splits in modern communities, which is not so much a whodunnit as a blackly comic what-they-did-after-it satire that resonates in a timely way. Jason turned to walk away. As he did, a doctor came out of the next cubicle.…

Knife Crime and Fake News

By Charles Harris

June 29, 2017

At the start of my new novel, The Breaking of Liam Glass, a desperate young journalist named Jason pitches a story to a tabloid about a teenage footballer he came across who was stabbed and is in a coma. Unfortunately, the tabloid wants more of a celebrity hook to the story—a hook he doesn’t know if…

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