Andy Charman’s debut novel, Crow Court, is a carefully curated, episodic tale of how tragic crime is. It is not just a question of who to blame, but rather who ...
Urban Waite – author of the critically acclaimed thrillers The Terror of Living and The Carrion Birds – talks about his latest novel, Sometimes the Wolf. Continue Reading ...
As the Edinburgh Festival gets under way, our blogger listens to Ian Rankin talking about Scotland, his writing process, and Inspector John Rebus. Continue Reading Litro in Edinburgh: ...
Unreliable narrators, fractured storylines, subversion and dislocation; crime writer Nick Triplow deconstructs our Book Club pick, Russ Litten’s Swear Down. Continue Reading A Postmodern Triumph: Russ Litten’s Swear ...
Litro contributor Richard House tells us about his four-novel series The Kills, a political thriller and epic literary project that’s set to be one of the literary events of the ...
“Women with desire and devilry in their eyes. Detectives with pistols in their paws and not enough luck to fill a matchbox. Damp, deserted roadways. Hot-sheet motels. Women in peril, ...
Anyone who thinks that the crime novel is a boring, repetitive genre would do well to read Belinda Bauer’s Rubbernecker. Set in the coma ward of a Cardiff hospital, Rubbernecker ...
One of the lads I worked with in prison had LOYALTY ABOVE ALL LAWS tattooed down the inside of his arm and I became interested in the consequences of living ...
It’s London, 1850, and private detective Charles Maddox has just been given a new case. Sir Percy Shelley and his wife are being harassed by someone threatening to make public ...
I’ve got details in the sense that I can kind of see the novels in my head, but I don’t really write outlines down — I’m not very good at ...
This quarterly book club is at the heart of our brand-new membership platform, and grants our members exclusive access to the most exciting new titles. Four times a year, you ...
Robin Stevens, who finished a dissertation on crime fiction recently, went to a debate at Kings Place on Monday to listen to John Banville, Sophie Hannah, Peter James and Lee ...
