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16 authors pick the best crime novels of 2021 - Dead Good
WEBDec 3, 2021 · The best crime novels of 2021: Amy McCulloch, author of Breathless: In a year packed with brilliant thrilling and chilling reads (particularly in wintry settings – my favourite!), my top crime-thriller of 2021 had to be The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse. Dark, claustrophobic and intense, The Sanatorium took me straight to the heart of the Swiss ...
Gregg Hurwitz's Orphan X Books in Order | Series List - Dead Good
WEBJun 30, 2021 · 5. Into the Fire (2020) Evan Smoak lives by his own code. As a boy he was taken from a foster home to be raised and trained as an off-the-books government assassin codenamed Orphan X. Then he broke free to live in the shadows as the Nowhere Man, using his unique skills to help those in desperate need.
19 top crime novels set in England - Dead Good
WEBJul 29, 2019 · The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson – Brighton. Brighton Beach, 1993. Teenagers Nell and Jude find the body of a young woman and when no one comes to claim her, she becomes known as the Brighton Mermaid. Nell is still struggling to move on when, three weeks later, Jude disappears.
The Sunday Times 50 Best Crime and Thriller Books - Dead Good
WEBFeb 11, 2015 · The Sunday Times has pulled together the best 50 crime and thriller novels of the past five years, from 2010-2015. From Lee Child to Gillian Flynn, Gerald Seymour to C J Sansom, these are the books that have made our hearts race and our pulses jump. Split into the twenty-five best crime books and twenty-five best thrillers, the list below has ...
Alan Parks: my top five tartan noir novels - Dead Good
WEBJan 22, 2018 · You can’t beat Louise Welsh’s The Cutting Room and Denise Mina’s entire Garnethill trilogy. I’d add some of Liam McIlvanney’s – particularly The Quaker and The Heretic. Also, anything by Chris Brookmyre. crimeworm. From Black and Blue to Exile, Alan Parks, debut author of Bloody January, picks five of his favourite tartan noir novels.
17 top crime novels set in Scotland - Dead Good
WEBJul 29, 2024 · Five by Five by Claire Wilson. Five by Five by Claire Wilson. A gritty crime thriller from a major new talent in Scottish crime fiction, Five by Five is a hard-hitting debut that doesn’t pull any punches in depicting life behind bars. It follows Kennedy Allardyce, an intelligence analyst in a Scottish prison, and offers readers a vivid insight into the goings …
100 best crime books of all time, as chosen by our readers
WEBOct 16, 2020 · The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy. Los Angeles, 1947. The tortured body of a beautiful young woman is found; the newspapers call her ‘The Black Dahlia’. For two cops, what begins as an investigation becomes a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl’s twisted life.
25 of the best historical mysteries - Dead Good
WEBAug 12, 2024 · The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis. The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis. In Rome in AD 70, laid-back informer and imperial agent Marcus Didius Falco is on the hunt for the killer. Travelling to Britain, he catapults himself into a dangerous game involving stolen imperial ingots, a dark political plot and a senator’s daughter connected to the …
Lee Child's Jack Reacher Books in Order | Series List - Dead Good
WEBSep 28, 2023 · No Middle Name (2017) All Lee Child’s shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher in one volume. Read together, these twelve stories shed new light on Reacher’s past, illuminating how he grew up and developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world. Read an extract here.