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P.M. Newton’s BEAMS FALLING
Ex-cop P.M. Newton burst onto the Australian crime writing scene four years ago with her impressive debut The Old School. Newton’s distinctive style and experience brought a point of view sadly missing...
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Laura Lippman’s AFTER I’M GONE
Laura Lippman delivers another absorbing thriller that sucks you in with vivid characters and great plotting. Inspired by a true story of a Baltimore mobster who went missing in the 1970s while under...
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5Q Interview with P.M. Newton, author of Beams Falling
P.M. Newton worked as a cop in NSW for 13 years. In 2010 she published her first novel, The Old School, set in Sydney in the early 1990s featuring Detective Nhu ‘Ned’ Kelly. The follow up, Beams...
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Nic Pizzolatto’s GALVESTON
I have been completely and utterly addicted to (and obsessed by) True Detective so when I found out the show’s creator and writer had written a crime novel I had to read it. And what a cracking book it...
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Elmore Leonard’s RIDING THE RAP
With news that there will be only one more season of Justified next year I thought it was time to complete my Raylan Givens reading. I’ve read the Raylan Givens books completely out-of-order. I started...
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Jesse Ball’s SILENCE ONCE BEGUN
This is one of those great novels that blends up truth and imagination so well that the lines between fact and fiction are so blurred you don’t even know where to begin trying to unravel it. It also...
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Dennis Tafoya’s THE POOR BOY’S GAME
Dennis Tafoya is one the best kept secrets in crime fiction. Which is a shame because he deserves to be heralded in the same breath as George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane. And his new novel only...
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Stephen Orr’s ONE BOY MISSING
This is one of the best crime books I have read in a while. Totally absorbing, emotionally gripping it is one of those books that sinks its teeth into you and doesn’t let go. Set in the South...
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Harry Brandt’s THE WHITES
It has been seven years since Richard Price last published a novel and it has been worth the wait. Writing under the transparent pseudonym Harry Brandt, Richard Price again demonstrates he truly is a...
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Jill Leovy’s GHETTOSIDE
True crime books get a bad rap, usually deservedly so. They are often sensationally or salacious written, pandering to a voyeuristic nature that plays up the monster angle of those who have perpetuated...
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