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CRASH LAND BY DOUG JOHNSTONE • (Faber & Faber) 3 November 2016 An iconic character through much Western fiction, but especially crime noir, is the “femme fatale”—the beautiful, mysterious, seductive woman who turns the hero’s life upside down. It’s not an archetype Doug Johnstone, exploring the edges of domestic noir, has used before, but his approach […]

BECK – THE SERIES, VOLUME 2 (Nordic Noir) Available now. “A person doesn’t have to be evil just because they do evil things.” It’s precisely the subtle philosophical maturity that exemplifies the measured, contained approach that Swedish detective drama Beck invariably displays. Packaged for the UK as the second volume of the Beck series, these […]

First published in Crime Scene #5. THE FJÄLLBACKA MURDERS (Arrow Films) Out Now Following her parents’ deaths in a car accident, author Erica Falck (Claudia Galli) and her policeman husband inherit the parental home in the Swedish coastal town of Fjällbacka, described by their lawyer as “Paradise on Earth” but – as this first series of […]

First published in Crime Scene #4 TIME OF TORMENT BY JOHN CONNOLLY (Hodder & Stoughton). Out Now Fourteen novels and one novella on, John Connolly’s supernaturally tinged private investigator Charlie Parker – forever helping lost souls at the risk of his own – this time comes up against the Cut, an isolated and inbred community […]

First published in Crime Scene #3. SILENT WITNESS (SERIES 19) (2entertain). 14 March 2016 It might come as a surprise to some that award-winning crime drama Silent Witness soon starts filming its 20th series, but this 19th run of 10 episodes – starring Emilia Fox, Richard Lintern and David Caves as a dedicated team of […]

First published in Crime Scene #2. A STUDY IN MURDER by ROBERT RYAN (Simon & Schuster) Out now Glance at any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes collections and you’ll see how the consulting detective didn’t take on cases, he had Adventures. So it’s rather fitting that Robert Ryan, pushing Doyle’s iconic characters into […]