Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymous “Harry” Bosch and criminal defence attorney Mickey Haller. Connelly (Author Michael Connelly’s Biography) is the bestselling author of 38 novels and one work of non-fiction, with over 74 million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into 40 languages. In […]
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There are many ‘dubh lochs’ on the Isle of Lewis in The Outer Hebrides. The island is studded with lochs which are coloured dark by the underlying peat. One of the civil parishes on the island is even called Lochs. This book is a follow-up to The Lewis Trilogy by Peter May (Peter May author
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Ann Cleves (Ann Cleeves) has been delighting readers with her mystery crime fiction since 1986. She has given us the characters Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn. The author is in fine form with The Long Call (2019), and the summary is as follows: It’s North Devon where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and
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Our media, ‘legacy’ and contemporary, saturate us with crises: the cost of living crisis, the illegal migrant crisis, the Ukraine war crisis, the US tariff crisis, the epidemic of thieving crisis, the Scottish drug death crisis, the housing shortage crisis, the terrrorist threat crisis, the environmental damage crisis. Listen to all the dire warnings and
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Philip Miller (PHILIP MILLER | Writer and Poet (philipmillerbooks.com)) is a writer and poet living in Edinburgh. He was an award-winning arts journalist for 20 years, and his published novels include The Goldenacre (2022), All The Galaxies (2017) and The Blue Horse (2015). His poetry has been published in print and online, and he received a RL Stevenson Fellowship in 2019.
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Val McDermid (https://www.valmcdermid.com/) has established a loyal readership for her crime fiction over the last 31 years since the publication of her first novel in 1987. In a Radio 4 broadcast of 23 September 2018 (‘A Point of View‘ – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bkpszm) she argued that crime fiction is not predominantly about murder or the grisly details
Jane Harper (http://janeharper.com.au/About-Jane) is an Australian citizen of UK birth. Her 2017 novel The Dry won the Crime Writers’ Association Awards Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year. The summary is as follows. Melbourne cop Aaron Falk has reluctantly returned to Kiewarra, the remote Australian farming community he left as a teenager 20 years
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Karin Slaughter (http://www.karinslaughter.com/) has been thrilling her readers with grisly mystery crime since 2001 with her first novel Blindsighted . She is already the author of sixteen novels, her most recent being The Kept Woman, published in 2016. Having sold more than 35 million copies of her fiction in 36 languages, you may wish to check out whether you
Stuart MacBride (http://www.stuartmacbride.com/) was born in Dumbarton but grew up in Aberdeen. He is the author of several crime novels featuring DS Logan McRae. He has been shortlisted for the ‘Theakstons’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award’ twice. MacBride won the 2007 CWA Dagger in the Library, awarded for a body of work,
