The latest addition to my website is Jonathan Coe‘s The Proof of My Innocence.A blogger investigating right-wing plotting attends a right-wing conference the week LizTruss is appointed British Prime Minister and is brutally murdered at the conference. His adopted daughter and the daughter of one of his friends investigate and uncover dirty right-wing dealings, a … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Pat Gray‘s The Redemption Cut. In one respect this is your standard detective story – maverick cop ignores his bosses, the rules and “modern policing techniques” to solve the crime. However, it is set in Belfast in 1976 during The Troubles in Northern Ireland and the cop, McCann, … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Javier Cercas‘Terra Alta (Even the Darkest Night). Cercas has now turned to crime novels – two more in this series have been published in Spanish. We are following a Spanish police officer – Melchor Marín – who had been a drug dealer for which he was sent to … Read more