And when the narrative stops on a dime after an ice-cold 97 pages, you’re left wanting more.
Tag: crime
Unlocking a riveting Japanese mystery: Masako Togawa’s The Master Key review
Themes of security, honour, obligation and voyeurism converge into something enticing and engaging under Togawa’s pen.
All hail the new King of New York: Don Winslow’s The Force is the crime novel of the year
Winslow is out there prowling the streets of New York poking his nose in, inhaling the stench, digesting the smoke and oxygen in his lungs and breathing them out as junkie poetry.
Probing Friedrich Durrenmatt’s nightmare detective novel Suspicion
Durrenmatt often turns the detective genre on its head. Sometimes the crimes just don’t get solved.
Your ticket to an unforgiving Australian outback: The Dry by Jane Harper
Kiewarra hasn’t seen a cloud for two years but it’s been drowning in sin for generations.
The mystery of the missing crime novel: Sinner Man by Lawrence Block
Half a century in the making, Sinner Man is one of crime fiction’s most exhilarating rediscoveries.
