Crime fiction
Have a crime-filled Christmas
Pity the poor novelist whom commercial pressures trap within a series, doomed with each volume to diminish the stock of…
The Red Road by Denise Mina- review
Denise Mina’s 11th crime novel, The Red Road (Orion, £12.99), is one of her best, which is saying a good…
Holy Orders, by Benjamin Black - review
It’s always a little disconcerting for the rest of us when literary novelists turn to crime. Have they become different…
Laidlaw by William McIlvanney - review
Laidlaw was first published in 1977, 36 years back from now, 38 on from The Big Sleep. Like Chandler’s classic…
