Michael Connolly is an American crime writer who lives in Los Angeles, where nearly all of his books are set. There are a fair few of them, too: 34 in...

The first book in the Inspector Morse series by Colin Dexter was Last Bus to Woodstock, published in 1975. The final one was The Remorseful Day, publi...

The title of Eimear McBride’s third novel is slightly misleading. Rather than Strange Hotel (the cover is shown on the home page), the noun shou...

This book may be the most inaptly named of the year. Serotonin is a chemical with a wide range of functions in the body; it is sometimes called the ha...

In his latest novel, the cover of which is shown on the home page, Ian McEwan enters the contemporary/future world of artificial intelligence by takin...

Tana French is best renowned for her Dublin murder squad mysteries. I can heartily recommend the most recent, the sixth in the series: The Trespasser....

The novel Night of Camp David by Fletcher Knebel was published in 1965. It was republished late last year. On the front cover there is a quote from th...

Published in 1999, Val McDermid’s A Place of Execution (the cover is shown on the home page) received widespread critical acclaim, in the Uni...

This is a clever book but not to the extent that it’s too clever by half. Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott (the jacket is shown on the ...