20th February:Review The Hummingbird Saint - Hector MacDonald Ingrid Yornstrand wrestles with the genre-defying Hector MacDonald

20th February:Feature
Denise Mina on Resolution
Denise Mina on sexual slavery in Glasgow and her writing past

20th February:Interview
Lawrence Block - A Short Interview
Barry Forshaw catches up with one of the enduring forces in crime fiction

20th February:Review
Hello Bunny Alice - Laura Wilson
Russell James on a a tense and suspenseful thriller

20th February:Review
Aphrodite - Russell Andrews
Mark Campbell gives a qualified welcome to Russell Andrews' Aphrodite

20th February:Review
The Hummingbird Saint - Hector MacDonald
Ingrid Yornstrand wrestles with the genre-defying Hector MacDonald

6th January:Review
The Distant Echo - Val McDermid
a psychological thriller that has all the distinction of a serious piece of literature says Barry Forshaw

6th January:Feature
The Best Of British - Mark Campbell
Mark Campbell on Nine Key Britcrime Authors

6th January:Review
Bangkok 8 - John Burdett
Russell James on this mind-shifting narrative featuring a mixed-race Buddhist cop working in modern Bangkok

6th January:Review
A Meeting Of Minds - Clare Curzon
Jean Allen investigates this adroitly constructed puzzler.

15th December:Review
The White Lioness - Henning Mankell
Michael Carlson reviews the third novel in Mankell's Kurt Wallender series.

15th December:Review
The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin
What does one expect from Russian fiction? Existential gloom? Bitter political satire? Probably not tongue-in-cheek historical thrillers...Nick Rennison investigates

15th December:Review
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
Michael Carlson looks at Orion's latest edition of what he considers may be tbe greatest crime novel of all time

21st November:Review
Weaving Shadows - Margaret Murphy
A woman beaten to death with a hammer. A man shot in cold blood. A crooked cop taking backhanders - Judith Gray faces up to Margaret Murphy's latest offering.

21st November:Feature
Natasha Cooper: Writing Crime
Natasha Cooper on the peculiar business of writing - why do they do it???

21st November:Review
Gunman's Rhapsody - Robert B Parker
Michael Carlson examines Robert B Parker's take on Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the OK Corral.

21st November:Feature
Sue Grafton and the New Woman Detective
Susan Rowland analyses Sue Grafton's use of PI, Kinsey Millhone

21st November:Review
The Devil's Handshake - Murray Davies
Vic Buckner follows the efforts of a German detective to unmask the British assassin parachuted into wartime Germany.

21st November:Feature
Jason Starr on Hard Feelings
Jason Starr ranges widely on writing and his novel, Hard Feelings

8th September:Review
A Feast Of Carrion - Keith McCarthy
A whoudunit in the classic mould - Ingrid Yornstrand dissects the work.

8th September:Review
The Runner - Peter May
Detective Li Yan back in Beijing amid a welter of dying Olympic athletes

8th September:Review
Winter's End - John Rickards
A grim and compelling psychological thriller which marks Rickards out as a key new voice in crime thriller fiction...

21st August:Review
Back Story - Robert B Parker
One of the strongest Spenser novels in recent years - but is it one of the best? Michael Carlson debates.

21st August:Review
Samaritan - Richard Price
Richard Price using his unmatchable ear for street dialogue to humanise his ghetto world...

21st August:Review
Dissolution - C J Sansom
'A historical crime novel that redefines the genre' thinks Ingrid Yornstrand

14th August:Review
Blind To The Bones - Stephen Booth
A dark and powerful novel by a writer of great skill...

14th August:Book Review
Death's Jest Book - Reginald Hill
brilliantly written tour de force? Nick Rennison investigates...

14th August:Feature
Locating Sue Grafton - Gill Plain
Sue Grafton and the feminist text pinned down by Gill Plain

14th August:Book Review
Clean Cut - Theresa Monsour
'A bona fide page-turner.' thinks Mark Campbell