Five great books to keep an eye out for this summer...
Usually, if you’re anything like me, you’d be gathering a collection of books by now to take with you on your holidays this summer.
However if, like me, you’re not going anywhere due to the current conditions you may find more time on your hands. There’s never been a better time to read a book, right?
Have a look at these five great books. Some are brand new, others are crime classics.
LAPD detective Harry Bosch shoots and kills Norman Church – the ‘Dollmaker’ – the police are convinced it marked the end of the search for one of the city’s most bizarre serial killers.
But four years later, Norman Church’s widow is taking Bosch to court, accusing him of killing the wrong man. This is an early Bosch book but one of my favourites.
Dead of Night
by Robert McNeill
A college lecturer is killed and dumped in the Union Canal. When DI Jack Knox investigates his past, he discovers a long list of old flames. Quite the lothario, the victim left several pining women and jealous husbands in his wake.
This is the third book in the Edinburgh series but can be read as a standalone.
The Troubled Man
by Henning Mankell
A classic Wallander mystery. Kurt is drawn into a cold case or Cold War espionage alongside the disappearance of his daughter’s father in-law.
Old secrets die hard in this atmospheric thriller.
by Simon McCleave
The Snowdonia Killings is the debut book in the DI Ruth Hunter Crime Thriller series and set against the majestic backdrop of Snowdonia, a timeless land of Arthurian legend, folklore and myth.
Recently this book was the highest selling UK crime fiction book in the US Amazon store.
by Ian Rankin
The very first John Rebus novel that has to date spawned twenty plus books in the series.
Two girls have been murdered, a third is missing and Rebus is battling his own demons as his life spirals out of control.