April 2008
Author
of the Month - Robert Barnard
Fresh
Blood - Nicola Upson
Reviews
C.J. Sansom - Revelation
Barry Eisler - Requiem for an Assassin
Harlan Coben - Hold Tight
Jo Nesbo - Nemesis
Ann Cleeves - White Nights
Lindsay Ashford - The Killer Inside
R.S. Downie - Ruso and the Demented Doctor
David Wishart - Illegally Dead
Jefferson Bass - Carved in Bone
Martin O'Brien - Jacquot and the Fifteen
Catherine Sampson - The Pool of Unease
Lee Child - Bad Luck and Trouble
March 2008
Author
of the Month - Mark Gimenez
Fresh
Blood - Tom Rob Smith
Reviews
Lee Child - Nothing to Lose
Laura Wilson - Stratton's War
Reginald Hill - A Cure for All Diseases
Marek Krajewski - Death in Breslau
Jack Ross - Requiem
Roberta Kray - The Lost
Mari Jungstedt - Unspoken
John Rickards - Burial Ground
M.C. Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death/Vicious Vet
Kathryn Fox - Skin and Bone
Ingrid Black - The Judas Heart
February 2008
Author
of the Month - Michael Robotham
Fresh
Blood - S.J. Bolton
Reviews
David Ellis - Eye of the Beholder
M.J. Rose - The Reincarnationist
Peter Temple - Black Tide
Simon Lewis - Bad Traffic
Qiu Xiaolong - A Case of Two Cities
Fred Vargas - This Night’s Foul Work
John Grisham - The Appeal
James Sallis - Cripple Creek
Andrea Camilleri - The Patience of the Spider
Graham Hurley - The Price of Darkness
Linda Fairstein - Killer Heat
James Patterson - 7th Heaven
Constance Briscoe - Beyond Ugly
Helen Black - Damaged Goods
John Matthews - Ascension Day
Jane Hill - The Murder Ballad
January 2008
Author
of the Month - David Hewson
Fresh
Blood - Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Reviews
Tess Gerritsen - The Bone Garden
Qiu Xiaolong - Red Mandarin Dress
Edward Wright - Damnation Falls
Linwood Barclay - No Time for Goodbye
Barbara Nadel - Pretty Dead Things
Susan Arnout Smith - The Timer Game
Armand Cabasson - The Officer’s Prey
Leif Davidsen - The Serbian Dane
ed. Maxim Jakubowski - Paris Noir
Peter Temple - Bad Debts
Karen Rose - Die For Me
December 2007
Author
of the Month - Donald Westlake
Fresh
Blood - P.D. Martin
Reviews
M. C. Beaton - Agatha Raisin and Kissing Christmas Goodbye
Susan Hill - The Man in the Picture
Thomas Perry - Silence
Jane Huxley - Summer Night, Winter Moon
Michael Pearce - A Dead Man in Tangier
Patricia Cornwell - Book of the Dead
Francis Durbridge - Send for Paul Temple
November 2007
Author
of the Month - James Twining
Fresh
Blood - Neil White
Reviews
John Hart - Down River
Joan Smith - What Will Survive
Priscilla Masters - Slipknot
Joseph Finder - Power Play
Miyuki Miyabe - The Devil’s Whisper
Faye Kellerman - The Burnt House
Michael Didbin - End Games
Qiu Xiaolong - When Red is Black
Robert Ellis - City of Fire
Ake Edwardson - Frozen Tracks
Rosemary Rowe - A Coin for the Ferryman
Ann Granger - Rattling the Bones
October 2007
Author
of the Month - Ian Rankin
Fresh
Blood - Adrian Hyland
Reviews
Robert Goddard - Name To A Face
Karin Slaughter - Skin Privilege
Kathy Reichs - Bones to Ashes
Val McDermid - Beneath The Bleeding
Daniel Silva - The Secret Servant
Arnaldur Indridason - The Draining Lake
Adrian Magson - No Tears for the Lost
Margaret Frazer - A Play of Isaac
Agatha Christie - Dead Man’s Folly (AUDIO BOOK)
John Hart - King of Lies
September 2007
Author
of the Month - Dreda Say Mitchell
Fresh
Blood - Chelsea Cain
Reviews
Aline Templeton - Lying Dead
Mark Billingham - Death Message
Jeffery Deaver - The Sleeping Doll
Michael Marshall - The Intruders
Martin Cruz Smith - Stalin's Ghost
Lee Martin - Gangster's Wives
Peter Robinson - Friend of the Devil
Tom Cain - The Accident Man
August 2007
Author
of the Month - Denise Mina
Fresh
Blood - Caro Ramsay
Classic
Crime - Derek Raymond
Reviews
Scott Frost - Run The Risk
David Baldacci - Simple Genius
Karin Fossum - Black Seconds
Pip Vaughan-Hughes - The Vault of Bones
Pauline Rowson - In For The Kill
Simon Kernick - Severed
July 2007
Author
of the Month - Sam Bourne
Fresh
Blood - Marshall Karp
Reviews
Cody McFayden - The Face of Death
Candace Robb - The Guilt of Innocents
Claude Izner - Murder on the Eiffel Tower
Louise Penny - Dead Cold
Andrew Gross - The Blue Zone
Laura Lippman - What The Dead Know
Martha Powers - Death Angel
Pat McIntosh - St Mungo’s Robin
Gordon Ferris - Truth Dare Kill
June 2007
Author
of the Month - Cathi Unsworth
Reviews
Michael Connelly - The Overlook
Robert Gregory Browne - Kiss Her Goodbye
Alafair Burke - Dead Connection
Michael Robotham - The Night Ferry
Paul Johnston - The Death List
Dean Koontz - The Good Guy
Jean-Francois Parot - The Châtelet Apprentice
Ken Bruen - Cross
May 2007
Author
of the Month - Ariana Franklin
Classic
Crime - Georgette Heyer
Reviews
Alex Gray - The Riverman
Marcus Sakey - The Blade Itself
Martin O'Brien - Jacquot and the Master
Thomas Perry - Nightlife
Harlan Coben - The Woods
Sam North - The Velvet Rooms
Andrew Nugent - Second Burial
Chris Mooney - The Missing
Jeff Abbott - Fear
April 2007
Author
of the Month - Natasha Mostert
Reviews
Chris Kuzneski - Sign of the Cross
Asa Larsson - The Savage Altar
Graeme Roe - Dangerous Outsider
Qiu Xiaolong - When Red is Black
Richard Montanari - Broken Angels
David Wishart - In At The Death
John Rickards - The Darkness Inside
David Lawrence - Down Into Darkness
Steve Mosby - The 50/50 Killer
Stephen White - Kill Me
Jesse Kellerman - Trouble
March 2007
Author
of the Month - Reginald Hill
Fresh
Blood - John Macken
Reviews
Deborah Crombie - Water Like A Stone
Reviews
Martin Langfield - The Malice Box
Brad Meltzer - The Book of Fate
Graham Hurley - One Under
Carmen Posadas - The Last Resort
Robert Crais - The Watchman
Robert Barnard - A Fall From Grace
Terri Parson - Blind Spot
Peter Temple - In the Evil Day
Aline Templeton - The Darkness and the Deep
ed. Scott Turow - The Best American Mystery Stories
February 2007
Author
of the Month - Natasha Cooper
Fresh
Blood - Cody McFadyen
Reviews
Lisa Gardner - Hide
Christopher Goffard - Snitch Jacket
Mark Gimenez - The Abduction
Lindsey Davis - Saturnalia
Faye and Jonathan Kellerman - Capital Crimes
Lesley Horton - The Hollow Core
Judith Cutler - Cold Pursuit
Daniel Silva - Prince of Fire
Tony Hillerman - The Shape Shifter
John Le Carre - The Mission Song
January 2007
Author
of the Month - Elizabeth George
Fresh
Blood - Gillian Flynn
Reviews
Fred Vargas - Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand
Dean Koontz - Brother Odd
Linda Fairstein - Bad Blood
Thomas Harris - Hannibal Rising
Tess Gerritsen - The Mephisto Club
Alexander McGregor - Lawless
Mari Jungstedt - Unseen
Lynda La Plante - The Red Dahlia
Carol Anne Davis - Shrouded
Jonathan Santlofer - The Death Artist
Jason Goodwin - The Janissary Tree
December 2006
Author
of the Month - Gilbert Adair
Fresh
Blood - Linda Regan
Classic
Crime - Dorothy L. Sayers
Reviews
Ruth Rendell - The Water’s Lovely
Mary and Carol Higgins Clark - Santa Cruise
M. C. Beaton - Agatha Raisin and Love, Lies and Liquor
Jean-Patrick Manchette - The Prone Gunman
Anne Perry - A Christmas Secret
Derek Wilson - Unquiet Spirit
Faye Kellerman - The Garden of Evil and other criminal delights.
November 2006
Author
of the Month - Martina Cole
Fresh
Blood - Matthew Klein
Reviews
Ian Rankin - The Naming of the Dead
James Herbert - The Secret of Crickley Hall
Michael Cox - The Meaning of Night
Stella Rimington - Secret Asset
Brian Freeman - Stripped
Laura Lippman - No Good Deeds
Henning Mankell - Depths
Janet Evanovich - Motor Mouth
Jonathon King - Eye of Vengeance
Otto Penzler (Ed) - Pulp Fiction: The Crimefighters
October 2006
Author
of the Month - Thomas H. Cook
Fresh
Blood - Stef Penney
Reviews
C.J. Sansom - Sovereign
James Sheehan - The Mayor of Lexington Avenue
Michael Connelly - Echo Park
P. J. Tracy - Snow Blind
Ruth Downie - Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls
Jonathan Kellerman - Gone
James Patterson - Cross
Judith Cutler - The Chinese Takeout
Katy Gardner - Hidden
Karin Alvtegen - Shame
Christian Jungerson - The Exception
September 2006
Author
of the Month - Dick Francis
Fresh
Blood - David Harrison
Classic
Crime - Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Reviews
Jo Nesbo - The Redbreast
Qui Xialong - A Loyal Character Dancer
Barbara Erskine - Daughters of Fire
James Patterson - Judge and Jury
Louis Bayard - The Pale Blue Eye
Scott Frost - Never Fear
Sarah Rayne - Spider Light
Pierre Magnan - Death in the Truffle Wood
Otto Penzler (ed) - Dangerous Women
August 2006
Author
of the Month - Arnaldur Indridason
Fresh
Blood - Andrew Nugent
Reviews
Jim Kelly - The Coldest Blood
Reviews
Kathleen McGowan - The Expected One
Barbara Nadel - After The Mourning
Jeffery Deaver - The Cold Moon
Susan Hill - Risk of Darkness
Pierre Magnan - The Messengers of Death
Peter James - Looking Good Dead
Chris Jordan - Taken
Matti Joensuu - The Priest of Evil
Ann Granger - A Rare Interest In Corpses
Edward Wright - Red Sky Lament
July 2006
Author
of the Month - Sally Spedding
Fresh
Blood - Andrew Pepper
Classic
Crime - Edgar Allan Poe
Reviews
Peter Temple - The Broken Shore
Dean Koontz - The Husband
Kathy Reichs - Break No Bones
Janet Evanovich - Twelve Sharp
Lindsay Ashford - Death Studies
Susanna Gregory - The Tarnished Chalice
Michael Robotham - The Drowning Man
Sue Grafton - S is for Silence
Jeff Abbott - Panic
Michael Jecks - A Friar’s Bloodfeud
June 2006
Author
of the Month - Peter Robinson
Fresh
Blood - Jesse Kellerman
Classic
Crime - David Goodis
Reviews
Patricia Cornwell - At Risk
Joseph Finder - Killer Instinct
Mark Billingham - Buried
Elizabeth Peters - Tomb of the Golden Bird
Val McDermid - Cleanskin
Robert Crais - The Two Minute Rule
Katherine John - The Corpse’s Tale
May 2006
Author
of the Month - James Patterson
Fresh
Blood - Patrick Quinlan
Reviews
Thomas H. Cook - Red Leaves
Elizabeth Rigby - The Hunting Season
Stephen Miller - A Game of Soldiers
Bernard Knight - The Elixir of Death
Lindsay Ashford - Strange Blood
Katherine John - By Any Name
Ake Edwardson - Never End
Anne Perry - Dark Assassin
Richard Kunzmann - Salamander Cotton
Michael Symmons Roberts - Patrick's Alphabet
April 2006
Author of the
Month - William Brodrick
Fresh Blood -
Simon Beckett
Classic
Crime - Raymond Chandler
Reviews
Chris Petit - The Passenger
Qiu Xiaolong - Death of a Red
Heroine
Francesca Weisman - The Shape
of a Stranger
Denise Hamilton - Savage Garden
Sara Paretsky - Fire Sale
Ann Cleeves - Raven Black
Ken Bruen - Priest
Patrick Redmond - All She Ever
Wanted
Stav Sherez - The Devil's Playground
March 2006
Author of the
Month - Joanna Hines
Fresh Blood -
Simon Beckett
Classic
Crime - Raymond Chandler
Reviews
Mark Gimenez – The Colour
of Law
Raymond Khoury – The Last
Templar
Laura Wilson – A Thousand
Lies
Richard Montanari - The Rosary
Girls
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
– The 5th Horseman
Dean Koontz - Forever Odd
Margaret Murphy – Now You
See Me
Martin O'Brien – Jacquot
and the Angel
February 2006
Author of the
Month - Tess Gerritsen
Fresh Blood -
Simon Beckett
Classic
Crime - Raymond Chandler
Reviews
C. J. Sansom - Winter In Madrid
Jan Costin Wagner - Ice Moon
Lisa Gardner - Gone
Barbara Nadel - Dance With Death
Linda Fairstein - Death Dance
Tony Hillerman - Skeleton Man
David Hosp - Dark Harbour
Peter James - Dead Simple
Paul Doherty - The Cup of Ghosts
Dean Koontz - Velocity
January 2006
Author of the
Month - Martyn Waites
Fresh Blood -
Nick Stone
Reviews
Graham Hurley - Blood and Honey
Fred Vargas – The Three Evangelists
Christopher Reich – The Patriots’
Club
December 2005
Authors of the
Month - Frances Fyfield & David Roberts
Fresh Blood -
Jo Nesbo
Reviews
Best British Mysteries 2006 –
Ed by Maxim Jakubowski
Anne Perry – A Christmas Guest
Jonathan Kellerman – Rage
Henning Mankell – The Man Who
Smiled
The Detection Collection –
Edited by Simon Brett
Michael Jecks - The Butcher of St
Peter’s
Lev Grossman – Codex
November 2005
Authors of the
Month - Michael Connelly & ‘Nicci French’
(Nicci Gerrard and Sean French)
Fresh Blood -
Louise Penny
Reviews
Judith Cutler - Life Sentence
Catherine Sampson – Out of
Mind
P. D. James – The Lighthouse
Peter Tremayne - Master of Souls
Laura Lipman – The Power of
Three
October 2005
Classic Crime
- Gladys Mitchell
Author of the
Month - Meg Gardiner
Fresh Blood
- Cathi Unsworth
Reviews
P. D. James – The Lighthouse
Peter Tremayne - Master of Souls
Laura Lipman – The Power of
Three
Agatha Christie – The Thirteen
Problems
Chris Haslam – Alligator Strip
Denise Hamilton – Last Lullaby
Ake Edwardson – Sun and Shadow
Daniel Silva - A Death in Vienna
Agatha Christie – The Moving
Finger
September 2005
Classic Crime
- Agatha Christie
Author of the
Month - Minette Walters
Reviews
Faye Kellerman – Straight into
Darkness
G. M. Ford – A Blind Eye
Kate Mosse - Labyrinth
Andy Oakes – Dragons Eye
Jack Kerley – The Death
Collectors
Stacy Horn - The Restless Sleep
Chris Simms - Killing the Beasts
Karin Slaughter – Faithless
August 2005
Classic Crime
- James M. Cain
Author of the
Month - Stella Duffy
Fresh Blood -
Alex Barclay
Reviews
Jeffrey Deaver – The Twelfth
Card
Boris Akunin - The Death of Achilles
Simon Kernick - A Good Day to Die
Adrian Mathews - The Apothecary’s
House
Elizabeth George - With No One as
Witness
Reginald Hill - Stranger House
Caleb Carr - Italian Secretary
Susan Hill - The Pure In Heart
Michael Finkel - True Story: Murder,
Memoir, Mea Culpa
Minette Walters - The Tinder Box
July 2005
Author of the
Month - John Sandford
Fresh Blood -
Catriona McPherson
Reviews
Lindsey Davis - See Delphi and Die
P J Tracy – Dead Run
Barbara Nadel - Last Rights
C.J.Sansom - Dark Fire
Michael Connolly – The Closers
Ann Granger - Mixing with Murder
Gene Kerrigan - Little Criminals
James Patterson - 4th of July
Martyn Waites - The White Room
Lawrence Block - All the Flowers
are Dying
June 2005
Author of the
Month - Mark Billingham
Classic Crime
- Margaret Millar
Fresh Blood -
Stuart MacBride
Reviews
Arnaldur Indridason – Silence
of the Grave
Sue Walker – The Reunion
John Connelly - Black Angel
David Lawrence - Cold Kill
James Siegel - Detour
Greg Iles - Blood Memory
Jon Fasman - The Geographers
Library
May 2005
Author of the
Month - Val McDermid
Reviews
Barbara Vine - The Minotaur
Harlan Coben - The Innocent
Ken Follett - Whiteout
Francesca Weisman - Nowhere’s
Child.
Michael Ridpath - On the Edge
Catherine Sampson - Falling
Off Air
March 2005
Author of the
Month - Victoria Blake
Fresh Blood
- Craig Russell
Classic Crime
- Celia Fremlin
Reviews
Last Witness - Jilianne Hoffman
Alone - Lisa Gardiner
The Broker - John Grisham
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