Articles Reviewing Crime Fiction
Fatal Isolation: The Haunting Landscapes of Nordic Noir – Reviews of: Agnes Ravatn’s The Bird Tribunal, Ragnar Jonasson’s Snowblind, Yrsa Sigurdardottir’s Why Did You Lie?, and Antti Tuomainen’s Dark As My Heart
So many different ways of disappearing: five of the best missing person novels – Reviews of Megan Miranda’s All the Missing Girls, Lisa Jewell’s I Found You, David Swinson’s The Second Girl, Lisa Ballantyne’s Redemption Road, and Rachel Abbott’s Stranger Child.
Listening to the Ghosts – Reviews of: Johan Theorin, The Darkest Room and The Voices Beyond; Yrsa Sigurdadottir, I Remember You and The Silence of the Sea; and Mark Edwards, Follow You Home
The Man of the Family – Reviews of: Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau; Rebecca Whitney, The Liar’s Chair, and Laura Lippman, After I’m Gone
Fevered Adolescence – Reviews of: Megan Abbott, The Fever and Tana French, The Secret Place
Out of the Past – Reviews of: Harriet Lane, Her, Amanda Jennings, The Judas Scar, and Daniel Woodrell, The Maid’s Version
The Secrets of Houses – Reviews of: Christobel Kent, The Crooked House; D.D. Johnston, The Secret Baby Room; Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train; and Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary
Broken Societies – Reviews of: Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters; Lynn Kostoff, Words to Die For; and Paul Johnston, The Black List
“Ways to make a fast buck” – Reviews of: Lynn Kostoff’s Late Rain and Charlie Stella’s Johnny Porno
“Dreaming their big dreams”: the American Nightmares of Megan Abbott and Vicki Hendricks
“The terror of the truth”: the Gothic Noir of Cathi Unsworth and Martyn Waites