Fiona Hardy
Fiona Hardy is a bookseller at Readings Doncaster and Readings Carlton. She is also the author of books for children including How to Make a Movie in Twelve Days and How to Tackle Your Dreams. She is the former crime fiction columnist for Readings Monthly.
Review — 26 May 2016
Sunset City by Melissa Ginsburg
Short and anything but sweet, Sunset City paints a neon-soaked picture of Houston’s grimiest places, visited by a drunk and bereaved Charlotte Ford, trying to find solace after the death…
Blog post — 11 May 2016
Best new crime reads in May
CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH
The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown by Vaseem Khan
Inspector Ashwin Chopra (retired) has a perplexing task in front of him indeed…
Blog post — 13 Apr 2016
Best new crime reads in April
CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH
All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
Over the few days I read this book, I wouldn’t steal small moments to read a page…
Review — 23 Sep 2012
The Twelve by Justin Cronin
In Justin Cronin’s The Passage, a serum derived to save lives was tested on the 12 most reprehensible members of society, but its narrow success led to something much…
Review — 25 Apr 2016
The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown by Vaseem Khan
Inspector Ashwin Chopra (retired) has a perplexing task in front of him indeed after taking his wife to Mumbai’s Prince of Wales Museum to see England’s crown jewels, only to…
Blog post — 10 Mar 2016
Best new crime fiction in March
CRIME FICTION OF THE MONTH:
All These Perfect Strangers by Aoife Clifford
Pen Sheppard is listless in her mother’s country home, lost again in the world of her childhood –…
Review — 25 Apr 2016
The Poison Artist by Jonathan Moore
In a San Franciscan hotel, Caleb Maddox cleans the cut on his forehead. His girlfriend threw a crystal tumbler at his head, and it didn’t miss. It’s all he can…
Review — 29 Feb 2016
All These Perfect Strangers by Aoife Clifford
Pen Sheppard is listless in her mother’s country home, lost again in the world of her childhood – her mother’s bad boyfriends, a town full of fakery, gossip as currency…
Blog post — 3 Feb 2016
Best new crime books in February
NEW CRIME FICTION
Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty
The fifth book in the Sean Duffy trilogy proves yet again that we should be grateful that McKinty went into literature and…
Review — 26 Oct 2014
A Murder Unmentioned by Sulari Gentill
There is something so completely delicious about Rowland Sinclair and his louche band of comrades, the rapscallion Australian heroes of Sulari Gentill’s 1930s-set series. I could eat them all up…