Val McDermid is known for creating gripping crime fiction filled with complex investigations, atmospheric Scottish settings and characters who stay with readers long after they’ve finished the book. Her Karen Pirie series is no different, following a determined cold-case detective as she investigates crimes that have remained unsolved for years, and sometimes decades.  Who Is…

Mick Herron has put together one of the most entertaining and dysfunctional teams in modern spy fiction. The Slough House series is about disgraced spies who are sent to a rundown intelligence office and given boring tasks, with the hope that they will quit on their own. Their boss, Jackson Lamb, is rude, messy, and…