Crimes, capers and cracking reads
Selected by the Bookshop
With summer in full swing, here's a list of our booksellers favourite crime novels to get stuck into: page-turners that are also certain to be very good reads.
Recommended by Saff
A tale of misogyny, precarious work, and loneliness. I picked this up as a holiday read last year and was not disappointed. It combines deft political commentary with a snappy plot and complex characters who, at times, make you want to shout at the page. The novel begins with a woman on the edge, what follows is a story gruesome, poignant, and unerringly propulsive.
Recommended by John
I'm a huge fan of the tricksy locked-room mysteries of John Dickson Carr, and this is one of his very best; the rambunctious detective Dr. Gideon Fell investigates an impossible stabbing at the top of an impregnable tower. British Library Publishing are doing magnificently at getting Carr back into print; if you get addicted, which is all too easy, it's worth knowing that he also published under the not-very-opaque pseudonym Carter Dickson.
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