Gary Phillips is a Los Angeles writer in the tradition of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley: crime fiction grounded in the specific social geography of Black LA, attentive to the history that shaped the city, and populated with characters who navigate that history with intelligence and without sentimentality. Ash Dark as Night, published by Soho…
Stuart Neville’s Blood Like Mine, published by Soho Crime in 2024, marks the Northern Irish writer’s return to the dark, morally complex territory where he does his best work. This is a standalone novel rather than an entry in one of his series, and the freedom of that choice shows: Neville builds a premise of…
Camilla Trinchieri’s The Road to Murder, published by Soho Crime in 2024, is the fourth entry in her Tuscan Mystery series featuring Nico Doyle, a retired New York homicide detective who relocated to the small Chianti wine town of Gravigna after the death of his wife. The series has built a devoted readership for its…
Timothy Hallinan’s Fools’ River, published by Soho Crime in 2017, is the fifth entry in his Poke Rafferty series, which follows an American travel writer living in Bangkok with his Thai wife Rose and their adopted street child Miaow. The series has built a deserved reputation for combining genuine thriller mechanics with an unusually thoughtful…
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