What Planet Are They On

Not all crime writers have their feet on the ground. Some are up amongst the stars or disappearing through wardrobes into other dimensions. But no matter how far they travel, and what new worlds they conquer, some things remain the same. Like murder.

In Ben Aaronovitch’s Stone and Sky, the tenth in his remarkable Rivers of London series, DS Peter Grant tackles myth and murder on holiday in Scotland. Sarah Pinborough always delivers the unexpected and that’s certainly the case in her spinetingling Gothic horror-crime cross, We Live Here Now. Adam Oyebanji bends genres and history as he weaves an extraordinary thriller about the Atlantic slave trade in Esperance. The Cure is worse than the disease in Eve Smith’s disturbing thriller about an injection that wards off ageing.

Doug Johnstone will chair.