Crime Novels

Why Are There So Many Crime Thrillers With 'Girl' in the Title? Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, Luckiest Girl Alive, Final Girls... There's no shortage of crime novels with 'girl' in the title since the huge success of Gillian Flynn's…

Sarah Pinborough's 13 minutes; A book that makes me glad I was a complete dork in school. What can I say in this review without giving away all the twists and turns of Sarah Pinborough’s YA thriller, 13 Minutes. Its good, really good. Go…

The Godfather is full of shit. And piss. And semen, lots and lots of snot, bits of brain and skull, and, of course, plenty of blood. In the original Godfather novel, Mario Puzo has a strange need to follow nearly every moment of high drama…

Reviewers describe them as 'hot' and/or 'cool'. The dialogue is 'stunning' and 'all-found.' The plots induce 'page-turning.' No reviewer describes the crime novels of Elmore Leonard as moral. Why the reluctance to view the work in this…