The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina Inspired by the real case of Alice Crimmins, this tells of a woman whose two children go missing from her apartment in Queens.ĭuring Australia’s worst drought in a century, three members of one family in a small country town are murdered, with the father believed to have killed his wife and son before committing suicide.Īdam Dalgliesh takes on a serial killer terrorising a remote Norfolk community.
In the third Jackson Brodie book, a man is released from prison 30 years after he butchered the mother and siblings of a six-year-old girl in the Devon countryside. When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson Writing under her pen name, Ruth Rendell tells of the discovery of a woman and child in the animal cemetery at Wyvis Hall, 10 years after a group of young people spent the summer there.
The first in the Paddy Meehan series sees the reporter looking into the disappearance of a child from his Glasgow home, with evidence pointing the police towards two young boys. The Booker-longlisted author of Snap follows it up with the tale of a medical student with Asperger’s who attempts to solve a murder. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian Val McDermidĪ teenage war orphan accuses two women of kidnap and abuse, but something about her story doesn’t add up. The wealthy Marjorie Malcolm-Scott trades suitcases, destinations and identities with orphan Shona McInnes, as children are evacuated from Edinburgh at the start of the second world war.ĭenise Mina, author of two books on our list, The Field of Blood and The End of the Wasp Season. Searching for Shona by Margaret Jean Anderson Then a police officer starts asking about the murder of a woman 14 months earlier …ĭI Judy Hill and DCI Lloyd investigate the murder of a 15-year-old girl on a patch of open parkland in the centre of town. When a young mother’s seven-year-old daughter disappears, she finds herself questioning everything in her life.
When Anna Howell discovers that a 1960s child murderess was the previous resident of her old cottage, her marriage, sanity and life come under threat.
When her husband and sister close ranks against her, she begins to suspect they are lying to her.Īlso published as In the Spider’s House. All were absolutely vital to my development as a psychological crime writer.”įollows a woman who loses her baby and whose father unexpectedly drowns. Hannah has chosen “amazing novels that your readers probably haven’t yet discovered.
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