Richard’s Recommendations
Death Valley
Curmudgeonly retired actor meets eager young detective – they’re the perfect crime-fighting duo, if they can only get along. Crime caper with Timothy Spall and Gwyneth Keyworth.
Department Q
A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh’s cold cases.
Home Town
Ben and Erin Napier help new people moving to their small town of Laurel, Mississippi, to find a house and renovate it into their dream home.
The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale
In this riveting true story, Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christie’s victims, the tabloid frenzy that their deaths inspired, and the truth about what happened inside the house.
Lucan
A murder that obsessed the nation, and a disappearance that’s mystified police for 50 years. Is the son of victim Sandra Rivett about to solve the case of the fugitive aristocrat?
Karla’s Choice: A John le Carre Novel by Nick Harkaway
A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carré’s most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway Set in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in the George Smiley saga, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Nick Harkaway’s Karla’s Choice is an extraordinary, thrilling return to…
