Some crimes are buried so carefully they seem, for years, to have vanished. But the past, as we all too well know, has a way of surfacing, just as it does here. Roy Grace reopens a cold case just as a painting purchased at a car boot sale is found to conceal a masterpiece worth killing for. Enzo Macleod races against a terminal diagnosis to crack a crime that has languished unsolved for 16 years. Karen Pirie traces a rooftop skeleton in Edinburgh back to the Balkan Wars and Ruth Galloway finds Bronze Age weapons and a fresh body rising from the same Norfolk beach. This is exceptional reading from four of crime fiction's finest.
Peter James, Picture You Dead - Roy Grace finds that the world of fine art is no safer than any Brighton back street.
Peter May, Blacklight Blue - Enzo Macleod is hunted as relentlessly as he hunts. May at his most tense and assured.
Val McDermid, Skeleton Road - Karen Pirie pursues a cold case from Scotland to Croatia, uncovering crimes that history tried to bury.
Elly Griffith, The Night Hawks - Ruth Galloway at her finest, where ancient Norfolk legend and modern murder prove impossible to separate.
