A Case of Matricide

A Case of MatricideWINNER, Ned Kelly Award, Best International Crime Fiction, 2025 The Booker nominated author of Case Study and His Bloody Project brings us a clever and intriguing mystery, set in a small French town and featuring the troubled Chief Inspector Georges Gorski. In the unremarkable French town of Saint Louis, a mysterious stranger stalks the streets; an elderly woman believes her son is planning to do away with her; a prominent manufacturer drops dead.

The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death

This collection isn't merely about aesthetics

in secularism

of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism

The Dark Knight Suite: Part 1

and the Anatomy of Intrigue

which anticipated the new wave by a year or so: the simple

A mesmerising episode from the universe of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust

was discovered lying on the floor of his Buick

depicted in over fifty extraordinary self-portraits

but my God what an eye

Ethel Cain winds her way through a dizzying attempt at escape from her suffocating upbringing only to find herself crushed within its jaws in the end