Read an extract from Where Would I Be Without You?

Sometimes, a second chance can come out of nowhere… download an extract from Guillaume Musso’s bestselling novel Where Would I be Without You? published in the UK in April.

Genre round-up: Crime fiction

January saw a whole slew of crime and thrillers from authors new and established, from Mary Higgins Clark to Peter Leonard, plus the televison tie-ins of Michael Dibdin’s Aurelio Zen mysteries.

Destination… Murder? Part Two

Faber Editor Katerine Armstrong has gone on sabbatical. As a crime fiction fan she’s decided to explore some of the crime fiction writers – and their characters – that she may encounter on her travels.

Well-read and now very well traveled, this second and final article features Katherine’s favourite authors from Australia and New Zealand…

Destination… Murder? Part One

Faber Editor Katerine Armstrong has gone on sabbatical. As a crime fiction fan she’s decided to explore some of the crime fiction writers – and their characters – that she may encounter on her travels.

This first article features Katherine’s favourite American authors…

Read a second extract from The Baker Street Phantom

Read on for our second exciting extract from Fabrice Bourland’s first fantasy crime novel…

Visit our sister website, Bookdagger, next week for a chance to win a copy of The Baker Street Phantom

The Booklist: Winter is here

A selection of titles to keep you warm in these cold times. Be warned though, some of these might chill you to your bones…

November crime round-up

A selection of the best in new crime fiction and non-fiction from the Bookhugger publishers for the eleventh month featuring new novels from new and established authors, and re-printed true-crime investigative classics.

My Most Exciting Debut of 2011

Simon & Schuster’s Francesca Main, Senior Commissioning Editor – Fiction, shares her excitement about Urban Waite’s first novel The Terror of Living

An interview with Jean Teulé

We talk to Jean Teulé about his forthcoming novel, Monsieur de Montespan. Look for a competition to win proof copies here on Bookhugger soon.

An extract from Monsieur de Montespan

Jean Teulé’s forthcoming novel tells the hilarious, bawdy and touching story of a good man who loved too well and dared challenge the absolute power of the Sun King himself.

Genre round-up: Crime

New novels from Lynda La Plante and John Rector, plus some Inspector Aurelio Zen classics that will soon be given a new life by the BBC, just some of this month’s titles in the crime round-up.

An interview with Jean-François Parot

An in-depth interview with the author of the best-selling Nicolas le Floch thrillers, the latest of which, The Saint-Florentin Murders is soon to be published.

Read an extract from The Saint-Florentin Murders by Jean-François Parot

The fifth exciting adventure for Nicolas Le Floch, to be published in October, has it all: serial crimes and a bizarre murder weapon, as well as debauchery, espionage, and the follies of a young court where ancient rivalries and grudges still linger. Read the prologue and first chapter exclusively here on Bookhugger…

September reading groups round-up

Looking for a new title for your bookgroup or reading circle? Look no further – here are three titles that have reading group resources available right here on Bookhugger.

Genre round-up: crime fiction

A selection of the best in new crime fiction, contemporary and historical, from the Bookhuger publishers for the month of August…

Read an extract from Beautiful Malice

So. Were you glad, deep down? Were you glad to be rid of her? Your perfect sister? Were you secretly glad when she was killed?

July crime round-up

Modern day Hollywood and Los Angeles, the desolation of Greenland in 1067, an England torn apart by conflict in 1326, London in 1903 and the gulags of Russia. This month’s releases takes the willing reader on sinister travels through time and place.

Read an extract from Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian

‘There’ says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, when she come up out of the water after her baptism. Just a few short hours later, Alice is dead, shot by her abusive husband who turned the gun on himself soon after…

Deceptions, by Rebecca Frayn

Rebecca Frayn explains the genesis of her novel Deceptions, a thriller about family deceit, in this exclusive piece for Bookhugger.

R. N. Morris on switching from thrillers to arias

R. N. Morris explains how he ended up as both a writer of historical crime novels – and the librettist for a new opera…

Siberian education, according to Nicolai Lilin

Nicolai Lilin was born in 1981 and grew up in the small republic of Transnistria which declared its independence from Moldova in 1990 but has never been recognised. In this video, Lilin tells us more about his experiences in Siberian Education, his memoir of growing up in a society of ‘honest criminals’.

Read the first chapter of Orange Prize-shortlisted Black Water Rising

Enjoy Chapter One of Orange Prize for Fiction-shortlisted thriller Black Water Rising by Attica Locke – big oil and its twin, corporate corruption, meet their match with attorney Jay Porter.