Fielding's latest crime novel is Murder unde the Mistletoe.
At The Strand Magazine she tagged six books for a murder mystery tour of England, including:
THE CURATOR by M W CravenRead about the other entries on the list.
Craven’s Washington Poe series, set in Cumbria, in the north west of England, has the additional joy of one of the mostoriginal and engaging female sidekicks in Tilly Bradshaw. The books are a series and there are ongoing threads, but nothing that gets in the way of a great stand-alone crime novel.
The writing is pacy, the action non-stop and I chose this one because it has a winter setting in what is a stunning but always challenging landscape.
The Curator begins with the discovery of three pairs of fingers – one cut from the victims while alive, the other when dead. There’s a vile game afoot, with international connections. Nothing is as it seems. The killer is playing psychological mind games with police, but with each new twist the story goes to deeper until the truly shocking ending feels like a series of body blows.
--Marshal Zeringue