Thanks to Readings Books for adding The Night Village to their list of the best crime books of 2021 – their resident crime reader and bookseller Fiona Hardy (who is also an award-winning author) wrote a wonderful review of The Night Village for Books & Publishing right before it came out, which got it off to an auspicious start.

If I lived closer I would drop in to buy a few books by way of thanks. One day.

Also on this list is Fromage from Fremantle Press, which I read recently and loved – if you are after a funny, feel-good cosy crime novel with lots of joyful cheese prose, I highly recommend it.