Books by Simon Van Der Velde
The Silent Brother
by Simon Van Der Velde
☆ Shortlisted for the 2023 CWA Gold Dagger
The Silent Brother by Simon van der Velde is a gritty novel set in Newcastle, based on the author's own experience of working there as a lawyer. It's a sad story about alcoholism, drug dealing and violence. As van der Velde writes in the afterword, "In a community with so little hope, overstretched social services and policing priorities elsewhere, it's easy for the gangsters to take over — and anyway, no one likes a grass."
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Best Mystery Books of 2023
As a year for mystery books, 2023 was definitely eclectic, with historical mysteries, mysteries that could be filed as supernatural horror, and the Edgar award for best novel going to the story of a serial killer on death row. The year also saw the publication of Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter, which experiments with different formats to engage the reader.
