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Enjoy reading in the garden this summer. Picture: Getty HOLIDAYS will feel slightly different this year with foreign jaunts looking unlikely (at least at present). Whether you are heading off to explore Scotland at large – or relaxing in your own back garden – our round-up of recent fiction and non-fiction releases is designed to help you while away a lazy afternoon (or two). THRILLERS Hostage by Clare Mackintosh (Sphere, £14.99) Fasten your seatbelts. Hostage is a white-knuckle ride that takes the classic locked-room thriller airborne. This gripping read by police officer-turned-aut...

This May in Litty Committee: Flock edited by author Ellen van Neerven, a young adult sci-fi for fans of Black Mirror from Joan He.

When a Cold Case Turns Deadly Credit...Pablo Amargo April 23, 2021 This column doesn’t do trend spotting, but the proliferation of crime novels featuring true-crime podcasts as a plot device has not escaped notice. (I write and edit crime nonfiction; listening to such podcasts is an occupational hazard.) In her propulsive debut, GIRL, 11 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 340 pp., $25), Amy Suiter Clarke ventures further in the fusion of real-life and fictional crime storytelling, making the reader privy to excerpts and transcripts from “Justice Delayed,” the podcast hosted by her protagonist...