Professor Gregor Reid's 3 favorite reads in 2024

One man

In a fictional novel

Until he becomes real

Who is Frank di Callo?

From the streets of Boston and Manhattan to Colorado and the plains of North Dakota, investigative journalist Barry Mackay intends to find out.

Before anyone else dies and it's too late to save America.

Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch together take on a seemingly unwinnable case in blistering legal thriller from Number One bestseller Michael Connelly.

When defence lawyer Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey's one of the best American legal brains in the business, and to switch sides likes this would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup, a convicted child killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed… show more.

From 1976 to 1983, during a brutal military regime in Argentina, thousands of people disappeared. In At Half-Light, Alejandra’s parents have fled the dictatorship and settled in Peterborough, Canada. As a child, she discovers they have been keeping terrible secrets from her and suffers from nightmares. She is comforted by her grandfather’s stories of his life as an orphan in a tenement house in Buenos Aires at the turn of the last century. The stories are filled with colourful characters – singers, thieves, and fortune tellers. He fills the house with tango music and teaches her to dance. When her… show more.