Skip to main content
Page-turners that will stay glued to your hands
Mat Coward’s crime fiction round-up

KELLY’S mother always tells her to stay away from “those Hollywood types” in What Remains of Me by AL Gaylin (Arrow, £7.99) and with good reason.

But her words, as it turns out, are much too late to save her.

Kelly lives within sight of the Hollywood sign and goes to high school with the children of cinema royalty. What teenager could reasonably be expected to resist all that glamour?

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
round up
Cinema / 2 April 2026
2 April 2026

LEO BOIX, ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review Night Stage, Two Women, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, and Fuze

DB
TV Network Monitor / 25 February 2026
25 February 2026

DENNIS BROE points out that two popular TV series promote police violence and disguise it as ‘fun’

crime
Crime Fiction / 12 August 2025
12 August 2025

Timeloop murder, trad family MomBomb, Sicilian crime pages and Craven praise

satie
Books / 18 July 2025
18 July 2025

ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes an exuberant blend of emotion and analysis that captures the politics and contrarian nature of the French composer