'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

In Bitter Chill is a first novel by Sarah Ward, best known hitherto for her excellent blog Crime Pieces. The book is published by Faber, wh...

Mavis Doriel Hay's detective fiction seems to be making more impact now than it did on its first appearance in the 1930s. This is thanks...

This has been such a horrible “summer” so far in Britain that I had dark forebodings about a barbecue and crime event organised by t...

There is something fascinating about ancient stone circles. One has a sense of timelessness, of sharing with people long gone and forgotten....

I’ve mentioned Stephen Booth’s Lost River in the context of the amount of background information that the book contains, but there is much ...

A work colleague once startled me by saying that he judged a novel by how much he learned from it, in terms of information that he hadn’t pr...

I recently added a number of blogs to the blogroll. They include Dorte’s excellent blog – if you haven’t read her post on the rules of femi...