'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

The Private Wound was the last crime novel published by Nicholas Blake, aka C. Day-Lewis, and appeared in 1968, after his appointment as Po...

Xavier Lechard is one of my favourite crime fiction bloggers. His blog, At the Villa Rose , has been around for a long time, predating this ...

Mortmain Hall is published by Head of Zeus today, and you can bet I'll be celebrating tonight, even if it's in the family home r...

Mortmain Hall is published by Head of Zeus on Thursday. For me, it's an exciting moment, and a book I really care about enormously. ...

Andrew Wilson first came to my attention as the author of an admirable biography of Patricia Highsmith. More recently, he's established ...

If you're looking for some comfortable viewing to escape darkness in the real world, then Midsommar isn't really for you. This new ...

Dolores Hitchens is a writer I haven't read until recently. Thanks to Stark House Press, who have reprinted Stairway to an Empty Room an...

In these strange and unprecedented times, I may publish a few more blog posts than usual in the hope of keeping loyal readers entertained. I...

As a committed Michael Gilbert fan, I hurried to borrow The Empty House from the library not long after it was published back in 1978. It w...

I was prompted to seek out George Milner's The Crime Against Marcella , which dates from 1963, after reading a laudatory review by Franc...