'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

I was sorry to hear of the death earlier today of Maj Sjowall, at the age of 84. I've been a fan of her work for decades, and it was...

The Jigsaw Man is a spy thriller, and a pretty strange one. The ingredients are, in many ways, highly impressive. Take the cast, for a star...

The Perfect Host is a psychological thriller that seems to be following a familiar pattern, only to take new life as a result of a couple o...

Four years ago I extolled Sebastien Japrisot's novel One Deadly Summer on this blog, mentioning the film version, which dates from 198...

I was so very sorry to hear yesterday that Sheila Quigley has died quite suddenly at the age of 72. The newspaper report I've read i...

There's something very Golden Age about a title like The Case of the Calabar Bean . You simply don't get book titles like that these...

The title of today's Forgotten Book comes from Christopher Marlowe's play The Jew of Malta , which has been referenced several times...

Quiz , which ran for three episodes on consecutive nights last week, was perfect lockdown televiewing. A family entertainment show about fam...

The Coffin Trail is available today as an Amazon Kindle Daily Deal for a modest 98p - a price which I hope will tempt you if you haven...

Murder in Blue , published in 1937 by Hodder & Stoughton, was the first detective novel of Clifford Witting. It was an auspicious de...