'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

I've recently enjoyed watching One Foot in the Grave all over again, admiring not only David Renwick's brilliant writing but also s...

 I first read Christianna Brand's  Cat and Mouse a very long time ago - probably in the early 80s. I knew Julian Symons had extolled th...

  The term 'bibliomystery' appeals to me. It's a term that has been popularized by Otto Penzler, the founder of the Mysterious P...

Dangerous Lies is a recent Netflix movie which was originally entitled Windfall . I was attracted, in part, by the presence in the cast of ...

Miles Tripp is an author who has intrigued me for a long time. His writing was admired by Len Deighton and Julian Symons (who mentioned him ...

'Slow-burning' is an ambiguous, double-edged description. It can be shorthand for tedious. But it can also indicate a work of subtle...

The Woman in the Window is a film based on A.J. Finn's bestselling novel, which I enjoyed reading when it was first published. It's...

The late Robert Barnard was a discerning reader of crime fiction as well as an entertaining novelist, and he was a fan of the American write...

I was tempted to watch Elizabeth Harvest , a film I'd never heard of, by the presence in the cast of Ciaran Hinds, who made a great impr...

Jane Harper's debut novel The Dry won a CWA Gold Dagger and has been much praised for its evocation of the Australian outback during a ...