'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

I have quite a vivid memory of being on holiday with my parents in Colwyn Bay in the mid-70s when my Dad ran out of books to read. So he bou...

On Monday I mentioned Ruth Anderson of Wigtown's Well Read Books. She's not only a great bookseller but also very generous and she g...

I'm back at home after an eventful few weeks. I spent some time at Harrogate coinciding with the crime writing festival, and had some lo...

It's more than two years since I last discussed Crime Dossiers on this blog , so it's high time to take another look at one of the m...

British folk-horror appeals to me, although it will probably be a long time before anyone tops the film that really catapulted this type of ...

  Affliction is a bleak film, a study of cyclical violence and psychological disintegration. If you're looking for something to cheer y...

Helen McCloy was one of the most interesting American woman crime writers of the twentieth century. I say this on the strength of having rea...

Today sees the Detection Club's AGM and summer lunch - which will take place in the Lake District, the first time the Club has ever met ...

To my delight and surprise, season three of The White Lotus (expanded again, this time to eight episodes, but thankfully with little or no p...

  A few years ago, I had the chance to pick up, at a very modest price, an inscribed copy of a novel called The Singing Masons , written by ...