'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

I know there are very many well-read people who visit this blog, but I'm fairly confident that few, if any, of them will have read A Vie...

Nobody , a film that has enjoyed critical and commercial success, opens with a bruised and battered Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk, who is exce...

I'm truly delighted with the first review of What the World Needs Now , which has just appeared in Ellery Queen's MysteryMagazine. S...

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...