'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

Although Vertigo is very much not a forgotten film, I think it's not unreasonable to describe D'Entre Les Morts , the book on which ...

I've had a number of fantastic trips lately, and a couple of days before Death in the Dales, we returned from a visit to the south west ...

I'm just back from an exhilarating weekend in England's Book Town, Sedbergh, where the third Death in the Dales festival was a great...

Stories about confidence tricksters can be very appealing, and one of the best that I've read is The Long Short Cut , a 1968 novel by A...

  Today I'm celebrating the UK paperback publication of Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife. This is a book that has been very good ...

A popular sub-genre of horror films has emerged in recent years - films about people hunting other people for sport. The idea has a lot of p...

Normal is a recent film which has been quite a hit, and it stars Bob Odenkirk, who co-wrote the story with Derek Kolstad on which Kolstad ba...

My Pan paperback of John Dickson Carr's Panic in Box C   (see the above cover image) contains the ultimate endorsement - a positive quot...

I'm not a fan of reality television, mainly because it seems to me to present a false version of 'reality', but I have long admi...

I'm fascinated by books which give a detailed insight into the way leading crime writers think. Examples that spring to mind are John Cu...