Poirot Investigates (1924) by Agatha Christie. It's been said that Arthur Conan Doyle should have stuck to writing short stories and Aga...

Patricia Highsmith (1921-95) would not like being featured on this blog, as she strongly resented the label 'crime writer', and, if ...

The Allegations  (2016) by Mark Lawson.  Lawson’s novel provides an inevitable response to what the author considers the age of trial-by-pu...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes  (1893) by Arthur Conan Doyle . This collection of short stories was supposed to provide the final word on t...

The fourth series of The Bridge  is finally airing on BBC 2, so I figured this would be a good time to review it. The other day, flicking th...

Oxfam in Norwich has a nice selection of old Penguins, and my eye always goes directly to the green ones. You probably don’t need me to tel...

When I purchased No Man's Nightingale (2013) from a 3-for-£5 bin, I had no idea it was the final Inspector Wexford novel. I found myself...