Northanger Abbey (1817) by Jane Austen. Arguably the first metatextual detective novel, Austen’s witty satire is ostensibly a romance st...

Rosemary Harris, now in her nineties, is not a particularly well-known name any more but, once upon a time, she was a popular and prolific ...

This is my first blog post in a while, and I’m putting it on  my main website  and  my review blog . Over the last couple of months, I’v...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes  (1905) by Arthur Conan Doyle.  I’m currently rereading the original Holmes canon in order – just for fun – a...

Death of My Aunt  (1929) by C.H.B. Kitchin.  Death of My Aunt  was published by the Hogarth Press, and with its droll narrative style aimed...

Scouring my bookshelves for something seasonal to blog about in the run-up to Hallowe’en, I saw several contenders. I knew that everyone wo...

Chris Mooney, not the journalist, is a Boston-based thriller writer who has sold over a million books. Mooney has been praised by all the ...