Several years ago, I read Georgette Heyer’s A Blunt Instrument and found it highly entertaining for all the wrong reasons. It struck me as...

Report for Murder  (1987) introduces the self-described ‘cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist’ Lindsay Gordon. This description oc...

A Ladder to the Sky (2018) by John Boyne. I feel awkward liking a novel by John Boyne, given that he’s the author of The Boy in the Striped...

Harriet Tyce’s debut, Blood Orange (2019) is a visceral, slow-burning stunner of domestic suspense. Criminal defence barrister Alison is...

SJ Watson is, as we all know, the author of Before I Go to Sleep, which is impossible to dislike. His third novel is taking a while to surf...

The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944) by Edmund Crispin. Crispin’s debut is a good place to start. A marvellous meta locked room mystery  fe...

Today’s mini-reviews, the twenty-fifth set brining the total number of this pithy summaries to 100, are all television productions! Cas...