Murdering Mr Monti (1994) by Judith Viorst. Judith Viorst is best-known as a self-help author, which is also the profession of this novel’...

Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses (1959) by Georges Simenon. This entertaining short novel sees Maigret two years from retirement and pi...

Rose is an insomniac who has experienced more than her share of personal tragedy. One day, she comes across a journal, apparently written b...

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...