My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018) by Oyinkan Braithwaite . This is truly a stand-out debut. A short and witty novel written as part of a...

This is a fascinating French novel from the 1970s and, although I read the first English translation, I’ve given it its slightly less offen...

 Welcome to my one-hundredth post on A Sign of the Crimes !  Andrew Wilson’s series of mysteries featuring Agatha Christie as a d...

I have often wondered what an Alfred Hitchcock adaptation of Agatha Christie would look like, and I think that we've got closest to an...

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...