The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz is, unfortunately, the last in the series of six Swedish crime noir stories featuring one of the…

In An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear, it would be easy to cynically dismiss Maisie Dobbs as a bit of a Pollyanna

A quote from Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear sums up the main character very well; “My work does not end when a solution to…

Kin by Snorri Kristjansson is book 1 of a new series featuring Helga Finnsdottir, a teenage female amateur detective living in 970AD Viking Sweden. The…

The Dark Angel by Elly Griffiths, finds Ruth and her daughter Katie accepting an invitation to Italy from an old archeologist colleague, to have a…

In The Suicide Bride, Tanya Bretherton reveals how society and the law turned a blind eye to domestic violence.

In Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler, Arthur Bryant and John May first meet as (very) young detectives in 1940 in London.

Unto Us A son Is Given the 28th book in the Commissario Brunetti series by  Donna Leon

The Lost Man is the third novel by Jane Harper and again, she has created a stunning character driven novel that will stay with you…

We meet Maisie Dobbs in the Spring of 1929, as she embarks on her solo career as a private investigator. Very early on we can…

Reading a novel by Alexander McCall Smith feels as if a soothing balm is being applied to all the hurts and injuries inflicted by the…