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…

Whilst this instalment; Crucible, is number 14 in the Sigma Force thriller series, it’s best to have read the immediate predecessor The Demon Crown first…

Book five; Redemption, of the Amos Decker series starts, ominously enough, with the lead character reluctantly returning to his home town in Ohio USA.

This is the second instalment in the Maisie Dobbs series, set in post-war London. It is 1930 and Maisie is instructed by Joseph Waite, a…

“Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the daily possibility of love dying. Greene shows us who…

In The Crossing Places, when a child’s bones are discovered in the marshes close to an ancient site that Ruth helped excavated ten years ago,…

One approaches the latest instalment; The Book Artist in the Hugo Marston crime-solving series with a decent glass of red wine and a cozy fireplace…

The Ink Stain is set in Sydney town and The Rocks of 1826 and concerns the murder of a newspaper editor. 

Holding by Graham Norton is set in a small remote village in Ireland where everyone knows everyone and their business.

The Tiger in the Smoke is an extraordinary book by Margery Allingham that transports the reader to unexpected places.

Verses for the Dead by Preston & Child is the 17th mystery thriller in the Agent Pendergast series