Dying Fall takes us away from Ruth’s beloved Norfolk home to the much more prosaic landscape of Blackpool.

See you at the Toxteth by Peter Corris revolves around the Toxteth Hotel in Glebe, which was one of the favourite haunts of Cliff Hardy,…

It’s hard to believe that The Suspect by Michael Robotham is his first novel. It’s a gripping psychological thriller, with well defined characters and a…

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