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…

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…