“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

In theory, Old Bones by Douglas J Preston and Lincoln Child could be considered to be  book 20 of the FBI Special Agent AXL Pendergast…

Insidious Intent, the book immediately preceding How The Dead Speak by Val McDermid which is the latest instalment in the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series, was…

A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci is the second instalment (in assumedly a series of five) of a new series featuring Atlee Pine, a…

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan is a lot of fun — charming and entertaining!