We’ve loved M. W. Craven since we read The Puppet Show. It wasn’t his first book – we had to […]
For the fourth instalment of The Thursday Murder Club, the residents of Coopers Chase find themselves meddling with an international […]
In this fourth instalment of the Banyard and Mingle mysteries, Seraph of the Sallow Grove, it starts strong. Within a […]
The thing about Richard Osman is that in three quick bouts, he’s become the undisputed champion of cosy mysteries. Technically, […]
Layered like the shattered striations of the lithosphere, strap yourselves in for a multi-meta celebration of crime from Catherine Ryan […]
For those unfamiliar with Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw, they are the detective duo of the modern era. Like Holmes […]
Part of the quick reads programme from The Reading Agency, ‘The Cutting Season’ is already rubber-stamped as great storytelling and […]
Otto Penzler has gathered together fourteen stories of impossible crimes, all part of the locked-room mystery cannon, despite some great […]
In this second instalment of The Thursday Murder Club Mysteries, the edges are extended in all directions. There is more […]
The Sanatorium is a neat blend of detective fiction, psychological discomfort, and blizzard-swept house of horror. After a cinematic introduction […]
I write this briefly, sitting in the deathly-cold bath that Osman has trapped me in. It has been more than […]
M. W. Craven has really outdone himself on this one. The simplest way to describe this book is that you’ll […]
The Shadow of Grayrton Mire is the third installment of the Banyard and Mingle series. Set in a post-cataclysmic Earthoria, […]
Embers is a book of many threads. Through the core story of a mysterious ritualistic slaughter of a reindeer herd, […]
Michael Banyard and Josiah Mingle return in a story that begins with a distinctly Holmesian letter, written in green ink […]
Following an earth-shattering cataclysmic event, civilisations resets minus a couple of hundred years of knowledge. Horses, steam, and clockwork drive […]
A macabre airfield, self-isolation, and a scenic picnic offer the backdrop for ace duo Poe and Tilly as a collection […]
With two highly applauded books in the Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw series already in the line-up, The Curator would […]
For this article, I’ve done something drastic. I haven’t done this before, but I’m convinced it’s the right thing to […]
Gareth Powell is a name you might have associated with award-winning dystopian steampunk novels featuring a cigar-chomping monkey, or perhaps […]
Having read a great pile of crime fiction titles over the years, from massive household names to obscure independent authors, […]