I had no idea, when I read this book, that the author Frank Bell was a pseudonym of Mildred Benson,…
I’d never read a book set in Latvia before, so this one was interesting for both its character-driven story and…
And Then There Were None… in a hotel on the Moon! What a great idea, a locked room mystery with…
An intriguing literary thriller which turned out to be smarter and more brutal than the blurb suggested. Some of the…
What’s 70% police procedural, 20% Arthurian fantasy and 10% supernatural horror? The answer is Kingsrise, an unusual and sophisticated novel…
I do enjoy a genre-bending book! I loved how Snakes and Ladders began as a crime thriller, then it morphed…
Who is Mr Ripley and what are his talents? In this classic thriller novel, first published in 1955, we follow…
Ira Levin was only twenty-three when his debut novel was published. A Kiss Before Dying is a crime thriller set…
An impressively-researched detective novel set in Los Angeles, 1946. I would recommend it and am pleased to hear that there’ll…
An atmospheric historical crime novel from Chris Brookmyre and his wife Marisa Haetzman, a consultant anaesthetist and researcher of the…