My protagonist in  A Murder for Miss Hortense  is retired nurse, keen gardener, renowned cook and fearless sleuth, Miss Hortense, a formidab...

  I’ve been a voracious reader of early twentieth crime fiction since childhood. Christie was my Blyton. A firm favourite of ten-year-old Na...

  New Yorker Nanette Hayes the main protagonist in Charlotte Carter's excellent noir jazz infused series is a young black jazz musician ...

  January 2022 1794: The City Between The Bridges is by Niklas Natt och Dag. The year is 1794. A young nobleman, Eric Three Roses, languish...

  February 2020 Searching for Sylvia Lee is by Jean Kwok.  It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful ol...

Great news! According to Variety.com Mick Herron’s outstanding Slough House series is being adapted. Actor Gary Oldman will star in ...

January 2019 The year is 1793, Stockholm. King Gustav of Sweden has been assassinated, years of foreign wars have e...

June 2018 This is What Happened is by Mick Herron.   Something's happened.   A lot of things have happened.   If...

January 2018 Wine and murder - nothing is more likely to rouse Auntie Poldi's love of the chase.   Still relishing the notoriety f...