Congratulations to Mark Ellis, Winner of the Inaugural Cob and Pen Award for his novel Death of an Officer at the new Barnes Crime Writing Festival. I've known Mark for...

I love a good historical mystery and David Penny always delivers. A Surfeit of Grief is the latest in his popular Thomas Berrington series. This began with ten books set...

Bestseller Catriona Ward returns with Nowhere Burning, her sixth novel and a journey into the perilous Rocky Mountains. It’s an enrapturing read, weaving one tale into another with such delicacy...

For much of the sixteenth century, Seville was Spain’s emblematic imperial city. It was the main port of entry for silver, gold and other treasures from Spain’s overseas empire, and...

Long ago, I worked at a school whose teachers formed an enthusiastic crime fiction group and the Head of Chemistry recommended Post Mortem by the relatively unknown Patricia Cornwell: I...

Written In Blood is the third book by Fiona Forsyth featuring the poet Ovid. We first met Forsyth’s Ovid in Poetic Justice, as he begins his exile in Tomis, on...

There are so many wonderful characters in this book to choose from, but it is the soul of the British Intelligence establishment which stands out as the lead in its...

In Warning Signs, her second psychological thriller, Tracy Sierra explores father and son relationships, a mother’s love, the toxic depths of the male psyche and misogyny. The scale and breadth...

Gilly MacMillan is known for her psychological, twisty thrillers, often family-focused domestic noir, which reach back into their characters’ past. So, The Burning Library is something of a departure for...