Len Deighton , 1929-2026 . Image copyright David Cairns Getty Images, 1966. From marketing man to illustrator, where Deighton created more than 200 book covers including the first UK edition...

In Judge Stone , award-winning actress Viola Davis teams up with bestselling author James Patterson to craft an engaging legal thriller that tackles the divisive issues of women’s reproductive rights...

Who is writer Col Newton? How I tricked AI into thinking one of my fictional characters is real. By R.N. Morris I recently spotted the following notice on a literary...

When we heard there was a new blockbuster crime series YOUNG SHERLOCK coming to Amazon, a Prime Original directed by GUY RITCHIE we sent Guy Hale to the premier to...

The case of Dr Roderigo Lopez, the only physician to English royalty ever to be executed for high treason, is not particularly well known, though Dominic Green’s The Double Life...

What bonds you and your friends? Hopefully it’s happy events, shared histories and supportive relationships. But we all have things in our past that we’d rather forget, usually benign. At...

**New** The Murder Pool by Stella Blómkvist Book Four in the Stella Blómkvist murder mystery series. Translated by Quentin Bates. So Iceland’s most feared crusading lawyer is back, at least...

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...