5 December 2024
Baby-snatch thriller adds riddle of which author wrote which part
Two puzzles for the price of one As if one superbly twisted plot was not enough, two top crime writers have united to leave readers puzzling over who wrote what. Author credits for The Wrong Child are highlighted on the cover as MJ Arlidge and Julia Crouch. Both have long been famed as being among… Continue Reading
5 December 2024
Baby-snatch thriller adds riddle of which author wrote which part
11 October 2024
Thrills remain though we know who dunnit
5 September 2024
How cosy can cosy crime become?
12 August 2024
Tabloid scandals ready-made for a modern Becky Sharp
A recent trip into the chemistry lab surprised and delighted with the discovery that it held a formula for joy. It produced the recipe (pictured left) for sheer undiluted pleasure, as well as moments of laugh-out-loud comic interludes. Thankfully there was no need this time for the white coat and protective goggles demanded by Health… Continue Reading
2 April 2023
Midsommer faces Canadian rival for murder frequency
11 March 2023
Crime so cosy that it makes an excellent nightcap
21 November 2022
Book reviewers need to get out from Between the Covers
9 November 2022
Crime tale thrills along worldwide tourist trails
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18 February 2023
Deep in the forest a page turner lures its readers in
What makes a good page turner? Anyone seeking the answer needs only to devour the final fifty or so pages of Bad Apples. Allow yourself to be drawn in – which is a hands down certainty in itself – and you will be turning pages with increasing rapidity, helpless to resist. Desperate to know the… Continue Reading