The Killer Question by Janice Hallett

September 23, 2025

Janice Hallett has created her own crime fiction niche, beginning with The Appeal. She continues in that slot with her latest book, The Killer Question. If you’re unfamiliar with her books, she uses letters, texts, emails, phone calls, pub reviews, and in this...

The Patient by Tim Sullivan

September 13, 2025

Tim Sullivan’s DS Cross books are police procedurals that really should be read in order. While Sullivan spent a great deal of time in the first book, The Dentist, introducing George Cross and the idiosyncrasies of his Asperger’s syndrome, by the third...

Recap – The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

September 06, 2025

There are several reasons you’re getting the recap of 2020’s debut of The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. I read 67 pages of a novel with one of the most malevolent characters I ever read. She was manipulative and just horrific, and I couldn’t...

The Cyclist by Tim Sullivan

August 12, 2025

I am in love with DS George Cross, not as a person, but as a character in a police procedural. I have the feeling he would be an exasperating person in real life, and very difficult to work with. But, his partner, DS Josie Ottey is making progress in Tim...

His Burial Too by Catherine Aird

August 09, 2025

Nero Wolfe has his orchids. Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan has his roses. There he is, in the middle of a complicated case in Catherine Aird’s His Burial Too, and he’s worried that his Princess Grace rose will peak before a show on Saturday. Little things...