Buried Memories by Simon R. Green

September 21, 2021

“Call me Ishmael. Ishmael Jones.” Ishmael Jones is an alien whose starship crashed in a small English country town in 1963. For nine previous books, Simon R. Green has sent Jones to chase monsters and mysteries as Jones’ own past slowly revealed...

The House on Widows Hill by Simon R. Green

August 30, 2020

There’s just something about Simon R. Green’s Ishmael Jones mysteries that appeals to me. Green’s mysteries are as close to horror as I get. The House on Widows Hill, the ninth in the series, is a combination of mystery, aliens, murder, and the...

Night Train to Murder by Simon R. Green

January 28, 2020

I’m a fan of Simon R. Green’s paranormal mysteries featuring Ishmael Jones, the alien who crashed to earth in 1963, and has been hiding and working as a human ever since. Even I have to admit, though, that Ishmael missed the obvious answer to this locked...

Murder in the Dark by Simon R. Green

November 30, 2018

If you haven’t yet discovered Simon R. Green’s Ishmael Jones mysteries, Murder in the Dark is a good place to start. It’s not quite as graphically violent as some of the earlier ones in the series. In fact, this one is reminiscent of Agatha...

Into the Thinnest of Air by Simon R. Green

February 21, 2018

I’m a big fan of Simon R. Green’s Ishmael Jones mysteries. They feature an unconventional sleuth, an alien who crashed landed in England in 1963, and some fifty years later he works for the Organization, protecting humanity from otherworldly threats. He...