Over the last 15 years, Alex Gerlis has become something of a specialist when it comes to espionage novels set during World War II, and his writing is going from strength to strength. In 2024, he began an exciting new series with Every Spy a…
When you’re about to interview a crime fiction author, you can never really tell what they did before writing mysteries. It’s always interesting to know, but Sarah Yarwood-Lovett has one of the most fascinating backstories we’ve come across. She’s an ecologist. Now, how do we…
Following closely on the heels of the French crime show The Eclipse, Channel 4 and Walter Presents have announced that the dark Dutch production Sphinx is coming with English subtitles. It too centres on the disappearance of a teenage girl but has a much creepier…
From And Then There Were None to Shutter Island, you know when you’re surrounded by ocean the only way out is to catch the killer… It’s a time-worn setup in crime fiction but it works a treat. So, let’s start our news report stuck on…
Ed Cook is a British immigrant living in Tokyo with his Japanese wife, Sayuri, and their toddler daughter, Kaori. Having been unemployed for six months, Ed spends his days in illegal pachinko parlours or betting on horses. He has squandered their savings and his daughter’s…
A historical locked-room mystery that balances homage with invention, The Murder at World’s End is Ross Montgomery’s debut adult novel. Set in the autumn of 1910 on a windswept island off the Cornish coast, it is both a complex puzzle mystery and a vivid evocation…
