The Vanished Bride
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë become female detectives when they set off across the wet and wild Yorkshire moors in pursuit of the truth in…
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England’s Finest
The exploits of extraordinary elderly eccentrics DCIs Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit in London are misremembered with much black humour…
Catherine Turnbull: Top five books of 2019
I’m always partial to modern historical crime novels and thrillers and my selection includes books set in the 1840s and the 1930s, 40s and 50s.…
The Vanished Bride
Written by Bella Ellis — Would you believe the premise that three spinster sisters living in a Victorian parsonage would have the experience and nous to solve…
England’s Finest
Written by Christopher Fowler — It often feels like you have hit the jackpot when you fall in love with books featuring terrific fictional characters…
Ten books featuring real writers as sleuths
One of the best things about the crime fiction genre is the passion of the authors working in it. They put no end of research…
Sorry for the Dead
Written by Nicola Upson — Those who enjoy Nicola Upson’s series featuring unconventional crime writer Josephine Tey, cast as a detective, will be used to the…
Murder by the Minster
Written by Helen Cox — This debut mystery book by the author of two romantic novels is a mash up of cosy crime, comedy, romance,…
Harrogate 2019 – from the scene of the crime…
Catherine Turnbull reports on the 2019 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate Who’d have thought it? Turns out Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon…
Ungentlemanly Warfare
When the assassination of the scientist behind Hitler’s miracle jet fighter is ordered, there is only one man who can do the job – burned…
Ungentlemanly Warfare
Written by Howard Linskey — When the assassination of the scientist behind Hitler’s miracle jet fighter is ordered, there is only one man who can…
Indian Summer
Written by Sara Sheridan — In the scheme of things across the genre, the Mirabelle Bevan mysteries fall into the cosy crime category. But like…
Nemesis
If you’ve read the previous two adventures by Rory Clements featuring Cambridge professor Tom Wilde, you will know that he has little time to bury himself in…
Day of the Accident
Written by Nuala Ellwood — You may have been looking forward to picking up this second book by Nuala Ellwood, following her debut thriller, My Sister’s Bones.…
Village of the Lost Girls
Written by Agustin Martínez, translated by Frank Wynne — This missing persons thriller, with its twists racing through the hairpin bends of the Pyrenees, is a…
Nemesis
Written by Rory Clements — If you’ve read the previous two adventures featuring Cambridge professor Tom Wilde you will know that he has little time to…