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Keigo Higashino (1958-2026) Remembered

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For readers of crime fiction, Keigo Higashino was much more than the bestselling author of The Devotion of Suspect X. He was a writer who transformed expectations of what a detective novel could be: a master of intricate plotting, psychological insight and devastating emotional revelations….
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Shrink Solves Murder by Philippa Perry

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Shrink Solves Murder, the crime fiction debut from psychotherapist and bestselling writer Philippa Perry, recognises the appeal of placing intelligence, observation and human understanding at the centre of a good mystery rather than procedural mechanics or increasingly elaborate acts of violence. The novel introduces Patricia…
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Collateral Death by J Kushley

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Crime fiction is a genre built on familiar tropes: the suspicious death, the damaged investigator, the institution that prefers easy answers over difficult truths. What makes a mystery novel memorable is not whether it uses these conventions but what it does with them. In Collateral…
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A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz

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There’s something delightfully audacious about the premise of A Deadly Episode. The latest instalment in Anthony Horowitz’s long-running Hawthorne series begins with a murder that appears, at first glance anyway, to be deeply personal: private detective Daniel Hawthorne is stabbed to death. Except he isn’t….
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Make Thick My Blood by Toni Viola

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Set against the volatile backdrop of Rome, Toni Viola’s Make Thick My Blood blends procedural investigation, political intrigue and personal reckoning into a thriller that is as interested in the moral pressures placed on its characters as it is in solving a crime. As a…
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