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The sexologist crime author

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On the Radar — What? A sexologist who is also a crime author? Or, in this case was a crime author? Well, yes it’s true. The secretive Prof Ernest Borneman taught sexology in Salzburg, but before that he was a German emigre in London who…
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A Climate of Fear

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Written by Fred Vargas, translated by Sian Reynolds — One of the challenges when writing a long-standing series is to find ways to keep it fresh and interesting. In her ninth Commissaire Adamsberg book, Vargas takes the inspector abroad. It’s not the first time she’s done…
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The Billionaire returns

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On the Radar — It’s a feature of fame that once an artist makes the big time, there is also an appetite for their earlier works which may not have attracted much attention first time around. We kick off with a pre-Roy Grace novel by…
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First look: The Yellow Diamond

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Here’s a surprise. Andrew Martin is back with a new novel, but it doesn’t involve trains, and Jim Stringer is nowhere to be found. The author has swapped those topics for a new idea that he’s come up with, and The Yellow Diamond focuses on…
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Books of Prey

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On the Radar — It’s a week for deadly killers, and intrepid detectives to hunt them down. Let’s start off with the latest Jefferson Winter novel by James Carol, entitled Prey. We’ve also got an action-packed debut set in London, some historical crime fiction and a novelisation…
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Gems from the Golden Age

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Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L Sayers – just a handful of the best-known names from the Golden Age of crime fiction back in the 1920s and 30s. In those days, detectives had something proper about them, there was a certainness about right…
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