Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Wednesday, 29 April 2026

Horror in Another Dimension: Strange Houses

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Strange Houses  by Uketsu Pushkin Vertigo Pp.197   This is the first of three (so far) short novels by Uketsu, translated to English from ...
Wednesday, 20 March 2024

Trouble in Paradise: How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

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  How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House  by Cherie Jones Tinder Press Pp. 308 The title refers to a cautionary tale parents tell their...
Tuesday, 25 July 2023

You Keep It All In: A Clear Conscience

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A Clear Conscience  by Frances Fyfield Corgi Pp. 284 Helen West is a prosecutor in domestic violence cases, and this is her fifth outing in ...
Wednesday, 19 October 2022

With a Pinch of Salt

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I've been thinking about my post last week , and what an incongruity there is between the epergne that was awarded to the Campbells, and...
Tuesday, 30 August 2022

Crime of its Time: Vintage Murder

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Vintage Murder  by Ngaio Marsh Fontana Pp.223 Inspector Roderick Alleyn is on holiday in New Zealand when he gets caught up with a theatre g...
Friday, 27 August 2021

Friday Five: Classic Films I 'Should' Have Watched

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You know those films that you always feel you should   have watched, but you just haven't got round to it yet? Well, over the last week ...
Tuesday, 6 July 2021

Ham and Pea Soup: A Rare Interest in Corpses

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A Rare Interest in Corpses  by Ann Granger Headline Pp. 410 Marketed in some territories as The Companion , this is the first novel in what ...
Wednesday, 1 January 2020

Cosy Cat Crime: The Cat Who Sniffed Glue

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The Cat Who Sniffed Glue by Lilian Jackson Braun Jove Books Pp. 200 The eighth book in The Cat Who… mystery series is a light...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Count Down Quotes to 'The Hollow' 12

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"We often know quite well who's guilty of crime, but we can't always get sufficent evidence." - Inspector Colquhoun, C.I...