The Darkening Hour - Penny Hancock
Every crime novel is about power, I guess, and the extreme lengths people go to attain it. Penny Hancock’s The Darkening Hour is about what…
The Intel: Penny Hancock
We love writers here, and like nothing better than to find out about how they go about their writing business. Penny Hancock’s new book The…
TV Crime Log: WPC, Duty, Fleming, Suspects
Be gentle with your hard-drive recorder this week, it’s going to need a bit of tender loving care on Wednesday night when it’s working…
The Intel: Andrew Peters
You know that we love writers here, and the way they choose to dress is quite frankly none of our business. Andrew Peters is the author of novels…
Movie Crime Log: Survivor, Furnace
We’re just about at the weekend, and your thoughts may be turning to a trip to the cinema. You’ve seen that thing with the Oscar noms and the…
Breed - Chase Novak
Sometimes you can flip along the titles on your kindle and have no idea how some of those books got there. Breed, by Chase Novak, was one of those…
The Tournament - Matthew Reilly
Sometimes, historical novels can have an overblown sense of their own importance. All that history, all that fastidious research, can get in the…
TV Crime Log: Brown, Bletchley & Hostages
The first series of afternoon mysteries starring Mark Williams as GK Chesterton’s Father Brown did rather well for BBC1, banking a couple of…
TV Crime Log: Sherlock, Silent, Bridge
Sherlock is back for the first of three new episodes on the very first day of the New Year, which is a cause for celebration, is it not? And…
TV Crime Log: Midsomer, Pemberley
It’s Christmas. You’re probably reading this in front of a warm fire – if it’s a cold fire, you’re doing something wrong – feet tucked…
The Intel: Neil Richards
We love writers here, especially at Christmas. Neil Richards is the co-author with Matthew Costello of the Cherringham eBooks, self-contained…
The Intel: Lee Weeks
I do believe we reviewed the page-turner Cold As Ice by Lee Weeks earlier in the week. As you know, we like writers here, and we’re keen to learn…