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The Weekend Away - 2022 film reviewThe Weekend Away strikes me as fairly typical of the films that you find on platforms like Netflix. It's a thriller, efficiently...
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Two Writers: One Story - A.J. Hawley and Rob ParkerThere were a number of really enjoyable highlights at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival over the weekend. One event I'd like...
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Forgotten Book - Let X be the MurdererOne of the sessions at Bodies from the Library was a conversation between Richard Reynolds, formerly a great bookseller at Heffers in...
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Peter Lovesey'Never meet your heroes' is one of those 'rules' in life that has some merit, but there are also various exceptions to it. Perhaps it...
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Libraries and the Warrington exhibition of crime writingI've often written and spoken of my lifelong enthusiasm for libraries. I've haunted them since childhood, and most of my early crime...
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Forgotten Book - Driven DeathI enjoyed Nigel Orde-Powlett's little-known first detective novel, The Cast to Death , so I was delighted to lay my hands on a copy of his even...
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Operation Diplomat by Francis DurbridgeI've said plenty of times how much I enjoy the 'cliff-hanger' serials written by Francis Durbridge. Maybe they stretch plausibility to the...
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A Year to RememberI celebrated my birthday on Friday with a delightful boat trip to Greenwich in the sun. A wonderful day, and also a peaceful opportunity to...
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The joys of book dealing - an interview with Stephen ConwayI love second hand bookshops and one of the many pleasures of my recent trip to Shetland was the chance to visit a lovely new second...
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Guest Blog - Nina Wachsman on 'Frenchman's Creek'Something a little different today, a guest blog from Nina Wachsman (pictured). Nina is a former art director and illustrator in New York...
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Forgotten Book - The Missing Moneylender aka The Man Who Was DeadI've avoided reading The Missing Moneylender , by W. Stanley Sykes, for a long time. A blog post I read about it suggested that the story...
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The Art of the WhodunitThe last few weeks have been full of enjoyable things - I've been really lucky, and the gorgeous weather has been a bonus. A special treat...
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Bodies from the Library 2023Over the past four weekends I've enjoyed the company of fellow crime fans in a variety of splendid settings - in Oxford (more of which...
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Forgotten Book - The Brazen ConfessionIt is safe to describe Cecil Freeman Gregg (1898-1960) as a forgotten author. He was, in fact, one of the genre's few accountants (Richard...
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Shetland NoirI'm back home briefly - before setting off for Bodies from the Library - after a wonderful trip to Shetland Noir, my first ever visit to...
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The Nest - 2020 film reviewOne can look at The Nest in different ways. On the one hand, you might argue that it's a 1980s drama that brims with potential but...
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Forgotten Book - Strike for a KingdomWhen I was researching Welsh crime fiction for my British Library anthology of Welsh mysteries, I came across several names previously...
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Long Weekend - 1978 film reviewConcern about damage that human beings do to their environment isn't new. In fact it's at the heart of an Australian film dating back...
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Forgotten Book - On the Night of the FireIf you're looking for 'cosy' escapism, you'd probably better give F.L. Green's On the Night of the Fire a miss. This book, published in...
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Hidden City - 1987 film reviewWay back in 1977, I happened to watch a play on TV. It was called Stronger than the Sun and it was written by a young playwright called...
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Where the Truth Lies - 2005 film reviewI've mentioned more than once on this blog my enthusiasm for the work of Rupert Holmes. I feel quite an affinity for him simply because we were...
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Forgotten Book - Bored to DeathBored to Death strikes me as a risky title to give to any book. What if a reader can't help yawning? In the case of the first (US)...
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Framed - 2021 film reviewFramed is a new film, flawed and low-budget, but quite interesting as an example of an attempt to rewrite Rear Window as a story...
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Where the Crawdads Sing - 2022 film reviewWhere the Crawdads Sing is a film based on Delia Owens' book of the same name - a first novel published by an author in her late...
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Forgotten Book - A Crime of One's OwnEdward Grierson's A Crime of One's Own has been sitting quietly in my TBR pile (mountain range would be nearer the mark) for quite a few...
