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Could you shoot your husband in cold blood? Probably not. But what if you had previously been...
A naïve young artist falls in love in war torn Berlin. Unfortunately, he doesn't realise that his...
Nazis. Royalty. Spies. Mysterious deaths to be investigated. Can there possibly be a better plot...
Trust no-one. Don't believe people when they tell you their name and certainly don't believe a...
With France in turmoil after the Revolution, the last thing anyone needed was a serial killer...
The feeling is absolutely delicious. It is not enough simply to get your own back. For added...
The sense of claustrophobia. The ping of the sonar. Breath held and sweat dripping as you await...
Crime authors are always struggling to come up with original plot-lines. Hollywood just doesn't...
Most of us have been there. That magical holiday when you meet a kindred spirit and start to fall...
Not yet thirty years after the American War of Independence, New York is in the grip of violent...
“Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.” wrote Dave Barry. But for...
Us and them. It doesn't matter whether it is money, class, religion, football team rivalry, or...
No DNA. No fingerprints. No psychological profiling of offenders. Crime in Tudor times is reduced...
It's just a phone call from your husband, but when you answer the phone, he's obviously in some...
Family goes ever on. It has its ups. It has its downs. We've all been there, give or take a few...
There has been a sea change over the last few years. History books used to be a simple telling of...
There has to be something more to life than simply cleaning up after your brat, sorry, 'little...
Where would crime writers be without a missing person or two, a series of unsolved murders and a...
The families of criminals sentenced to be transported to Australia used to keep a bottle of their...
The Scottish Highlands, and I say this as a Sassenach, are the most scenic parts of the British...
When I was younger, I could happily believe in fantasy novels; dragons, magic and the like....
As someone who gets vertigo climbing the stairs, going anywhere near a mountain fills me with...
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must...
The film producer Sam Goldwyn wanted his films to 'begin with an earthquake and build up to a...
Having read dozens of Scandi Noir thrillers over the years, I can't remember one being set in...
Who hasn't played the game? Pick your ideal dinner party guests for the greatest meal of all...
Society's infrastructure changes massively after a major conflict, as the population gets skewed...
The blurb for this novel talks about one of the main characters being an eccentric aunt. This can...
Who is responsible for a terror attack? Is it the person who detonates the bomb? Or is he just a...
OK, so we didn't burn witches in this country, we merely hanged them. As someone whose parents...
Can you imagine what it must be like to be told that your mother is dead, only to find out years...
For over two thousand years, people have gone to war over various parts of the Middle East,...
You know what sort of book you are going to be in for when the word 'gallows' appears in the...
I've enjoyed reading several of Rory Clements' other historical novels and thoroughly enjoyed...
With the honourable exception of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, the fantasy genre has at best been...
On the face of it, crime and comedy, don't, and should never, mix. There's nothing funny about...
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