Book review: The Cut by Chris Brookmyre

Millie Spark has been released after serving a quarter of a century in prison for the murder of her boyfriend.…

Discovering great non-fiction — hear the podcast, read the book

I have a tendency to be over-ambitious when it comes to non-fiction. I’ll pick up a tome on a subject…

We Are Bellingcat is a fascinating account of the history of investigative news site Bellingcat and how they pioneered using…

I get pop-ups and notifications all day asking for my views on websites, purchases, even deliveries. I try to ignore…

The Conjure-Man Dies is believed to be the first detective novel by an African-American author, published in 1932. Rudolph Fisher…

Vera Kelly is posing as a Canadian student in Buenos Aires in 1966, but she is actually working for the…

I wrote a couple of years ago about my conversion to audiobooks. At the time I was an enthusiastic subscriber…

This is one of my occasional series where I share my thoughts on the whole of a book, so if…

I thought it would be interesting to review these two histories together. They both cover the period of the Norman…

The Coffinmaker’s Garden is the third in the Ash Henderson series but also features the ‘Misfit Mob’, the team of…