Today’s review is part of my 2025 Green Penguin reading project. Julian Symons, like Michael Underwood (who I reviewed earlier this month), is another author I haven’t really engaged with in a while. My last Symons read was in 2019 and I have only read four novels by him (and some short stories) in total. […]| crossexaminingcrime
In Death in the Clouds (1935), Norman Gale says to Jane Grey: “Murder […] doesn’t concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects the innocent too. You and I are innocent, but the shadow of murder has touched us. We don’t know how that shadow is going to affect our lives.” Hercule Poirot also […]| crossexaminingcrime
Today’s a read is a recent edition to the A Very Short Introduction series. I have read various ones over the years, including one on Crime Fiction (2015). This was a particularly bad reading exper…| crossexaminingcrime
This is the fifth book in McCloy’s Basil Willing series, with her sleuth operating as a psychiatrist who supports the District Attorney’s Office and the police. Cue for Murder is my eighth novel-le…| crossexaminingcrime
