About the Book In the heat of the desert, will the trail go cold? Cairo, 1938. Archie Nevenden is many amateur archaeologist; theatre impresario; absent father; potential defector. And now, he̵…| What Cathy Read Next...
Perhaps two decades a go, I read some, but not all, of the Lord Darcy series of stories by Randall Garrett, in which detection is augmented with magic. And I’ve been telling people they’re good ever since. So for Tuesdays this, and another as-yet-undetermined future, month let’s take this Fantasy Masterworks volume of the complete … Continue reading #1340: Little Fictions – ‘The Eyes Have It’ (1964) by Randall Garrett| The Invisible Event
Welcome to today’s stop on the blog tour for The House at Devil’s Neck by Tom Mead, the latest in the crime series featuring illusionist and solver of seemingly insoluble mysteries, Jos…| What Cathy Read Next...
I have reviewed every Falco novel but a few on this blog. Lindsey Davis is one of the iconic authors of my personal canon. I hugely appreciate her wit, her nuanced and empathic view of humanity, he…| Peat Long's Blog
Today I am diving into the middle of the Marjorie Swallow, 1920s mystery series, written by Anna Sayburn Lane. I decided to try the third book in the series because of the Chelsea Flower show context, as it is not one that I have really come across before, and my mother-in-law is rather fond of […]| crossexaminingcrime
Hello! I’m back from my break (which I talked a bit about in my substack – I’ve been using that space to do quick diary-style entries!). This week, I’ll be sharing some reviews themed around the past, and then next week it will probably go back to regular reviews with set theme. It’s been a… Read More Book Review: The Riddle of St Leonard’s by Candace Robb| Eustea Reads
Welcome to book spotlight where instead of giving you another book review, I’m just going to talk about books I’ve read recently that I enjoyed. Prepare yourself for the fangirl gushing. I first re…| Keeper of the Wood Between Worlds
I’m not entirely sure what I expected from The Murderer’s Ape (2014) by Jakob Wegelius, but it wasn’t a Gulliver’s Travels (1726)-esque multinational adventure written by an intelligent gorilla. And while the book that results is in no way a bad thing, it’s also not really a murder mystery in the vein of what I’m … Continue reading #1319: Minor Felonies – The Murderer’s Ape (2014) by Jakob Wegelius [trans. Peter Graves 2017]| The Invisible Event
Storm has re-contracted bestselling historical mystery author Emily Organ for three new books in the Emma Langley series, following the successful launch of The Whitechapel Widow which has got off to a flying start. Deputy Managing Director Claire Bord has acquired World All Language rights including Film and TV in the three new Emma Langley ... The post Storm signs bestselling historical mystery author Emily Organ for more books in the Emma Langley series appeared first on Storm Publishing.| Storm Publishing
Current crime and detective fiction fans needn’t look too hard to find a successful children’s author who transitioned well into writing books for grown-ups, and now Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal (2021) and four subsequent books, is heading in the other direction, with A Box Full of Murders (2025) being her debut for the … Continue reading #1313: Minor Felonies – A Box Full of Murders (2025) by Janice Hallett| The Invisible Event
Book Title -A Case of Life and LimbAuthor – Sally SmithGenre – Historical Crime FictionPublisher – Bloomsbury PublishingPublication Date – 17th July 2025⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Case of Life…| Wicked Witch's Blog
You don’t write as much as Edward D. Hoch without hitting the bull’s-eye a few times, so I’m finally doing what I should have done all along and starting the Dr. Sam Hawthorne series from the beginning, with this first tranche of 12 stories published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine between 1974 and 1978. The … Continue reading #1306: “Ain’t nothin’ like this ever happened in Northmont afore!” – Diagnosis: Impossible: The Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne [ss] (2000) by Edward D...| The Invisible Event
I have an undeniable fondness for the work of Edgar Allan Poe, having looked at his tales of ratiocination on this blog as well as written a novel inspired by one of his most famous stories. So Beyond Rue Morgue [ss] (2013), a collection of stories edited by Paul Kane and Charles Prepolec purporting to … Continue reading #1303: “Why ask for my deductions if you seek only to dismiss them?” – Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe’s First Detective [ss] (2013) ed. Paul Ka...| The Invisible Event
A second Sherlock Holmes pastiche from the pen of Robert J. Harris, The Devil’s Blaze (2022) sees him once again take his cue from the Second World War setting of the Basil Rathbone films rather than Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Victorian milieu. As with his debut in this series, A Study in Crimson (2020), we … Continue reading #1295: No Police Like Holmes – The Devil’s Blaze: Sherlock Holmes 1943 (2022) by Robert J. Harris| The Invisible Event
“My New Year’s resolution is to murder a man I’ve never met” — thus does Basil Palmer lay out his intentions at the very start of his journal in Hemlock Bay (2024) by …| The Invisible Event