Stories of what runs beneath the surface…
Dominique Gracia is a researcher of Victorian literature and culture, and a writer of short fiction and other bits and bobs. She is fascinated by things that come up again and again, and run below the surface, from Greek mythology to cultural tropes that just won’t die, and the emotions that carry them along.
Her first book-length collection of short stories—The Meinir Davies Casebook—is out now. She also has various flash and short fiction pieces published in journals and around the internet, and she would love for you to read them: Other writing. You can also read more about Dominique’s research, which helped inform The Casebook, or her reviews of detective fiction right here (just scroll!), or follow along with her reading projects (Victorian and not).
You can support Dominique via Ko-Fi, where you can read some of her flash fiction and listen to short story readings. You can also find Dominique on many of the usual places.

You can also read an interview with Meinir on Books By Women.

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Detective and crime fiction reviews
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Eve Armstrong – Murder By Theory (2022)
Review I bought this a few years ago when talking about Dark Academia and detective fiction with a colleague at UCL. I’d particularly been hunting for something that involved economists,… Read more ⇢
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Amy Gentry – Good as Gone (2016)
Review I enjoyed this as an audiobook a few years ago, when my child was very small and it was useful to have things to listen to so that I… Read more ⇢
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Craig Robertson – Murderabilia (2016)
Review The reason I still love physical libraries is because they make it so easy to wander slowly through a selection of books and pick up something spontaneously that comes… Read more ⇢
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Alice Slater – Death of a Bookseller (2023)
Review I was really excited about the premise of this book, and the initial introductions to its apparently diametrically opposed characters—Roach (aka Brogan) and Laura—fizzed with the promise of tension.… Read more ⇢
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Eds. Katherine Stansfield and Caroline Oakley – Cast a Long Shadow (2022)
Preamble If you like mythologically informed (crime-adjacent) fiction, you can also check out my Dear Damsels story, ‘In Darkness’ as well as some of the stories in this collection, available… Read more ⇢
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Stuart Turton – The Devil and the Dark Water (2020)
Review I was somewhat slow to this, reading it a few years after it came out. Setting up a master detective requires a deftness of touch; go too far, and… Read more ⇢
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Claire Evans – The Graves of Whitechapel (2020)
Review Having written a collection of short stories about detective work in the Victorian East End, this is of course going to catch my eye, which it did eventually on… Read more ⇢
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Victoria Dowd – The Supper Club Murders (2022)
Review This is the third in the Smart Women series, featuring mother and daughter Ursula and Pandora Smart (in-world, supposedly not their real names) and aunt Charlotte, plus some of… Read more ⇢
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Agatha Christie – Cards on the Table (1936)
Review I am slowly picking my way through more of the twentieth-century greats’ novels, and Christie’s Poirot novels are excellent travelling companions. Compact and concise, this one was great for… Read more ⇢
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Frank Tallis – Mortal Mischief (2005)
Preamble Check out my short story collection of cosy mysteries featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! Or, if you’re a particular Edinburgh enthusiast, try my novella Researcher Wanted, available on… Read more ⇢












