Category: Detective and crime fiction
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Dominique Gracia 