Anthony Powell’s ninth book in his series, A Dance to the Music of Time (1968) is the third to deal with the narrator Nick Jenkins’s tim...

It may be two years since I read the last André Warner thriller, The Man Who Hunted Himself , but it doesn’t matter, I quickly re-en...

Michael Pearce's cozy crime novel (2009) captures the period of Naples just prior to the First World War (1913): ‘Things spill...

This is the annual Sherlock Holmes special, which appears every October. We begin with Michael Mallory’s tale ‘The Inimitable A...

I was greatly saddened to learn that Charlie died last week from pancreatic cancer. We'd been distant writing friends for about a decade...

Megan Abbott’s third novel, Queenpin (2007) surpasses her excellent previous books, The Song Is You (2005) and Die A Little (2007). Sh...