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This massive history of crime fiction and its creators, from William Godwin to PD James, is brilliant, rich and absorbing. It's especial...

I loved this latest entry in the Rivers of London series, with Detective Constable Peter Grant on the trail of a vengeful angel linked to th...

Oh what joy, a Rivers of London adventure we could share with the ten year-old as we drove down to my mum's for the Easter weekend. We t...

This extraordinary, meticulously researched book is an essential read just now. Belton charts the rise and rise of Vladimir Putin from his e...

Jeremy Phillips and I discuss the merits - if there are any - of the 2006 remake of The Wicker Man on the latest episode of the Cinema Limbo...

The fourth Jackson Brodie novel is another melancholy tale exploring the long shadows cast by murder, grief and loss. There are several inte...

What a delight to be back in the world of Rivers of London , two years after I read the novella October Man  and little more than that since...

"This Sherlock Homes story was published in 1890 so contains actions and attitudes reflective of the Victorian era in which it was ...

After Case Histories  comes One Good Turn , which brings former soldier, cop and private detective Jackson Brodie out of retirement, ruin...

We begin with three distinct tragedies. First, in 1970, a three-year old disappears from her family home. Then, in 1994, a teenager with ...

I was given this 2017 book after chatting with a friend about Andrew O'Hagan's 60,000 word essay on the Grenfell fire , which bri...

The new issue of medical journal the Lancet Psychiatry boasts my review of the film Mr Holmes starring Ian McKellen as an aged and decay...

On 2 November, I'll be at Doctor Who Day at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea , talking about the beginning of Doctor Who in 1963 and...

This week, I finished Dashiell Hammett 's The Thin Man (1932) , a gripping, twisty thriller in which a former detective comes back to ...

It's grey and rainy in Glasgow today, so rather than gadding about at museums and getting a tan, I've stayed in my hotel room workin...

I'm not very practical. I can wire a plug, wash the dishes and reach things from high shelves, but that's where my skills come to an...

Watched episode 5.10 of The Wire earlier, and so have finished the series. It's a justly lauded, extraordinary show 'pon which many...

This afternoon I was in drizzly, grey Greenwich to discuss a potential project. I lived in Greenwich 2002-04 and got married in the Queen...