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Harold Terence Sneed is found in his parlour in Borough, stabbed through the ribs. The irony is that he’d just conducted a seance; one of th...

She wakes to the sound of singing, and finds herself in the dark. To begin with, she doesn't have a name or any memory - but Mara has be...

I greatly enjoyed this shrewd, wide-ranging exploration of the seven-part Doctor Who serial variously known as Serial B, The Mutants or Th...

It took some time to read this long, densely written “new history of humanity”, as it is subtitled, but this is a volume to savour not to ru...

For my recent 50th birthday, the Dr and the children took me to Pompeii — a trip I’ve wanted to make since studying the subject at school. T...

I have a short story in the forthcoming anthology What The World Needs Now: Mystery Stories Inspired by the Music of Burt Bacharach , edited...

This is a novelisation of the first series of the TV drama of the same name, created by Mark Gatiss and co-written by Matthew Sweet (both of...

I’ve been blown away by this extraordinary, powerfully moving book, having met the author briefly at an event earlier this year. The subtitl...

The wife and children were generous with my annual appraised (or "Father's Day"). I got a lie in, a badge of a smiley fried eg...

The first volume of Space Security Service is out today from Big Finish. This new audio series, which I produced, comprises three adventure...

We know from the off that Bartholomew “Brat” Farrar is a crook. He’s a young American hustler, sometimes working as a groom or blacksmith, o...

This is ideal holiday reading, a fast-moving, relatively concise murder mystery from the creator of Broadchurch and in a similar style. It b...

I’ve completed Part One of this enormous, comprehensive and highly readable volume, the 350 pages that cover production of the 1960s TV seri...

"'If this were a detective story, he'd be the murderer for a certainty, though,' said Barnes. 'They always pick on the ...

Jackson Brodie, ex-soldier, ex-copper and stalwart private detective, is an unlikely participant in a murder-mystery evening put on by some ...

Nancy Graham, 26 year-old magazine writer and the narrator of this novel, is out for dinner with her fiancee Donald when they bump into Susa...