I know that’s pretty obvious but, on the other hand, if we always stick to our tried and trusted crime writers, most importantly, we won’t discover any new jewels but, at the same time, we probably won’t come across any poor ones. That’s fine, I guess, because it also means we won’t waste our money […]

You know from what I’ve written previously that I am a big fan of Harlan Coben and I have enjoyed all his books, especially those featuring Myron Bolitar. I have also read all Lee Child’s Jack Reacher and enjoyed them all, to a greater or lesser extent, although I did say in an earlier piece

I have to be honest and say that I can’t remember how I found Malcolm Mackay’s Glasgow Trilogy of ‘The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter’, ‘How a Gunman Says Goodbye’ and ‘The Sudden Arrival of Violence’, as well as another three novels, all set in the same nasty environment of gangland Glasgow, The Night the

Very early in my blog, I wrote a couple of posts about Robert B Parker and I referred to him as the godfather of detective fiction, citing him as the inspiration behind many of the writers we enjoy today. He died much too young in 2010 but, thankfully, a number of other detective fiction authors

That statement is pretty much true in that I don’t know exactly how I came across John Lescroart, his books and his great characters but, at the same time, that doesn’t seem to be uncommon with my reading! As I’ve said in a few posts, as I have read more and more in this genre,

Why have I grouped these two authors together? There are differences between them and, in the case of Craig Russell in particular, the differences are quite pronounced as he has quite a wide-ranging repertoire. Gordon Ferris has also written in different subject areas but I am looking at them together as there are some quite

One of the main things I would like to achieve with my blog is to introduce you to authors and characters that you may not have heard of but might like to try and I hope I have done that already. Of course, I also want to know what you think of them and how

Robert Goddard’s first novel ‘Past Caring’ was published in 1986 and I think that it must have been shortly after that when my wife and I discovered him. He has since published more than twenty books and they tend to come out every eighteen months to two years. Strangely, he fits the profile of a

I’ve really no idea how I came across Jake Needham but I bought the first of his books in 2014. I imagine the route was through a search of ‘if you like books by…try this’ but I’m afraid I just can’t remember. He spends a lot of his time in Asia and his stories are

As they used to say on Monty Python’s Flying Circus (Google it!), ‘and now for something completely different’! I really don’t remember how I discovered Martin Walker and his local French policeman, Bruno Courreges, but someone must have introduced me to him and I am very grateful that they did! The only thing that worries