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Although this heading probably looks a bit obscure to many of you, I’m hoping some readers will make the link between the new series of detective novels featuring the Thursday Murder Club and their multi-talented author and personality, Richard Osman, who has jointly presented the BC TV quiz show, Pointless, with Alexander Armstrong, since 2009.

Apologies if you’re tired of hearing about Scottish authors of detective fiction but here is what I think is another good one! As the heading says, Abir Mukherjee was a practising accountant before he started writing his books about India in the early 1920s when Britain still ruled and India was part of the Empire.

I think you’ll find this a rather strange suggestion when I introduce you to Martha Grimes but, perhaps even more so, when I tell you who introduced her to me. So, to begin with the latter part of that, I’ve already said in a post or two how much I like John Sandford and his

Harry McCoy is the creation of yet another Scottish author, this time by the name of Alan Parks. Unlike a number of the authors I come across, I know exactly how I discovered him and Harry – it was a recommendation on my Kindle from Amazon as something they thought I might like and I

First of all, some of you might be pleased to hear that this post is not about a Scottish author! Don’t get too excited, though, because I’ve got another couple coming up shortly! The books and the character I’m writing about here are the creation of a former London solicitor called Damien Boyd and they

I wrote this post some time ago, at just about the same time as I was launching the blog and it covers a bit of ground which I have subsequently written about in more specific posts since then. However, I was looking at it again and I think there is perhaps enough new material in

Now, I’ll say right from the start that Quintin Jardine’s Bob Skinner books will not be to everyone’s taste! I like them because the author is a good story teller and the books are, for the most part, set in Edinburgh. Bob Skinner is a tough senior policeman and the author introduced him in 1993

I don’t do too many book reviews and, in fact, I wrote this one quite a few months ago, just after I had finished the book. At the time, I felt it was such a good example of all the things I like in a book that it was worth a post! That is a

I set a lot of store by the characters in the books I read and that’s why I like reading series of books about characters I’ve grown to like. However, I do read a lot of stand-alone stories as well, usually written by my favourite authors, but also on the back of a recommendation. Sometimes

I’ve already posted about Christopher Brookmyre and my favourite character of his, the journalist, Jack Parlabane, and I think he is a top-class Scottish writer despite some of his books possibly being for a younger audience than me. However, he also writes, along with his wife, Marisa Haetzman, under the pseudonym of Ambrose Parry. My