Detective Fiction

Dec 1, 2007

Now & Then by Robert Parker

Parker's Spenser novels, the 35th of which was just released in October, are easy to read and combine a Dashiell Hammett-esqe mystique with modern surroundings. more...

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Apr 17, 2008

Jonathan and Faye Kellerman

By: Blaire Van Hecke

Between them, mystery writers Jonathan and Faye Kellerman have authored over 40 detective fiction novels that keep readers wanting more. more...

Jan 21, 2008

The Death of Dalziel

By: Colin Harvey

A review of Mid-Yorkshire CID's Fat Man and Peter Pascoe's latest mystery, in a series that started with A Clubbable Woman and has been made into a BBC television series. more...

Nov 8, 2007

Graham Hurley: Turnstone

By: Philip Northeast

Well-known TV documentary producer Graham Hurley enters the world of crime fiction with mixed results. more...

Oct 16, 2007

Ian Rankin's Exit Music

By: Elizabeth Gregory

A review of the final book in Ian Rankin's series of Edinburgh-based crime novels featuring John Rebus. more...

Oct 12, 2007

John Harvey and Charlie Resnick

By: Philip Northeast

Prolific writer John Harvey has freed his faithful protagonist Charlie Resnick from the confines of his own stereotype, remerging as Frank Elder in Harvey's latest works. more...

Sep 21, 2007

The Naming of the Dead

By: Colin Harvey

The sixteenth novel about the hard-boiled Edinburgh detective sees him rubbing shoulders with the great and the good at the G-8 conference in what is Rankin's best yet. more...

Aug 28, 2007

Sherlock Holmes and Gothic

By: Jem Bloomfield

The Hound of the Baskevilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle, shows the great scientific detective Sherlock Holmes in a novel with distinctly Gothic tendencies. more...

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